Strong family. Strong family papers, 1768-1970.
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Strong family papers, 1768-1970.
Correspondence, business, legal, and land papers, plats, estate papers, obituaries, wills, broadsides, and genealogical information on the Strong and related families; 822 items and 21 vol. re education, politics, and Presbyterian churches of Chester County, S.C.; 21 volumes, 1850-1967, include account books, diaries, and pocket ledgers. Antebellum and Civil War items include notebook, 1857-1858, of Robert V. Lilley, of Greenville, S.C., and Augusta County, Va., re surveying technics; estate inventory, ca. 1860, of Jane Stone, listing names and ages of free and slave members of household; certificate of exemption, 28 June 1862, excusing C[hristopher] H. Strong from service in Confederate Army; and reproduction of pass for paroled prisoner, 10 Apr. 1865, Appomatox, Va., issued to Pvt. J. Strong, S.C. Volunteers, 6th Regt., Co. F. Other topics include accounts, 1896-1901, of Strong and McKeown, of Cornwall, S.C.; election, 1902, of Thomas C. Strong to S.C. House; teaching careers of various family members; genealogical information re Strong, Bailey, Bonner, Gaston, Gladney, Grier, Hood, Johnston, Lowry, McDill, McKee, McQuitson, Moffatt, Parks, Peden, Simonton, Weir, Wilson, and Wylie families; and list, 6 Jan. 1773, of immigrants from Ireland aboard ship, Lord Dunluce. Persons represented include Esther Elizabeth Strong (1885-1970), James Strong (1709-1779), Robert Strong (1752-1824), and Thomas Chisolm Strong (1859-1910); other topics represented include Blackstock, Columbia, Walhalla, and elsewhere in S.C., and Erskine and Due West Female College; University of Virginia; and epitaphs from Chester County, S.C.
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