Lesley family. Papers of the Norris and Thomson families, 1816-1977.
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Papers of the Norris and Thomson families, 1816-1977.
Family correspondence and business papers of the Norris and Thomson families, in particular Col. Jesse Ward Norris (1817-1899) and his son-in-law, John White Thomson (1843-1924); correspondence of Lesley family of Abbeville District, related to Norris and Thomson families by marriage of J.W. Norris to Anna Louisa Lesley (b. 1828) in 1853; letters from family members in Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas; letters of J.W. Norris as student at Pendleton Manual Labor School, 1835-1836, and University of Virginia, 1839-1840, and as attorney in Pickens, S.C.; and letters and school papers, 1869-1871, of Martha ("Mattie") Lesley Norris (1854-1926) as student at Due West Female College. Also contains bills, receipts, and correspondence re James Thomson's store at Storeville Post Office, Anderson District, S.C., with letters from Hamburg firms of Watt & Bowie and E.B. & J.P. Benson and Charleston firms of Fleming, Gilliland & Co. and Boyce & Horry; document, 22 Nov. 1829, appointing John Thomson postmaster at Thomson's Store, Pendleton District; financial records, 1854-1872, Varennes Presbyterian Church; minutes, 1877-1879, and financial and membership records, 1873-1882, Anderson County Grange No. 71; document, 9 Feb. 1885, appointing Jesse Ward Norris overseer of public roads, Varennes Township, Anderson County; bicycle leases, c. 1900, of W.D. Simpson & Co., Anderson; letter, 19 May 1900,Abbeville, Ward Thomson to Mattie Lesley Norris Thomson, re his work with Electric Light & Power Co., Anderson; and undated printed circular advertising Seneca Mineral Springs. Also includes "North and South," July 1850, a pro-secession address delivered in Greenwood by A.M. Reid; manuscript, c. 1864-1865, roll of Co. C, 1st Regiment, South Carolina State Troops; appointments, rolls, and miscellaneous records of 4th Regiment, South Carolina Militia; minutes of Survivors Association of Orr's Regiment of Rifles; and letters, programs, and souvenirs from Confederate reunions documenting J.W. Norris' involvement in Confederate veterans movement. Bound volumes include cyphering books, 1829-1830 and undated, of J.W. Norris; account book, 1840-1869, for Thomson's Store, Varennes, Anderson District; and volume, 1851-1863, containing militia records of Beat No. 2, 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Militia, including a list of those exempt from duty, a map showing boundaries, and an 1861 census roll of males living within boundaries.
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