Markley family. Markley family papers, 1757-1936.
Title:
Markley family papers, 1757-1936.
Chiefly family correspondence, bills, and receipts re social activities, Civil War, and business as carriage manufacturers in Greenville County, S.C. Will, 8 July 1757, of Jacob Markley [typed copy];shipping documents, 5 Mar. and 14 Dec. 1833, re transport of several varieties of buggys and wagons and related hardware from New York City firms of Isaac Fryer and of Hubbell Strand and Co to John Markley in Charleston, S.C.; the letterhead of Hubbell Strand illustrated with an eagle and a ship. Letter, 10 Dec. 1861, from "Mother" [Rebecca M. Cox Markley], Marietta, Ga., to her son, Henry Chandler Markley, re health of various men in and out of Confederate military service, attendance at church, unusually warm weather, "I am sitting without fire," beginning of the season of Advent, and charitable contributions towards missionary work, "he read over the differnt amounts of money sent from the Confederate States. South Carolina was the largest contributor. I hope she will continue to be foremost in doing good. Mr. B[enedict] urges the people to give us as a duty, and a privilege, Economy must not commence in the Lord's House, the necessity is greater for us to work, and give, now while our beloved Country is distracted by War." Letter, 16 Aug. 1864, from James Tupper, Office of Auditor of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.), to Col. E.P. Jones, agent of S.C. at Richmond, Va., re military salaries: informing Jones that his salary would be $4000 and that of his assistants would be $3000 per year "from the first of July last." Three financial documents dating to 1865: 30 Nov. and 11 Dec. (New York and Baltimore, respectively) re payment of claims against Gower, Cox, Markley, and Company, and 6 Dec. 1865 (New York), re business transactions and statement of Maj. Norman W. Smith, Chief Inspector, Field Transport, 2nd District, Confederate States of America, that all contracts of Confederate government with Gower, Cox, Markley, and Company, were completed prior to Confederate surrender and that the materials used by the firm were not the property of the Confederate States; bankruptcy certificate, 31 Dec. 1868, of Thomas C. Markley issued during Reconstruction; and printed invitation for a social club in Charleston, S.C., reporting a meeting, 24 Jan. 1868, of the "How D'ye Do Club," founded 1867. Undated letter 22 Apr. [ca. 1850s?], Charleston, S.C., from R[ebecca] M. Markley to her daughter Julie, reporting on mutual friends, gifts of flowers, attendance at the opening of an expoisition, "we hoped the rain would hold off until the great Fair was over" and damage to crops from a late frost, "speaking of the Frost, Mr. Bonnell said it was a sad sight to see the Truck Farmers, some in tears on account of their loss... [later] some of the same men were tipsy topsy, poor fellows," reporting a gift of roses from a friend, along with "four varieties of Cineraria" and during a walk, "we saw a handsome pyramid of beautiful Pansies, several large... ones have been brought to the house, several [Noisette] Cloth of Gold Roses have been sent to me"; letter, 19 Sept. 1890, San Francisco (Calif.), from [Jonothan?] Markley to Henry, written on stationery of the Headquarters of the Democratic State Central Committee, re appointment of an executor in South Carolina and sale of family property. Letter, 25 July 1919, from Rob in Clearwater, Fla., to R.A. Sims in Atlanta, Ga., re payment of a note, and reporting health of his fruit crop; copy of letter, 10 Apr. 1936 (Greenville, S.C.), from Arthur G. Gower to George Ernest Bowman, Secretary of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, describing his father's birth, 1842, in Maine, his settlement in upstate South Carolina, the genealogy of the Gower family and that of the Buckner family, an African American slave family, (Harriett, her husband, and her children Martha and Eliza), and donating a slave insurance policy for Harriett Buckner; Gower includes another anecdote, circa 1856, in which a slave, Thomas Brier, requested that Gower's father purchase him to avoid a sale to Mississippi. Gower employed Thomas in the carriage producing trade and trained Thomas as a blacksmith.
ArchivalResource:
30 items.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42622565 View
View in SNAC
