Thode family. Thode family papers, 1845-1935.
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Thode family papers, 1845-1935.
Consisting of letters, notes, receipts, business and legal papers of the Thode family, and especially Henning Peter Thode (1816-1863) and his wife, Catharine Dorothea Stelling Thode (1820-1896), documenting their experience as settlers in upstate S.C., as part of the German Colonization Society in 1850. Family correspondence, consisting of Civil War letters of H.P. Thode as a lieutenant in the 12th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, ca. 1861-1863, some letters written in German to his wife, but also from members of the Stelling family in Charleston, S.C., and Misselwarden, Hanover, Germany, and from children, Eide Thode (d. 1873) and Lena Thode; letters from John Hanning Wuhrmann, Charleston, S.C., first president of the German Colonization Society; and manuscripts signed by Dietrich Biemann, George Cordes, John M. Hencken, John H. Kleinbeck, Hermann Knee, John H. Ostendorff, Martin C. Wendelken, and other Walhalla settlers. Also includes document, 7 Oct. 1850, naturalization certificate issued to Henning Peter Thode; receipt, 16 Apr. 1857, documenting H.P. Thode's purchase of two shares of stock in the Blue Ridge Railroad Company; receipt, 7 Sept. 1857, for subscription to Keowee Courier; document, 21 Aug. 1865, certificate of allegiance to the federal constitution and union, signed by C. D[orothea] Thode. Broadside listing German immigrants aboard the "Bremer Shiff GAUSS" that sailed from Bremen, Germany, to Charleston, S.C., in Oct. 1867; "Conduct and Scholarship" reports, 1838-1873, Newberry College, Walhalla, issued to John "Thodie"; "Character and Standing" report, [1871], for "Etta Thoda" from principal Annetta S. Goodman, Shady Hill Select School, Walhalla; undated property chart showing lots for sale in the Falls Mill and West Union sections of Pickens District; and account book, 1861-1867, including military muster records. Postmortem agreement of the children of Joseph Fricks regarding the settlement of his estate and provision for their mother, who should "be allowed to reserve one cow and calf, the hogs fowls and Such household furniture as She may select. And 12 months provisions furnished her."
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