Aycock family. Aycock famiy papers, 1869-1951.
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Aycock famiy papers, 1869-1951.
Correspondence, financial papers, and personal papers of James Henry Aycock (1829-1895), his wife, Henrietta L. Brogdon Aycock, their children Bettie, Eugene E[dwin] (1869-1953, also referred to as "Bub" or "Bubber"), and William T[homas] (1869-1928, "Boy"), Nora, Nora's husband, Frank Covington, and his sister, Hallie Covington, relating to her activities as a missionary in Korea. Includes business papers re family's mercantile firm, James H. Aycock & Sons, Wedgefield, S.C., and rented timber lands in S.C., N.C., and Ga., for extraction of turpentine and resin; unbound volume, 19 Jan. - 10 Dec. 1869, consisting of weekly time reports and pay roll of employees for turpentine farm in Ga.; 4 letters, 25-28 Sep. and 13 Nov. 1876, Frank E. Thomas to James Henry Aycock, re rioting, actions taken to protect black employees, and voting in gubernatorial election; detailed reports from Aycock's foremen, Frank E. Thomas, A.W. Brown, and A.E. Broadway, supervising timber operations at Stono Farm, Sumter, Wrights Bluff, and Millett, re local economic conditions and labor supply. Personal correspondence includes financial accounts documenting costs and supplies used in constructing of Aycock's home; information on education of Aycock children at Bingham School in North Carolina, South Carolina College, Charlotte Female Institute, College for Women at Columbia, and Bingham Military Academy in Mebanesville, N.C. Lletter, 1 Dec. 1884, Sumter, Katie E. Brown to John Henry Aycock, Sr., re return of her abducted stepson through Aycock's good offices; letter, 4 Apr. 1894, re Darlington Dispensary Riots and Gov. Tillman's "unbridled abuse of authority"; inventory of Aycock's personal property, 3 Jan. 1896; 2 letters, 11 Sep and 3 Nov. 1896, Wedgefield, H[enrietta] L. Aycock to son Bob, [Asheville, N.C.], re seizure of whiskey and procedure used by African American voters for the presidential election, Nov. 1896. Letters, 1905-1940, re Bettie Aycock's activities in the Presbyterian Church and Ladies Missionary Society; letters from William T. Aycock, studying law at Columbia University, New York City.
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