Harrison, Henrietta Hardin Carter.

The Carter-Harrison Family Papers, including manuscripts from the Hardin, Carter, and Harrison families, is a rich resource of documents from one of the most well-connected families in the American South. This collection provides a look at the lives of some of Waco's most elite citizens from the American Civil War on into the late 1800s.

The connection between the Hardin-Carter-Harrison families was Henrietta Hardin Carter Harrison. Henrietta was born into the Hardin family and married James Henry Carter, who died in the Civil War. After the war, Henrietta married James Edward Harrison, who was also marrying for the second time. Many of Henrietta's letters survive in the collection, along with two diaries that she kept after the war.

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