Loula Hendon Donnell Papers, 1838-1960

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Loula Hendon Donnell Papers, 1838-1960

Loula Hendon Donnell was the daughter of Margaret Johnston Hendon and John Albert Hendon. She spent most of her life in Chapel Hill, N.C., where she married George Emsley Donnell in 1898. Letters, 1838-1841, from Robert W. Donnell in Missouri to his cousin Jane Donnell in Guilford County, N.C., discussing Mormons, Indians, and the Whig campaign of 1840; letters, 1858-1861, from W. T. Hendon of Newbern, Ala., to family members about domestic matters and war fever; diary (typed transcription, 4 p.) of Annie Olympia Donnell of Statesville and Salisbury, N.C., April to June 1865, describing Stoneman's raid; correspondence, 1897-1910, between Loula Hendon Donnell in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Cornelia Phillips Spencer and Julia S. Love in Cambridge, Mass., discussing family matters and the in Chapel Hill; letters by Lucy P. Russell of Rockingham, N.C., 1942 and 1960, about the in Chapel Hill; and a few other items. Log Cabin old days old days

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Loula Hendon Donnell was the daughter of Margaret Johnston Hendon and John Albert Hendon. She spent most of her life in Chapel Hill, N.C., where she married George Emsley Donnell in 1898. From the description of Loula Hendon Donnell papers, 1838-1960. WorldCat record id: 25696739 These letters span over a hundred years and concern three generations of people related to the Donnell family of Guilford and Orange Counties, North Carolina, including the Hendon famil...