Thomas George Walton papers, 1779-1897 [manuscript].

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Thomas George Walton papers, 1779-1897 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23765413

The collection includes family correspondence, 1830s to 1890s, deeds, indentures, and other papers of Thomas George Walton, his wife Eliza Murphy Walton, and other members of the Walton and Murphy families, all of Morganton, Burke County, N.C. Included are letters from John H. Murphy, student at the University of North Carolina, 1843-1847; correspondence between Thomas George Walton and Eliza Murphy Walton while he was serving with the Confederate Army in Virginia and Tennessee; earlier land grants, deeds, and family letters; postwar correspondence of Walton concerning law and politics; and a typed transcription of his historical sketch of Burke County, N.C., containing biographies of early pioneers. Correspondents include Tod R. Caldwell, Kemp P. Battle, and Bishop Theodore B. Lyman.

About 500 items (1.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7120681

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Walton, Thomas George, 1815-1905

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Caldwell, Tod Robinson, 1818-1874

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