Eliza L. Magruder diary, 1846-1857.

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Eliza L. Magruder diary, 1846-1857.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244205266

In the diary she comments on local social events and amusements, visiting friends, births and deaths, and treatment, care of, and unrest of slaves. She also records the weather, illness and death among slaves and friends and medical attention she provided, as well as her reading, sewing, and religious life, including comments on minsters and sermons she heard. In addition, she relates her aunt's activities in running the plantation after Joseph Dunbar's death.

Partial microfilm reel.6 microfiche ; 11 x 15 cm.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Magruder, Eliza L.

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Young woman of Locust Plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, the home of her aunt and uncle, Olivia Magruder Dunbar and Joseph Dunbar (d. 1846). From the description of Eliza L. Magruder diary, 1846-1857. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244205266 ...

Shields, Joseph D. (Joseph Dunbar), 1820-1886

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Joseph Dunbar Shields of Natchez, Miss., was a judge, legislator, planter, and author. He was born in Jefferson County, Miss., to William Bayard Shields (b. 1778), first justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court and participant in Mississipi's territorial politics, and Victoire Benoist (b. 1791). In 1841, Shields married Elizabeth Fitzhugh Conway (d. 1883); they had seven children. Joseph Dunbar Shields Jr. (1842-1863) served under J.E.B. Stuart in the Civil War and was k...