Foxhall family papers, 1857-1936.

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Foxhall family papers, 1857-1936.

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Chiefly letters to Mary Lindsay Hargrave Foxhall from her children and other family members. Included are letters, 1862, about the yellow fever epidemic in Wilmington, N.C.; letters, 1896-1897, about McCoy's life at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School in Greensboro, N.C., and her teaching career in Rocky Mount, N.C.; and letters, June and July 1897, from summer school in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina; letters from Francis Dancy Foxhall in Wharton County, Tex., 1895-1896, and in Greenville, N.C., 1909-1910 and 1919, where he was selling general merchandise and tobacco; letters and enclosures, 1896-1897, about home remedies, especially those aimed at enhancing virility, that William Lindsay Foxhall investigated, and throughout the 1900s from him describing life as a railroad engineer for the Southern Railway in Virginia; letters in 1900 from Susie Baker Foxhall at St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C.; letters in 1901 from John Hargrave Foxhall and other documents relating to his actions in the Spanish American War and his death in Manila; and fairly detailed letters, 1917-1919, documenting the activities of Haywood Parker Foxhall, officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.

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Mary Lindsay Hargrave Foxhall (1840-1911) of Tarboro, N.C., and her children John Hargrave (d. 1901), who fought in the Spanish American War and died in Manila; Francis Dancy (1868-1924), general and tobacco merchant of Wharton County, Tex., and Greenville, N.C.; Florida, who taught school, and around the turn of the century, married Dr. E. M. McCoy of Bristow, N.C.; Edwin Dancy (1872-1958), cotton and general merchant of Greenville; William Lindsay (1879-1939), engineer for the Southern Railway...