Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28413873

Chiefly family correspondence of Clara W. Adger Bowen and Orasmus Allan Bowen, and of her parents, Robert Adger and Jane Eliza Fleming, and genealogical information re the Adger, Bowen, Hard, Fleming, Taylor and Whilden families. Topics include family and community life in Pendleton and Charleston, S.C., the annexation of Texas, the Civil War, travels in London and Italy, and South Carolina hurricanes of 1854 and 1874. Includes manuscripts, 1775, British colonial post office seal for South Carolina; broadside, 1858, of Zion Presbyterian Church; printed manuscript, 7 Nov. 1876, certifying that the bearer voted for Gen. Wade Hampton"; and undated broadside, "Lee, The Hambletonian Stallion," a horse owned by Orasmus Allan Bowen. Also including letter, 29 Jan. 1862, re complaints by [James] Chesnut and [States Rights] Gist regarding [Nathan G.] Evans' mismanagement of their regiment. Photographs in Photograph Collection include Rivoli plantation, Eighteen Mile Creek at Rivoli, Janie E.A. Bowen, and Robert Adger by Charleston photographer, George S. Cook. Bound volumes include the journal of Clara Walton Adger (later Mrs. Orasmus Allan Bowen) re travels between Charleston and Woodburn plantation near Anderson and including an account of her visit on 26 Mar. 1854 to Fort Hill, the plantation home of John C. Calhoun; her diary, 1862 and 1 May 1865 - 6 Oct. 1870, chiefly at Ashtabula, Rivoli, and Charleston, re Federal troops in Pendleton area and life in Charleston during Reconstruction; "Guest Book," 1872-1901, for Rivoli and summerhome on Sullivan's Island, with an account of the "Gale of September 1874." Also including typescript, 1938, "Memories of Mountain View" by Frank E. Taylor, recalling his boyhood in the 1880s and the Charleston earthquake of 1886; genealogy, 1960, "The Adger Family in the Pendleton District, South Carolina"; genealogy, 1978, "The Taylor-Bowen-Adger-Hard-Ancestors."

232 items + 10 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7259128

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 19 Entities related to this resource.

Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sx7s5p (person)

Whilden family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b08bqh (family)

Taylor family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66n2dj4 (family)

Chesnut, James, 1815-1885

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gq75tw (person)

Camden, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, state legislator, and U.S. Senator. He held several military posts during the Civil War including a staff position in Richmond, Va. from 1862 to 1864. His wife was Mary Boykin Miller (1823-1886). From the description of James Chesnut papers, 1850-1900. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36794015 Attorney, plantation owner, South Carolina Representative, South Carolina Senator, and U.S. Senator. A native of Ca...

Cook, George S. (George Smith), 1819-1902

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn68wb (person)

Photographer, of Charleston, S.C. (1849-1880), and Richmond, Va. (1880-1902). From the description of George S. Cook papers, 1845-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78530117 ...

Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x35wmz (person)

Charleston, S.C. resident. From the description of Letters, [1805?]-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36321579 Charleston, S.C. author. The daughter of Edward Cotesworth Rutledge (1798-1860) and Rebecca Motte Lowndes (1810-1893), in 1851 she married Dr. St. Julien Ravenel (1819-1882). Her great grandmother Harriott Pinckney Horry (1749-1830) was the daughter of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) and Charles Pinckney (ca. 1699-1758). From the desc...

Bowen, Clara Adger, 1837-1915

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc1fv9 (person)

Evans, Nathan George, 1824-1868

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v70t4q (person)

Nathan George "Shanks" Evans (3 Feb. 1824-23 Nov. 1868) was a captain in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army; born in Darlington District, S.C.; 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy; assigned to the 1st Dragoons, with whom he served on the frontier in the West; following surrender, Evans taught school, 1866-1868 in Cokesbury (Greenwood County, S.C.) and in Alabama. From the description of Nathan George Evans papers, 1861-1...

Adger, Robert, 1814-1891

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt20cj (person)

Taylor, Frank E., 1873-1953.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w622686d (person)

Bowen, Orasmus Allan, 1823-1886

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66d974x (person)

Fleming family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67f2202 (family)

Adger, Jane Eliza Fleming, 1815-1871

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj00pz (person)

Zion Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mh1vkx (corporateBody)

Bowen, Clara Adger, 1837-1915

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc1fv9 (person)

Bowen, Orsamus Allan, 1823-1886

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bg63h0 (person)

Adger family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nd5713 (family)

Bowen family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mh6w86 (family)