Collection of Hickman and Weakley family papers, 1801-1885.

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Collection of Hickman and Weakley family papers, 1801-1885.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28599871

Papers, primarily correspondence, of five generations of the Hickman and Weakley families, including Col. Robert Weakley, Maj. John P. Hickman, Edwin Weakley Hickman, John Pryor Hickman, and Edwin Litton Hickman, all of Nashville, Tennessee. Includes 18 letters (1801-1822) to Col. Robert Weakley, mostly from members of the Locke family of North Carolina regarding taxes on their Tennessee land but also including family and neighborhood news of Rowan County; an 1836 letter from Weakley's nephew, William W. Fambro of Cahawba, Ala., discussing land in Texas, the price of slaves in Alabama, the hostility of the Creek Indians, and the Second Seminole War; and an 1840 tribute to Weakley's recently deceased son-in-law, Maj. John P. Hickman, a U.S. Army brigade quartermaster. Also includes 5 letters from Maj. Hickman to his wife, Narcissa Weakley Hickman, 1830-1836; one was written during his Second Seminole War service and another mentions political business, including comments about John Bell. Other items include an 1846 letter from Tennessee Gov. Aaron V. Brown to Edwin Weakley Hickman regarding raising a company of troops for the Mexican War; E.W. Hickman's 1850 law license; two volumes of Shakespeare excerpts copied in 1874 by John Pryor Hickman; and school themes and a scrapbook, ca. 1885, of Edwin Litton Hickman.

ca. 30 items and 3 volumes.

Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Bell, John, 1796-1869

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John Bell was one of antebellum Tennessee's most prominent politicians and an acknowledged leader of the state's Whig Party. The son of a farmer and blacksmith, Bell was born in Davidson County and graduated from Cumberland College in 1814. After his admission to the bar in 1816, he opened a law practice in Franklin in Williamson County. A year later, his political career began with his election to the state Senate, but he declined to seek reelection after one term. Perhaps because he recognized...

Hickman, Edwin Litton, 1875-1956.

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Locke, James, fl. 1801-1812.

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Brandon, Matthew.

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Cassedy, Charles, 1782?-1857 or 1858

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Hinton, William M.

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Fambro, William W.

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Haskell, William Thomson, 1837-1863

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Hickman, Edwin Weakley, 1821-1893.

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Locke, George, fl. 1822.

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Locke family.

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Hickman, John Pryor, b. 1846.

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Brown, Aaron V. (Aaron Venable), 1795-1859

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U.S. postmaster general, U.S. representative and governor of Tennessee. From the description of Aaron V. Brown correspondence, 1841-1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451766 ...

Locke, Robert, fl. 1807-1815.

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Hickman family.

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Weakley family.

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Hickman, John Pryor, 1788-1840.

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Weakley, Robert, 1764-1845.

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Hickman, Narcissa Weakley, 1798-1849.

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