Burn family papers, 1740-1974 bulk, 1854-1952.

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Burn family. Burn family papers, 1740-1974 bulk, 1854-1952.

Burn family papers, 1740-1974 bulk, 1854-1952.

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Letters re life of Henry C. Burn (1839-1912) and family in Society Hill, S.C.; letter, 11 May 1860, from Burn's mother, Susan Louisa Roberts Burn, re drowning of 27 people at Swift [Creek Baptist] Church on Boykin's mill pond near Camden, S.C.; letter, 12 Oct. 1856, noting erection of monuments for Mexican War soldiers in Camden; and letters re disunion sentiment in Darlington and Greenville with election of Abraham Lincoln. Burn's Civil War military service with 2nd Regiment, SC Volunteers, is documented in letters from Manassas, Flint Hill, Culpepper, Camp Longstreet, Manchester Hospital, Sharpsburg, Spotsylvania, and Rock Island Military Prison in Illinois; letter, 18 May 1863, re Stonewall Jackson's funeral; letter from Culpepper, Va., 11 June 1863, noting improprietous affection of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart for the ladies of Culpepper; typed manuscripts by R.K. Charles, "A Private Commands in Battle", 1896, and "Personal Recollections of the Battle of Fredericksburg," 1897. Post-war materials, primarily from Society Hill, including deeds, 1867, for Walnut Grove plantation, Beaufort County; printed broadside from Darlington, S.C., 24 May 1889, to "Brothers of the Farmers' Alliance," signed by E.B. Williamson, re price for cotton bagging; materials re Burn's election to the state legislature in 1890 and his position on prohibition; letters from Benjamin R. Tillman and his supporters, including Congressman John L. McLaurin, re politics, particularly popular approval of Burn's support of the farmers' movement; letter, 11 Mar. 1892, from Burn to Gov. Tillman requesting commutation of death penalty in a case of patricide; papers re Burn's appointment, 1893, as postmaster of Society Hill and his election, 1900, as Darlington County superintendent of education. Also including correspondence and other documents re family members studying at Furman University, Limestone Springs Female High School, and Winthrop College; printed tuition leaflet, 1872, re Benedict Institute, Columbia; printed broadside, 1904, "Submitted to the Fair-Minded Voters of Darlington County, S.C., by Henry C. Burn," re testing of white and black teachers; and 28 bound volumes, 1878-1952, records of the Darlington County school trustees. Includes correspondence with Burn's aunt, Martha Roberts Hartstene, re European travel, her residency in New York, and management of "Chinquapin Hill," an ancestral home in Beaufort County, S.C. Other correspondents include members of the related Blount, Roberts, Hartstene, McIntosh, Parker, Ellis, and Womack families; also J.J. Aull; George Just Brown; E.B.C. Cash; J.L. Coker; W.E.B. DuBois; W. S. Currell; David B. Johnson; John J. McMahan; M.B. McSweeney; P.H. Mell; J.L.M. Irby; O.B. Martin; and J.L. Cain, president of the State Colored Teachers' Assocciation.

7.5 linear ft. (5 cartons) and 28 volumes.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries