Samuel C. Bonner and family papers, 1772-1886 (bulk 1808-1886).

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Samuel C. Bonner and family papers, 1772-1886 (bulk 1808-1886).

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Papers include family correspondence reflecting ante-bellum social conditions in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Letters address topics including educational activities at the University of Alabama; news of the Civil War, especially in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; the Federal occupation of Ouachita, Rapides and Saint Mary Parishes; social conditions in New Orleans and Morehouse Parish during Reconstruction; and freedman and white agricultural laborers in post-bellum Louisiana. Letters are chiefly to Eliza A. Bonner from her sons William and John. The collection contains legal documents and other items (1772-1820) related to the settlement of the estate of John Bonner, father of Samuel C. Bonner.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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University of Alabama

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Bonner, John, d. ca. 1820.

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Bonner, Eliza A.

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Bonner, Samuel C.

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Samuel C. Bonner was a cotton planter of Pickens County, Alabama. He was the son of John Bonner, a plantation owner of Crowen County, South Carolina, and was married to Eliza A. Bonner. Samuel and Eliza had four children: William, John M., Samuel Lafayette, and Margaret. William was a captain in the Confederate Army; John M. was a second lieutenant. John M. Bonner graduated from the University of Alabama, 1857. William and Samuel Lafayette Bonner both had medical training and practiced medicine....

Bonner, John, 1931-

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Bonner, William, fl. 1848-1877.

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