Diary, 1872-1898.

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Diary, 1872-1898.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33018566

Bound and unbound volumes of Virginia Aiken's personal diary detailing household activities, including preparation of meals, rearing of children, relations with African Americans, hiring of household servants and agricultural laborers, and hospitality offered visitors, including persons fleeing charges associated with membership in Ku Klux Klan. Comments extensively on the dynamics of married life and the operation of a plantation in the years following the Civil War, as well as David Wyatt Aiken's travels and activities as a politician and activist on behalf of the grange movement and farmers' alliance; provides a detailed account of the final illness, medicinal use of morphine, and death of David Wyatt Aiken; also describes tremors and aftershocks associated with the 1886 earthquake.

13 v. (1 box)

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7347213

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

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Aiken, Virginia Carolina Smith, 1831-1900.

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Native of Abbeville District, S.C.; daughter of Joel and Isabella Elizabeth Marshall Smith; second wife of David Wyatt Aiken; diary documents events in area currently locataed in Greenwood County, S.C.; Aiken family lived at a house called Stony Point, which was Virginia Aiken's family homestead, until July 1873 when the family relocated to a "more humble house" at Cokesbury, S.C. From the description of Diary, 1872-1898. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018566 ...

Aiken, David Wyatt, 1828-1887

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National Grange

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Aiken family.

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