Thomas Wier Davis papers, ca 1953-1999.

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Thomas Wier Davis papers, ca 1953-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34528550

Chiefly genealogical information and local history of the Laurens County, S.C., vicinity; including essays by Emma Watts Davis re history of Milton, S.C., and Wadsworth School for Poor Boys of Dunlaps Battalion (Milton, S.C.), ca. 1800; abstracts of wills for Laurens and Abbeville, S.C., and vicinity, newspaper clippings, and obituraries. Volumes include "John Davis-Annie Byrd Genealogy," with Bible records and epitaphs; genealogical records relating to the Ball, Conway, Davis, Dendy, Garlington, Jones, Pollard, Taylor, Thompson, Watts, and Williams families; collection also includes microfilm of a 1956 volume, Davis Family Chart (R.292). Also including inscriptions from upstate South Carolina cemeteries, copied by Davis ca. 1950s, together with letter of transmittal, 8 June 1999, from Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, and memorial tribute, 1996, to James Williams Davis, Sr. (1906-1996). Includes 4 bound volumes of typescripts, clippings, and other family history materials: volume 1: John Davis-Annie Byrd Genealogy. (ca. 60 sheets); volume 2: Thompson & Jones & Williams Family Records (ca. 40 sheets); volume 3: Watts, Dendy, Ball families. [ca. 75 sheets]; and volume 4: Conway family: Wales, Virginia, South Carolina, which is bound with a published booklet, by Harold King Bowen, Book of Adam : first edition of the Genealogy [1943]

4 items, 4 v., and 1 reel.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7364630

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Thompson family.

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Wadsworthville Poor School (Laurens District, S.C.)

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Jones family.

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Conway family.

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Davis, Thomas Wier, 1903-1964.

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Resident of Clinton, S.C.; researched genealogy of families in or near Laurens County, S.C. From the description of Thomas Wier Davis papers, ca 1953-1999. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 34528550 ...

Williams family.

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Bowen, Harold King, 1896-

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Dendy family.

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Davis, Emma Watts.

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Pollard family.

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Davis, James Williams, 1906-1996.

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Taylor family.

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Ball family.

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Watt family.

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Davis family.

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