Family papers, 1833-1902 (bulk 1840-1881).

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Family papers, 1833-1902 (bulk 1840-1881).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43957966

Primarily correspondence between various Croom Family members and their friends from 1840-1900. Of particular interest are the letters from Stephens Croom to his parents and sister during the Civil War. Also includes a journal kept by Stephens Croom during the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and student essays written by him at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1856-1859).

5.5 linear feet.

University of South Alabama, Marx Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7536401

University of South Alabama, Marx Library

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Marshall, Benjamin F., 1810-1885.

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Croom, Cicero Stephens, 1839-1883

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A prominent southern family orignailly from North Carolina, the Crooms settles in Quincy, Florida, in the 1830's. William Whitfield Croom was a cotton commission merchant and broker, real estate speculator, and plantation owner. Due to his business endeavors, the family lived in Georgia, New York, Mississippi, and Alabama prior to the Civil War. He and his wife, Julia Stephens Croom, has two children, Cicero Stephens Croom and Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy. Stephens ...

Croom, Julia Stephens, d. 1867.

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Croom, Mary Marshall, 1844-1909.

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Croom, William Whitfield, ca. 1814-1876.

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Bellamy, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Whitfield), 1837-1900

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Author and teacher. Born 17 April 1837, in Gadsden County, Fla., and educated at Spingler Institute, New York. Widowed during the Civil War, Bellamy taught in Eutaw and Gainesville, Ala., until 1877 and then in Mobile, Ala., until her death in 1900. She wrote under the pseudonym, Kamba Thorpe, between 1867 and 1874. Later novels and stories were publish under her own name. From the description of Papers, 1854-1900. (University of South Alabama). WorldCat record id: 43957937 ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Forney, John Horace, 1829-1902.

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John Horace Forney was a planter and a major general in the C.S.A. Army. The family resided in Jacksonville, Ala. From the description of Family photographs, [18--]-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145410141 ...