Antebellum business and legal documents, and Civil War letters from the home front include sale bill, 2 Apr. 1829-2 Jan. 1830, from estate of Allen Saxon, administered by Hugh Saxon; petition from James Jeffries, administrator of estate of Nathaniel Jeffries, to the Court of Ordinary, 28 Mar. 1842; and sale bill, 20 March 1848, estate of Joshua Franks. Civil War items include letters, 19 July 1864, Maria D. Noland, Mt. Air, to Mrs. Davis, expressing sympathy upon death of William and fearing that her own son Jamie may have died; and 6 Jan. 1865, J.G. Long, near Adams Run, S.C., to John D. Long, fearing that Sherman would plunder South Carolina and inquiring about slaves recently purchased. Post-Civil War items include letter, 11 Nov. 1882, South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, Columbia, to Mrs. M.E. Davis, Cross Keys, Union County, forwarding receipt for expenses of Thomas E. Davis; and boarder's agreement, 21 Sept. 1896, Union County, Cross Keys Township, between T.M. Burnett and Miss Sophronia Whitmire, indicating that Burnett had rented from B.G. Wilburn "part of the Cross Keys Tract of Land and ... part of the Brick dwelling house." Twentieth-century items include "Tribute of Respect from Cross Keys Lodge No. 137, A.F.M.," 8 July 1916, in memory of S.C. legislator B.G. Wilburn (1847-1916); letter, 26 Apr. 1939, from Allan Nicholson, Union, congratulating Mrs. J.G. Long on her ninetieth birthday and the stance she had taken in 1888 with her husband, Sheriff James Gideon Long, to protect an African-American from a lynch mob; and letter, 25 Jan. 1944, from F.M. Easterlin, state president, Old Age Pension Association of S.C., to W.C. Wilburn, Union, announcing meeting at the Union County courthouse. Also including undated broadside, "Claude Wilburn For Sheriff"; undated campaign card with image of J.G. Long; 26 Jan. 1921 issue of Union's Progress newspaper announcing the death of J.G. Long; 6 undated photographs of J.G. Long, John Duck Long, and unidentified persons; and 2 anonymous mercantile account books, 1845-1846 and 1850-1852, with Union County names.
