Papers of Amanda Sarah Boyd [manuscript] 1860 (1880-1903) 1983.

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Papers of Amanda Sarah Boyd [manuscript] 1860 (1880-1903) 1983.

The papers consist chiefly of letters to Boyd, of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, from various Vick nieces and nephews in Lexington and Tanglewood, Texas. They discuss family news including births, illnesses, deaths, and marriages, as well as school, quiltings, church meetings, the weather, cotton, and other crops, and local crimes. The Farmer's Alliance, 1888, which family members joined, is also briefly mentioned. With the letters are genealogical charts and correspondence regarding the Vick and related Boyd, McDowell and Seale families.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7930167

University of Virginia. Library

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Boyd Family.

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Richey, Clarice R. Snead,

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Boyd, Amanda Sarah, 1833-1918

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Seal family.

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McDowell family,

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Richey, Homer Gilmer, 1908-

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National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union

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