Paul D. Mazyck's identification card from World War I, 19th and 20th century Mazyck family papers, obituaries, and related items associated with this family who lived in Abbeville District, Union County, Cherokee County (S.C.) and elsewhere. Certificate of identity with portrait photograph, confirming that Paul D. Mazyck, age 28, was an officer in the U.S. Army with rank of 2nd lieutenant, issued 1 Nov. 1918; certificate, Mar. 1931, from Herbert Hoover to Paul D. Mazyck, Postmaster General of Gaffney, S.C [1931 oversize document filed as Pob - Mazyck family]; Mazyck's postal scales; letter, 18 Aug. 1942, written by Miss Grace Farr, cousin of Sara Mazyck, re her missionary work in China [vicinity of Taizhou and Yancheng] and her forced departure via Shanghai of all Westerners at the hands of the Japanese military, "In January the military police took over the large new building of our hospital for Japanese soldiers.... The ones in authority had accomplished, as far as our section of China was concerned, their object - to get all white faces out of Asia...."; her trip home to the U.S. included stops in Singapore and Mozambique (where the missionaries were to be exchanged for Japanese POW's), followed by a tour of Rio in Brazil prior to her anticipated arrival in New York. Farr's mailing address is identified as Jonesville, S.C. Earlier items consist of circular letter, 1 Dec. 1824, signed in print by J. I. Cohen, Baltimore, Maryland, regarding the Grand State Lottery sent to "The Postmaster," Church Hill, Abbeville dist, S. C.; undated Civil War letter [ca. early 1860s] from Fannie Livingston to "Mrs. Dr. Yarbrough" that tells of her father escorting the body of her brother and that of a friend home to S.C. from Richmond, reporting that on Saturday, Dr. Yarbrough "had succeeded in obtaining the remains of our dear Brother also that of Mr. White's," anticipating arrival on Thursday, the challenge of making funeral arrangements when two bodies would arrive at the same time, "our hearts are sad & heavy to night, as we can realize more keenly the loss of our loved one, how little did I think he would return a corpse"; obituary, 5 Jan. 1868, for Presbyterian minister John F. Livingston published in an unidentified newspaper of Abbeville, S.C.; 19th century pharmaceutical scales in case bearing label of a druggist in Abbeville, S.C.; handwritten funeral announcement, 4 Oct. 1894, for "Fanny," the young child of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mazyck, designed with a wide white ribbon tied in a bow; and photograph [ca.1918?] of Paul Mazyck in his uniform from World War I, printed on the fabric of a blue-star "service flag," mounted on red and blue fabric.
