Weeks family papers, 1771-1979.

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Weeks family papers, 1771-1979.

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This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Weeks family of Louisiana. Included are handwritten and typed correspondence, social ephemera such as New Orleans carnival, commencement and debutante invitations, funeral notices, post cards, school papers, handwritten telegrams, photographs, legal and financial documents, recipes, genealogical information, poetry, newspaper clippings and other printed items. Photocopies and typed transcriptions accompany some of the documents.

4.5 linear feet (3 boxes and 2 oversized folders)

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Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8198020

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Weeks, David, 1786-1834

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David Weeks was a planter, plantation owner, and sugar manufacturer of New Iberia, La. The son of William Weeks and Rachel Hopkins Swayze, Weeks was born in Feliciana, Spanish West Florida, in 1786. He purchased Parc Perdu Plantation and assumed management of the Weeks family estate upon his father's death in 1819. In 1825 he purchased the site of Shadows on the Teche Plantation in New Iberia but did not move into the completed house until 1834, the year of his death. Weeks owned a ...

Weeks family.

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The Weeks family of New Iberia, La., owned land on Grand Côte Island (later named Weeks Island) obtained by David Weeks (1786-1834) as a grant from the Spanish government. The plantation home named Shadows-on-the-Teche was completed there in 1834. Families allied with the Weeks family included the Thruston, Glassell, Palfrey, Gorham, Magill, Conrad, Hall, Collins, and Swayze families. William Glassell Weeks (1864-1958) was a Louisiana pecan grower. His daughter, Lilly Weeks, married physician L...

Weeks, William Glassell.

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