Archive Record
Images

Metadata
Title |
Papers (Bryan Family) |
Description |
Letters of the Bryan and associated families of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Most are written to Tennessee "Tennie" Bryan and come from friends, relatives, and ardent male admirers. Two correspondents write during their Civil War Confederate service and a cousin, Fannie Parkhurst, writes from Vermont. Fannie also writes to her cousin Byron in Illinois about local news and her studies, schoolteaching, social activities and abhorrence of intemperance; she gossips about local courtships and mentions Byron's brother Sherman, who she would marry after Byron's death in Union service during the Civil War. Includes the 1832 will of James Adams of Montgomery County bequeathing land to Tennie's parents; he also recommends the sale of one of his enslaved African Americans, "Jo," to a certain buyer or to such other buyer as Jo may choose. |
Collection |
Manuscripts & Folklife Archives |
Object Name |
Correspondence |
Date |
1832 |
Year Range From |
1832 |
Year Range To |
1874 |
Other Number |
SC 3583 |
People |
Adams, James, d. 1832 Bryan, Lovett B., b. 1804 Bryan, Martin William, 1832-1897 Bryan, Ned W. Bryan, Tennessee H. "Tennie," 1840-1927 Flowers, George Jones, Thomas B., 1834-1864 Parkhurst, Byron Waterbury, 1829-1862 Parkhurst, Fannie Wright, 1841-1913 |
Search Terms |
Civil War, 1861-1865 Courtship Montgomery County, TN Poetry Shelbyville, TN Slavery Teachers Temperance Tennessee Vermont Weaving Wills |
Finding Aids |
For finding aid click here - http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4914/ |
Catalog Number |
SC2021.2.4 |
Dates of Creation |
1832-1874 |
Extent |
1 folder. 34 items. Originals. |
Number of Images |
1 |