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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Marie Louise Du Brutz Reston Memoirs, #2404-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Adair M. McKoy of Wilmington, N.C., February 1942.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Autobiographies--Southern States.
• Children--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Du Brutz, Joseph.
• England--Description and travel.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Reston, Marie Louise Du Brutz.
• Southern States-- Biography.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Social life and customs.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

Marie Louise Du Brutz Reston (fl. 1850-1926), was the daughter of Joseph John Louis Du Brutz (b. 1814) and Kitty Beck Du Brutz. She spent her early life in Alabama and later lived in Wilmington, N.C.

The collection is a typed copy of the memoirs of Marie Louise Du Brutz Reston. Reston wrote about her early life as the daughter of Joseph Du Brutz, an antebellum Alabama doctor, of a trip to England in 1850, of her marriage to William Reston, of life in Wilmington, Fayetteville, and other locations in North Carolina during the Civil War, and of a few later events.