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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Le Vert Family Papers #1472, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Edwin R. Dickenson of Tampa, Fla., in 1948, and purchased from Laurence Lingle of Fort Worth, Tex., in 1972.

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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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.
• Clay family.
• Clergy--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Families--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• French Americans--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Huntsville (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Le Vert family.
• Le Vert, Eugene V. (Eugene Verdot), 1795-1872.
• Le Vert, Francis John, 1790-1869.
• Le Vert, Henry Strachey, 1804-1864.
• Merchants--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Methodists--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Millwood (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Mobile (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Real property--Alabama.
• Walton family.
• Withers family.

Claude Le Vert of Alabama was a French immigrant who served in the American Revolution.

The collection consists of correspondence, chiefly 1815-1869, among Claude Le Vert's extended, but closely knit family. Included are Le Vert's three sons: Francis John Le Vert, merchant of Huntsville Ala.; Eugene V. Le Vert (d. 1875), Methodist minister of Millwood, Ala.; and Henry Strachey Le Vert (d. 1859), physician and scientist of Mobile, Ala. Also included are their wives and members of the related Walton, Withers, and Clay families. Topics included mercantile and property transactions, general social and economic conditions, and personal news.