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Size | 97 items |
Abstract | MICROFILM ONLY. Daughter of Thomas Dougherty (1774-1822) of Danville, Ky., clerk of the United States House of Representatives, 1815-1822, and wife of Samuel Worthington, planter of Washington County, Miss. Family correspondence and Civil War diary. Correspondence includes letters with political and social news from Worthington's family in Washington, D.C.; letters from relatives at Danville, Ky., describing the cholera epidemic of 1833; Worthington's letters to her son at the University of Virginia, 1857-1858; letters from her son while he was serving in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Confederate Army of Tennessee; and other items. The diary, 1863-1865, was kept by Worthington's daughter Amanda (born 1845) and mostly concerns social life at Wayside Plantation, Willowby, Washington County, Miss. |
Creator | Worthington, Amanda Dougherty, b. 1805. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Laura Hart, May 2021
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Daughter of Thomas Dougherty (1774-1822) of Danville, Ky., clerk of the United States House of Representatives, 1815-1822, and wife of Samuel Worthington, planter of Washington County, Miss.
Back to TopMICROFILM ONLY. Family correspondence and Civil War diary. Correspondence includes letters with political and social news from Worthington's family in Washington, D.C.; letters from relatives at Danville, Ky., describing the cholera epidemic of 1833; Worthington's letters to her son at the University of Virginia, 1857-1858; letters from her son while he was serving in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Confederate Army of Tennessee; and other items. The diary, 1863-1865, was kept by Worthington's daughter Amanda (born 1845) and mostly concerns social life at Wayside Plantation, Willowby, Washington County, Miss.
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Microfilm copy of papers, 1819-1878Access restriction: The original physical documents are not owned by the Library or stored in Wilson Special Collections Library. |