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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Graves Family Papers #2716, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, Series A.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Henry Graves and Mrs. John B. Reeves of Atlanta and Mt. Pleasant Plantation, Ga., in 1944 and 1947.

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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

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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• Account books.
• Agriculture--Georgia--Societies, etc.--History--19th century.
• Blacksmiths--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Macon Volunteers.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Marine Corps.
• Creek War, 1836.
• Education--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Emma Willard School (Troy, N.Y.)
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Family--New York (State)--Social life and customs.
• Farmers--Georgia--Political activity.
• Farmers--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Graves family.
• Graves, Henry Lea, 1842-1892.
• Graves, Iverson Lea, 1800-1864.
• Graves, Sarah Dutton, active 1830-1883.
• Jefferson County (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
• Legislators--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Newton County (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Plantations--Georgia--Newton County.
• Women teachers--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Women--Education (Higher)--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Women--New York (State)--Social conditions.

• Milligan Family Papers (#1020); William P. Graham Papers (#1118); Charles Iverson Graves Papers (#2606).

Sarah Dutton Graves (fl. 1830-1883), educator and plantation owner, grew up in Champion, N. Y., and moved to Covington, Ga., to teach in 1832. She married local planter, Iverson Lea Graves (d. 1866), in 1834. After Iverson's death she became active in the management of the family's plantations.

Her son, Henry L. Graves (fl. 1842-1892), Confederate veteran and cotton planter, was active in local politics as a state legislator and a member of the county school board. He was also active in the Georgia Farmers' Alliance. Other correspondents represented in the collection include; Sarah's father, Nathaniel Dutton (d. 1852), her brother Henry Dutton (fl. 1830-1857), her son, Iverson Dutton Graves (fl. 1859-1888), her sister, Eunice Dutton (fl. 1830-1839), her daughter, Cornelia Graves (fl. 1860-1890), teachers and classmates from Troy Female Seminary, and family friends in New York and Georgia.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Sarah, Iverson, and Henry Graves (bulk 1830-1870). It also includes political papers and Farmers' Alliance papers of Henry L. Graves; two physician's record books of John L. Graves (fl. 1844-1847), probably a brother of Iverson L. Graves; sermon outlines and other religious Papers, some of which probably belonged to Nathaniel Dutton; Graves family account books and business Papers, including two volumes of blacksmith accounts; and a mid-19th-century scrapbook.

• Oversize volumes (SV-2716/1-4)