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Collection Number: 05669

Collection Title: Mary Elizabeth Case Vance Papers, 1860s-1880s

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Size 24 items
Abstract The collection contains letters and post cards received by Mary Elizabeth Case Vance (1857-1930) of Henderson County, N.C., and scattered letters of Confederate soldiers related to her through marriage to John Zebulon Vance (1858-1928). The primary correspondent is her father Thomas Jefferson Case (1819-1885), a white farmer residing in Blue Ridge, N.C., and writing in the late 1870s and early 1880s to Mary in Collin County, Tex, where she lived with her husband and children. Case's letters include local and family news from Henderson County, weather and crop reports, commentary on newspapers Mary sent from Texas, and advice for Mary's teaching career in Texas. Civil War era letters were written between 1861 and 1862 from Confederate army camps near Raleigh, N.C., Fredericksburg, Va., and Manassas, Va. The scattered letters from Mary's father in-law Josiah Gideon Vance (1835-1901) and Vance's brother-in-law Samuel King to family members mention troop movements and camp life.
Creator Vance, Mary Elizabeth Case, 1857-1930.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
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 Mary Elizabeth Case Vance Papers #05669-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Brent Harris and Karen Harris in January 2016 (Acc. 102495).
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.
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Encoded by: Laura Hart, July 2019

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Mary Elizabeth Case Vance was born in Henderson County, N.C., in 1857 to Mary Eleanor Case (1826-1865) and Thomas Jefferson Case (1819-1885). In 1878, she married John Zebulon Vance (1858-1928), son of Josiah Gideon Vance (1835-1901) and Leodicia King Vance, also of Henderson County, N.C. Mary Vance, John Vance, and their children resided in Collin County, Tex., and later Washington state and Fresno County, Calif. She died in California in 1930.

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