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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 |
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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