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Box 2217.0001

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 File — Box: 2217.0001, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists of family letters written by Juliet Bestor Coleman, her daughter, Alice Coleman Meriwether and her son-in-law, John Samuel Meriwether, all of Eutaw, Alabama, between 1833 and 1864.The collection also has a very small (3.75" x 2.75") travelogue detailing her three-week journey from Suffield, Connecticut to La Grange, Alabama in 1833. There is also a small collection of letters between the Bestor and Coleman families regarding Juliet's last illness and her death. ...
Dates: 1833 - 1864; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864