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Smith family letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234616]
Identifier: MSS SC 131
Scope and Contents ALS from Lewis Jones (Independence, Missouri) to Angeline Smith (Talladega, Alabama) informing her of her son, Lafayette's rescue from the Comanche Indians (1842); ALS from Frederick Forney Foscue (Rockford, Alabama) to John Smith (Cuero, Texas) telling of family happenings, with a very critical account of John P. Lee's marriage to a fourteen-year-old girl (1848); ALS from Sarah Meadows (Coosa, Alabama) to Maria Smith (Cuero, Texas) concerning family news, marriages, and deaty (1849); and an...
Dates: 1842-1921 (inclusive), 1842-1849 (bulk)
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Smith family letters

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