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0047: Miller-Thackston Family Papers, 1849-1941, Marshall University Special Collections
0047: Miller-Thackston Family Papers, 1849-1941, Marshall University Special Collections
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The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Eugenia Miller Thackston while she was a student in boarding school in Greenupsburg, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, by her parents in Barboursville, Virginia before the Civil War. The letters include information about family members, the difficulty in maintaining a school, and developments in the town of Barboursville. There are also some letters written during the Civil War describing the hardships of the war on the family. Other items include addresses and writings of Eugenia's husband, Benjamin Thackston, while he was a student at Randolph-Macon College.
(Former Accession 1973/01.0055 Eugenia Miller …