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0040: Hammat Family Papers, 1822-1862, Marshall University Special Collections
0040: Hammat Family Papers, 1822-1862, Marshall University Special Collections
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The Hammat Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence between members of the Giles and Samuel Hammat families of Wood (later Pleasants) County, (West) Virginia and their relatives in Virginia and Missouri, between 1829 and 1860. Included in this portion of the papers are letters from Samuel B. Hammat to his brother John; they describe his journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the winter of 1846-1847. Also of interest are the letters written by various relatives describing their settlements in Missouri in the 1840's and 1850's. Miscellaneous financial papers dating from 1822 to 1862 are also included; itemized store …
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 …