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Box 2

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Correspondence, 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id89343
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letters, chiefly 1862-1865, written by Nathaniel Venable Watkins to his wife Nancy Daniel Watkins. During the Civil War, Watkins served with Co. H, 4th Virginia Heavy Artillery, which became part of the 34th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Watkins appeared to have saw little combat, spending much of his time in defensive positions guarding artillery batteries. His unit was stationed at Gloucester Point (during the Peninsular Campaign), near Richmond (Chaffin's Bluff) and near Petersburg. His...
Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Nathaniel V. Watkins, Brookland, North Carolina, to his brother, Dick (Richard H. Watkins)

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108416
Scope and Contents His financial problems continue; apparently, farther south, matters are a little better because speculation and development are higher; his farm is serving as an expense rather then a source of profit; must continue teaching to pay for farm expenses; refers to his recent nervous breakdown due to over-work; mentions the horrors of teaching; relays family news; although he would like to, he is too poor to relocate; refers to his crops of cotton, tobacco and molasses; mentions the upcoming...
Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Richard H. Watkins, Prince Edward County, Virginia, to his brother, Nathaniel V. Watkins

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108420
Scope and Contents

Is sorry to hear of Nathaniel's bad health; has been forced to give up his low profession and concentrate on his farming; mentions his poor health; refers to the troubles of their sister, Pattie Watkins Scott and the nursing of her husband (?); is now taking in boarders and is teaching; relays crop news; is getting poorer each year; refers to an attempt to form a Farmer's Club; deer hunting seems to be the last profitable venture in Virginia.

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Richard H. Watkins, Prince Edward County, Virginia, to his sister-in-law, Nannie V. Watkins

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108421
Scope and Contents

Gives details of the schooling and boarding of their children.

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Susan Roberts, Ripley, Tennessee, to Annie Watkins, Sassafras, North Carolina

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108422
Scope and Contents

Relays family news; refers to their good cotton crop in the area.

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Pattie J. Watkins Scott, Smithville, Charlotte County, Virginia, to her brother, Nathaniel V. Watkins

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108424
Scope and Contents

Refers to her running the farm and matters of the household; is also maintaining a school in the house; mentions her declining appearance; has been forced to raise her step-son Emby (Scott) in a strange manner; gives details of her garden and livestock; is upset that she seldom sees her even closest family; refers to the declining health throughout the family.

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Mary O. Ballantine, Bloomington, Indiana, to her uncle, Nathaniel V. Watkins

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108427
Scope and Contents

Informs him of her father's (?) death.

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

Fannie Hundley, Rotherwood, (?), to her uncle, Dick (Richard H. Watkins)

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108428
Scope and Contents

Responds to Richard's request for a loan; refers to family illnesses; discusses her trip to Texas; apparently times in Texas are not as hard; also revisited Mobile and states its people are "real Virginians."

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29

M. E. Edmunds, to her brother and sister, Richard H. and Mary Watkins

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: id108430
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Thanks them for sending Emma Watkins to care for them while they are ill.

Dates: 1880 February 4-1889 August 29