Title:
Letter from Bettie Ann Cunningham to Thomas Decatur Jones, September 8, 1885: Electronic Edition.
Author:
Southgate, James Haywood, 1859-1916
Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Funder:
Funding by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO.
Transcription Information:
Text transcribed by: Kelly Clark
Images scanned by: Digital Production Center
Text encoded by: Katherine M. Wisser
Transcription Edition:
Edition: First edition,
Date: 2006
Publication Information:
Publisher: Duke University Libraries
Date: 2006
Availability: ©This work is the property of the Duke University Libraries. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Source Information:
Title: Letter from James Southgate to Thomas Decatur Jones, September 8, 1885
Author: James Haywood Southgate
Date: 18850908
Note: Writing from Greensboro, North Carolina, Bettie Ann Cunningham asks her brother Thomas Decatur Jones about his expectant wife Mattie Logan. "I hope she is not uneasy and bears her trouble bravely. I believe all the ladies this year have gone a month over their time and all of them have had girls so be prepared for such a calamity as you men regard it." She also describes her brother John K. Jones' accident and how poor communication between his siblings and their mother Nancy Harriet Keen Jones delayed his medical care. In closing, Bettie advises Thomas to attend Mrs. Chapin's temperance speech when the lecturer travels to Durham.
P: James Southgate papers, 1794-1944 and undated, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Class: Childbirth -- Southern states -- 19th century
Class: Durham (N.C.) -- History
Class: Communication in the family -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Class: Railroads -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Class: Temperance and religion -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Class: Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Class: Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate
Class: Family -- North Carolina -- History
Class: Family -- Social life and customs -- Southern states
Class: Pregnancy -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Class: Cunningham, Bettie Ann
Class: Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Class: Chapin, Mrs.
Class: Jones, Nancy Harriet Keen, 1818-1906
Class: Jones, John Keen, b.1850
Class: Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Class: Pregnancy -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Class: Cunningham, Bettie Ann
Class: Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Class: Durham (N.C.)
Class: Greensboro (N.C.)
Class: Richmond (Va.)

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Childbirth -- Southern states -- 19th century
Durham (N.C.) -- History
Communication in the family -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Railroads -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Temperance and religion -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate
Family -- North Carolina -- History
Family -- Social life and customs -- Southern states
Pregnancy -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Cunningham, Bettie Ann
Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Chapin, Mrs.
Jones, Nancy Harriet Keen, 1818-1906
Jones, John Keen, b.1850
Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Pregnancy -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Cunningham, Bettie Ann
Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Durham (N.C.)
Greensboro (N.C.)
Richmond (Va.)

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