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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 7 records found where LC Subject Heading is Death -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
	Letter from Kate Christine Sanborn to James Southgate, September 27, 1883 Kate Christine Sanborn expresses her grief to James Southgate about the recent loss of her mother, Susan Sanborn. Kate notes that her father and seven of her siblings have already died.
	Letter from Charles Conrad to Thomas Decatur Jones, July 11, 1889 Charles Conrad writes about his concern for Thomas Decatur Jones's spiritual condition should Thomas die from his illness. Conrad reflects on Heaven and the fact that his parents, wife, and two children are waiting for him there.
	Telegram, October 30, 1889 A Western Union Telegraph Co. telegram sent to D.J. Holcombe of Danville, Virginia reports the death of Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889).
	Obituary by A. S. DeVlarming for Thomas Decatur Jones, November 08, 1889 A. S. DeVlarming writes an obituary for his employer Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889) on Hotel Claiborn stationery. The Claiborn hotel was located in Durham, North Carolina during the 1880s.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 08, 1889 Upon reading a death notice for Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889) in the Durham Daily Globe, Mollie Page writes her friend Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to express her condolences. Mollie Page and Mattie Southgate Jones roomed together at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia.
	Letter from Mettie Ricketts to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 11, 1889 Mettie Ricketts sends her friend, Mattie Southgate Jones a letter of sympathy on the death of her husband Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889). Mettie Ricketts and Mattie Southgate attended the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia during the early 1880s.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to Celestia Muse Southgate, March 26, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate writes her sister Lessie (Celestia Muse) Southgate with news of festive and somber events at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She provides a vivid description of Alma Ivey's death from "tiphoid and brain fever," the visit of Alma's mother to school, and the funeral procession from school to the railroad depot. Mattie tells Lessie about her new interest in drawing and her lessons with Reverend Harris' daughter, Mattie. She discusses her coursework with Lizzie Daniels in vocal music and her plans to study art and musical elocution in the next year. Mattie notes that she visited Edmund Berkeley's studio and she promises to send her sister a photograph.

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