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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 4 records found where LC Subject Heading is Childbirth -- Southern states -- 19th century
	Letter from Annie E. Snow to Richard Harvey Wright, May 13, 1886 Annie E. Snow gives a report to her brother-in-law Richard H. Wright about her health after the birth of her son, Horace Snow. Annie approves Richard's selection of the monument, inscription, and verse for the grave of Richard's deceased wife, Mamie Exum Wright.
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, December 6, 1887 In this letter to his brother Richard, Thomas Wright, proprietor of the tobacco brokerage T. D. Wright and Company, shares the challenges which he faces in the tobacco market. He also notes that Mrs. Stokes lost both of her conjoined twins after their birth.
	Letter from Bettie Ann Cunningham to Thomas Decatur Jones , September 08, 1885 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.
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 26, 1889 In this letter, from James Haywood Southgate to, his sister, Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, James congratulates Mattie Southgate Jones on the birth of her son, Thomas Decatur Jones. Her brother prays to God for her speedy recovery from the pains of childbirth. He writes the letter on F. Fishbate Wholesale and Retail: Clothier, Hatter, and Furnisher's stationary, which was located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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