Correspondence
Other Form of Name
Gerdine, Roxana Chapin, 1833-1891
Identifier
MUM00683, 1.33
Recipient
Emily McKinstry Chapin
Publication Date
1873
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Description
Roxana is possibly pregnant with her fourth child, Lynn Van Horn Gerdine (b. 1873). She writes about the death of her step-daughter Lizzie Gerdine Sykes' son Emmett and she notes her son Chapin's reaction to the death. She writes of cholera outbreaks and the inability to buy a house in West Point, MS because of the poor cotton crop
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Crops; Pregnancy; Death; Sykes, Robert Emmett; Cholera; Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History; Confederate States of America
Relational Format
Archival Material
Original Format
correspondence
Original Collection
Roxana Chapin Gerdine Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Comments
A.L.S. (4 p.) Fragment
Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.