Re: Letters of Willis and Dr. Elias Benson, South Carolina/Alabama
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Letters of Willis and Dr. Elias Benson, South Carolina/Alabama
Judy Travis 1/09/03
Dr Judy, I just found the following website referring to the Benson family collection of papers at Duke University in North Carolina. The collection includes letters of Dr. Elias Benson and others. There is more detail on the website.
I'm a descendant of Gen. Thomas Moore's daughter Violet (Moore) Barry who was Patsy Moore Benson's sister.
Dan
Guide to the Benson-Thompson Family Papers, 1803-1936
Rubenstein Library / Collection Guides
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/bensonthompson/http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/bensonthompson/
Abstract
Recorded earlier as the Benson Family Papers. Includes materials from the related families of Elias Benson, physician, of Marion Co., Alabama, and John Ford Thompson, officer of the Alabama Militia. The families emigrated from Greenville and Spartanburg counties, S.C., to Alabama in the early 1800s.
Personal correspondence and business papers of the Benson, Thompson, and Moore families who migrated from Greenville County and Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to Alabama. Correspondence between the groups in South Carolina and Alabama is concerned for the most part with family matters. However, political events are occasionally discussed, and a number of letters, 1836-1840, deal with the Alabama militia. The collection includes letters reflecting conditions in Alabama during the Civil War; several items on medical education at the University of Louisiana (Tulane University), 1866-1868; and records of the Marion (Alabama) Grange, No. 95, 1873-1876.