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[Identification of item], in the Hemphill Family Papers, #1285, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

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• Adair family.
• Brawley, James Clark.
• Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Family--Texas--Social life and customs.
• Hemphill family.
• Hemphill, John, 1803-1862.
• Hemphill, John, 1845-1924.
• Hemphill, Robert Nixon, 1816-1891.
• Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931.
• New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815--Poetry.
• Nixon family.
• South Carolina--Biography.
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Texas--Biography.
• Texas--Social life and customs.
• Yellow fever--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Papers include scattered letters between various individuals of the Hemphill, Nixon, and Adair families of South Carolina and Texas, regarding family news and history, marriages and deaths in the family, and an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans; an 1815 devotional poem written for the Battle of New Orleans; a letter from George F. Moore regarding his quotation of Hon. John Hemphill's opinion in the Dred Scott case and an obituary for Hemphill's death; receipts; a biographical sketch of Hon. John Hemphill and Robert Nixon Hemphill (1816-1891); a memorandum on James Clark Brawley and his family; remarks on the descendants of Reverend John Hemphill, D.D.; and pamphlets including biographical works and eulogies on members of the Adair and Hemphill families and other short works of local history pertaining to the Hemphill family.