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No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Jones Family Papers #2884, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Volume 27 includes a typed transcription.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Kate, Julia, and Frances A. Jones, June-July 1944 and February 1953; D. Martin Lorber of New York, N.Y., in September 1982 (Acc. 82096); purchased from Louis Ginsberg in August 1983 (Acc. 83220); received from Anne R. Phillips of Greensboro, N.C., in June 1991 (Acc. 91069); and Abram D. Jones, September 1995 (Acc. 95069) and January 2006 (Acc. 100295).

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff, 1955-2006

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, April 2006

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, April 2021

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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• Abortion--United States--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Christian Scientists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, 1st.
• Conrad family.
• Deserters, Military--Confederate States of America.
• Diaries.
• Disciples of Christ--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Forsyth County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Freedmen--North Carolina.
• Hauser family.
• Henry County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Jones family.
• Jones, Abraham G.
• Jones, Beverly.
• Jones, James B., 1846-1911.
• Jones, Julia Amelia Conrad.
• Medical education--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Medical education--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Medical fees--History--19th century.
• Medicine--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century.
• Moravians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mormons--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Oak Grove Plantation (Stokes County, N.C.)
• Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Plantations--North Carolina--Forsyth County.
• Plantations--North Carolina--Stokes County.
• Recipes--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--North Carolina.
• Stokes County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wilson family.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Diaries.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

• Marion Sims Papers (#666)
• Bartlett Jones Papers (#2204)

Beverly Jones, physician and planter, son of Gabriel de Remi Jones and Mary Bryant Jones of Martinsville, Va., was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He practiced first in Germantown, N.C., and later in Bethania, N.C. Jones built Oak Grove in Bethania after his marriage (ca. 1843) to Julia Amelia Conrad, daughter of Phillipina Lash and her second husband, Abram Conrad. The couple had ten children: Abraham G. (Abram), physician and druggist in Walnut Grove, N.C.; James B. (1846-1911), a minister of the Disciples of Christ and president of William Woods College in Missouri; Alexander C.; Robert H., a dentist; Erastus B., a lawyer in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Virginia, who married a Mr. Sullivan; Ella, Julia, Kate, and Lucien, all unmarried, who remained at Oak Grove, where Lucien ran the farming operations.

The collection consists of papers, especially correspondence of Beverly Jones, physician and planter at Oak Grove near Bethania, Stokes County, N.C. (now Forsyth County, N.C.); his wife Julia Amelia Conrad Jones; and their children. Letters circulated among Jones family members and members of the Conrad, Hauser, Lash, Lemly, and Wilson families of North Carolina and Henry County, Va. Topics include household and women's affairs and education; religious activities of Moravians, Disciples of Christ, Mormons, and Christian Scientists, especially of Disciples ministers Virgil Wilson and James B. Jones; and medical practice and medical study by Abram G. Jones, a medical student at the University of Virginia and the University of New York. His 1867 thesis on abortion is included. Civil War materials include letters of soldiers in North Carolina and Virginia; letters from civilians commenting on recruiting problems and desertion in the Confederate Army; a diary, 1863, of James B. Jones as a lieutenant in the 1st North Carolina Battalion Sharpshooters, serving in North Carolina and Virginia; and a diary, 1864, of Abram G. Jones, describing camp life during the siege of Petersburg. Reconstruction era material includes information on relations with freemen and Abram G. Jones's medical day book listing physician visits and charges. Later papers are primarily those of the unmarried Jones daughters, Julia Jones, Ella Jones, and Kate Jones. Among the volumes are Julia Amelia Conrad Jones's diaries, Beverly Jones's medical accounts, and farm records.