Restrictions to Access

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 Elizabeth Reeves and Andrew J. Reeves Papers, #4089-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Purchase 1976

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

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agricultural laborers--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Families--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Farm tenancy--Georgia.
• Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Pearson, J. M.
• Reeves, Andrew J.
• Reeves, Elizabeth.
• Reeves, John M.
• Tenant farmers--Georgia--Economic conditions.

The collection contains letters to Elizabeth Reeves and Andrew J. Reeves of Carroll County, Ga., from friends and relatives in Fayette and Gwinett counties, Ga., Louisiana, and Alabama. Included are letters, 1888-1892, from J. M. Pearson, a tenant farmer in Gwinett County, one of which details difficulties that forced him to become a hired laborer. Other letters deal with personal and family news, health, crops, local social events, and religion, with one letter, 19 March 1862, from John M. Reeves to his parents describing his army experiences outside Atlanta, Ga.