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Size | 1 item |
Abstract | Nannie Haskins (born 1846) married Henry Williams in 1870. Williams had four children by a previous marriage, and he and Nannie had six children. The collection is an intermittent diary of Nannie Haskins Williams, a woman living on a farm in Todd County, Ky., recording family concerns, activities of her children and her hopes for them, everyday life and difficulties, Christmas festivities, thoughts and interests, religious life, her reading, her secret efforts at writing a novel (a "romance of practical life"), and news of the county and of adjacent Montgomery County, Tenn. |
Creator | Williams, Nannie Haskins, b. 1846. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, April 2010
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Nannie Haskins (born 1846) married Henry Williams in 1870. Williams had four children by a previous marriage, and he and Nannie had six children.
Back to TopThe collection is an intermittent diary of Nannie Haskins Williams, a woman living on a farm in Todd County, Ky., recording family concerns, activities of her children and her hopes for them, everyday life and difficulties, Christmas festivities, thoughts and interests, religious life, her reading, her secret efforts at writing a novel (a "romance of practical life"), and news of the county and of adjacent Montgomery County, Tenn.
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Original finding aid |
Folder 2 |
Diary |
Reel M-3179/1 |
Microfilm |