Whittle, Francis M., Mill Bank, Charleston, Virginia; Berryville, Virginia, and Louisville, Kentucky, to "My dear cousins", 1847/1861
- Containers:
- Box 12, Folder 13
- Scope and content:
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"My dear cousins" may refer to Mrs. Mary Neale and Mrs. Frances M. Lewis, and/or Conway Whittle, Philadelphia and Norfolk. Content concerns life in Virginia; being ordained (July 16, 1847); first sermons; train derailment near Cumberland, Maryland; description of (West) Virginia towns; plans for running a railroad from Richmond to Cincinnati; marriage (June 1848) to Emily [Fairfax?]; church expansion; birth of a daughter (June 1849); cholera epidemic; Whig victory and the loss of Conway Whittle's job; possibility of church position in Goochland County; description of son, Fortescue; Kentucky's status as a "neutral" (1861); duty to preach gospel over politics.
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