Contributions

  • Dimond, E. Grey 1918- - Contributor
  • Hattaway, Herman. - Contributor

Publication

1993 - University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi

Language

English

Word Count

128,000 words, Guess

Page Count

512 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2848175
  • Goodreads2269383

Classifications

  • DDC976.2/633
  • LCCF347.C3 L48 1993

Description

Thomas Alexander Watkins (1802-1884) was born in Georgia and studied medicine in Pennsylvania. He began a medical practice in Alabama where he met and married Sarah Epes Fitzgerald. They became the parents of two daughters, Letitia Ann Watkins (1835-1914) and Mary (Mollie) Early Watkins (1844-1935). In 1843 Thomas moved the family from Alabama to Carroll County, Mississippi. Lettie married William Martin Walton in 1854. Mary married Jeff McLemore in 1864. Descendants live in Texas.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryBiographyCorrespondencePlantation lifeMississippi, historyWatkins family -- Correspondence.Carroll County (Miss.) -- History.

Other Editions

  • Letters from Forest Place: a plantation family's correspondence, 1846-1881University Press of Mississippi1993-01-01

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