Margaret Emily Kent Letter 1840

Access and use

Location of collection:
Wytheville Community College
F.B. Kegley Library
Wytheville Community College
Smyth Hall, Room 103
1000 East Main Street
Wytheville, VA 24382
Contact for questions and access:
POC: William A. “Bill” Veselik
Phone: (276) 223-4876
POC: George Mattis
Phone: (276) 223-4744
Fax: (276) 223-4745

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

In a 29 February 1840 letter from an unknown location, Margaret Emily Kent writes her father, Robert Kent about her experiences presumably at a school. She mentions a Mr. Davis, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Williamson, and a Miss Abbie (perhaps Abbie Williamson who later married Ephraim McGavock.

Biographical / historical:

Margaret Emily Kent, known as Emily, was the daughter of Robert C. Kent (1797-1852) and Elizabeth Montgomery Craig Kent (1799-1869). She was born on 11 December 1823 and died 4 June 1856 at the family home of Bellefield, at Kent's Mill in Wythe County, Virginia. She never married.

Her brother, Joseph F. Kent, paid Fleming K. Rich $35.00 for a "fine covered coffin with cloth and case" for her burial. No record of the burial is extant but most of the Kent family, including her parents, Robert Kent and Elizabeth Kent, are buried at the cemetery at Fort Chiswell.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Beverly Repass Hoch in May 2010.
Physical description:
1 item.