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Start Over Collection Hamner Family Papers 1821-1856 Date range 1821
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Hamner Family Papers 1821-1856

This collection is comprised of four items, 1821-1856, relating to the Hamner familyof Hardware River, Albemarle County, Virginia. Included are two letters, 1821 and 1846. One letter, August 14, 1821, written by Nicholas Hamner Cobbsof Bedford to "Dear Uncle," describes the death of his mother, and of a slave, from fever. Cobbs (1796-1861) was chaplain at the University of Virginia between 1834-1835, and later became the first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama. The other letter, July 20, 1846, written by Thomas W. Robertsto Nicholas Hamner, regards a church congregation in Hardware, Virginia.

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