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Ebenezer Wilson Patton Papers

0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)
Genealogical data, a letter, and other papers of the Ebenezer Wilson Patton family of Clarksburg, West Virginia, documenting Patton family history and Clarksburg in the 1870s. Genealogical material includes two family records that list births, deaths, and marriages from 1729 to 1879. The letter from Ebenezer Patton to M. L. Paullus of Greenfield, Indiana, describes conditions in Clarksburg in 1872. Topics include Patton's recent return to West Virginia, starting a general store and the state of his business, religious revivals, politics, radicalism, the weather, and news of family and friends. Patton also writes about the status of African Americans in the community after the Civil War. He describes churches, sermons about the status of African Americans, having his former slaves returned to his family to be cared for, and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ebenezer Wilson Patton Papers 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Patton, Ebenezer Wilson
Genealogical data, a letter, and other papers of the Ebenezer Wilson Patton family of Clarksburg, West Virginia, documenting Patton family history and Clarksburg in the 1870s. Genealogical material includes two family records that list births, deaths, and marriages from 1729 to 1879. The letter from Ebenezer Patton to M. L. Paullus of Greenfield, Indiana, describes conditions in Clarksburg in 1872. Topics include Patton's recent return to West Virginia, starting a general store and the state of his business, religious revivals, politics, radicalism, the weather, and news of family and friends. Patton also writes about the status of African Americans in the community after the Civil War. He describes churches, sermons about the status of African Americans, having his former slaves returned to his family to be cared for, and the Ku Klux Klan.

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