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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06377.10 |
| From Archive Folder | Slavery archive: Duley Family Papers |
| Title | Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book with manuscript notes |
| Date | 1883 |
| Author | Duley, Eva E. (b. 1859) |
| Document Type | Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Full title: "Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book designed for Farmers, Mechanics and All People Who appreciate the value of keeping a memorandum of business transactions, daily events, and items of interest or importance, for future reference." Cover also indicates it was "A Present from the World's Dispensary Medical Association." Filled with sundry medical information. A manuscript note on page one indicates this is Eva Duley's book and dates it to 23 December 1883. Written on the pages for notes are birth dates, death dates, and marriage anniversaries for various members of Enoch M. Duley's family, from his birth in 1818 to W.N. Underwood's death in 1947. Era (listed on p. 8) was Enoch and Wilebour Duley's eighth child. |
| Subjects | Health and Medical Finance Children and Family Genealogy Death Marriage |
| People | Duley, Eva E. (b. 1859) |
| Place written | Livingston, Kentucky |
| Theme | Health & Medicine; Merchants & Commerce |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Folder Information: Duley Family Papers, mostly by Enoch Duley and his son Enoch M. Duley. The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, land grants, genealogical material, land surveys and maps, a hymn book, and photographs, including cabinet cards, tintypes, and cartes de visite. These materials document the acquisition and division of land by the Duley family; genealogy of the Duley, Wood, and Underwood families; and serve as photographic documentation of a number of Duley family members over a range of years. For instance, the collection contains several photographs of Eva (Duley) Underwood, the youngest daughter of Enoch and Wilebour Duley. These images show her both as a child with her sister Alice (photo #22), as a young adult (photo #27), and as a woman (photos #28-29). The handwritten genealogical account of the family (GLC06377.10) is also the product of Eva (Duley) Underwood. In addition to genealogical and family materials, the collection also contains two land grants signed by Kentucky governors John L. Helm (GLC06377.05) and S.B. Buckner (GLC06377.09). Also included is an 1860 broadside in which Enoch M. Duley offers a reward for the apprehension of ”my boy Manuel,” a runaway slave described as 35 years old and enterprising. Includes a physical description: ”He has a shrewd expression of the eye, and has a scar on one of his thighs occasioned from a burn, is well dressed and has in his possession a figured, plush carpetbag.”, , This collection is arranged in two series: , 1. Papers, pamphlets, and maps 1840-1891, and no date. Items 1-15. , 2. Photographs, n.d. Items 16-51. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |