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[Identification of item], in the Emma Lee Hutchison Cosby papers #4338, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Bath County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Cosby, Emma Lee Hutchison.
• Crawford family--Genealogy.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Genealogists--Virginia.
• Millboro Springs (Va.)
• Sittington family--Genealogy.
• Sterrett family--Genealogy.
• Teenage girls--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Virginia--Genealogy.
• Virginia--Social conditions.
• Women--Virginia--Diaries.
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

• Cosby Family Papers, Unit 60 Miscellaneous Family Papers, #2182.

Emma Lee Hutchison Cosby (fl. 1900-1916) was raised in Bath County, Va. Moving to the area around Warm Springs, Va., Cosby taught in a local private school. She was the wife of Henry Preston Cosby, with whom she had one child. After her husband's death, Cosby went to business school and later worked briefly in Washington, D.C., as secretary to temperance leader Carrie Nation. Cosby's interests in genealogy and writing, which she pursued on a free-lance basis, are reflected in these papers.

Chiefly letters to Cosby concerning Sittington, Sterrett, and Crawford family genealogy, and writings by Cosby. Writings include "Chip: When the Yankees Were in Virginia," a 700-page series of vignettes set in "Wildwood," presumably in Bath County, Va., during the Civil War, and including memories of Cosby's childhood. Also included are apparent diary entries, presumably by a teenaged girl, describing experiences during a stay at Millboro Springs, Bath County, Va., June-July 1898.