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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ledbetter Family Papers, #421, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Thomas C. Wells of Canton, N.C., July 1935.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Appalachian Region--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Haywood County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Ledbetter family.
• Ledbetter, Coleman.
• Ledbetter, Laura.
• Ledbetter, Richard.
• Ledbetter, William.

The Ledbetter family resided mainly in Haywood County, N.C. Members included Richard Ledbetter, Coleman Ledbetter, William Ledbetter, L. J. Ledbetter, and J. B. Ledbetter.

The collection includes scattered letters, 1858-1900, and business papers, 1822-1893, of an Appalachian Mountains family, mainly in Haywood County, N.C. Letters give routine family news about health, social life, farming, selling crops, the weather, and other topics. The business papers include miscellaneous bills, receipts, promissory notes, orders, warrants, checks, and other items of Coleman Ledbetter, James Ledbetter, Andrew Wells, J. W. Wells, Wells & Ledbetter, and others. There are also two broadsides, a testimonial, 1858, concerning a cancer cure and an endorsement, 1900, of John S. Cunningham as gubernatorial nominee of the Democratic party.