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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

• Barnett family.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Families--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Plantations--South Carolina--Spartanburg District.
• Recipes--Southern States.
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• Smith family.
• Stone family.
• Stone, Catharine Smith, 1798-1875.
• Stone, Moses, d. 1844.
• Tracy family.
• Women plantation owners--South Carolina.

Moses Stone (d. 1844) was a planter in the Spartanburg District of South Carolina. Stone's wife, Catharine Smith Stone (1798-1875), ran the plantation after her husband's death in 1844. Moses Stone had many brothers, including Pharis, Hillory, Henry, Ambrose, Tilman, Zealy, and John Stone. A cousin of Catharine Smith Stone, Jubilee Smith, practiced medicine and dentistry in Americus, Ga., after the Civil War.

The daughters of Moses and Catharine Stone included Martha Lovina (b. 1824); Regina Minerva (1824-1894), who married a physician, James Wright Tracy (1819-1896); Jane Melissa (b. 1827); Susan Ann (b. 1829); and Catharine Letitia (b. 1832).

Correspondence and business papers, including bills of sale, inventories, land documents and survey reports, subpoenas, promissory notes, and other documents written by or concerning members of the Stone family and related Smith, Tracy, and Barnett families of Cedar Springs, S.C.; Spartanburg County, S.C.; Franklin County, Ga.; Americus, Ga.; Marion County, Ala.; and King's Mountain, N.C. Most materials relate to Moses Stone and Catharine Smith Stone. Many letters, chiefly about family activities, are addressed to Catharine Smith Stone. Also included are charms, medicinal and household recipes, and a few items relating to slaves.

Correspondents include Moses Stone's brothers and the daughters of Moses and Catharine Stone. There is also a letter from a cousin of Catharine Smith Stone, Jubilee Smith, who practiced medicine and dentistry in Americus, Ga., after the Civil War.

Transcripts of selected items, made by Roscoe L. Strickland III in December 1994, are also included.

Items separated include an oversize paper (OP-4953/1).