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[Identification of item], in the Margaret Walker Weber Reminiscences, #1951-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Autobiographies--Southern States.
• Chatham County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Children--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Mallett family.
• Moseley Hall Plantation (Chatham County, N.C.)
• Moseley family.
• Mumford family.
• Southern States--Biography.
• Teachers--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Teachers--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Walker family.
• Weber, Johannes Heinrich Christian Frederich, b. 1812.
• Weber, Margaret Walker.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Women--Tennessee--Social life and customs.

• Peter Mallet Papers (#480), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Margaret Isabella Walker Weber (b. 1824) was the daughter of Caroline Mary Mallet and Carleton Walker.

The collection contains reminiscences of Walker's childhood at "Moseley Hall," on Walker's Hill, Chatham County, N.C., and in Hillsborough, N.C.; school days, chiefly in Hillsborough; marriage to Professor Johannes Heinrich Christian Frederich Weber (born 1812), who was born in Germany; experiences teaching school in Columbia, S.C., and in several places in Tennessee, including Columbia and Nashville; and some data on the Walker, Mumford, Mallet, and Moseley families.