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Jones family papers

Business papers, 1915, of John Edward Jones as manager and overseer of the Jones Farm, Kershaw, S.C., whose duties included sales of truck farming vegetable and dairy products, livestock, poultry, and hunting dogs; business correspondence includes illustrated letterhead stationery from the farm (27 June 1915) and elsewhere in United States; other correspondence of J.E. Jones includes "pedigree of Palmetto Princess ... a Berkshire sow" of Palmetto, Ga. (29 Aug. 1914); circular letter, "Nitrate of Soda Propaganda" [ca.1915] encoraging fertilization of cotton crops, from William S. Myers of New York, and other companies such as promotional letter, 12 Oct. 1925, promoting Wrigley's Spearment Toothpaste; and 4 letters, 3 Aug. - 15 Sept. 1915, from St. John Alison Lawton in Charleston, S.C., describing in detail his James Island plantation farming operations and proposing that Jones become his business partner, and acceptance of Jones' refusal of the offer.

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  • "Business papers, 1915, of John Edward Jones as manager and overseer of the Jones Farm, Kershaw, S.C., whose duties included sales of truck farming vegetable and dairy products, livestock, poultry, and hunting dogs; business correspondence includes illustrated letterhead stationery from the farm (27 June 1915) and elsewhere in United States; other correspondence of J.E. Jones includes "pedigree of Palmetto Princess ... a Berkshire sow" of Palmetto, Ga. (29 Aug. 1914); circular letter, "Nitrate of Soda Propaganda" [ca.1915] encoraging fertilization of cotton crops, from William S. Myers of New York, and other companies such as promotional letter, 12 Oct. 1925, promoting Wrigley's Spearment Toothpaste; and 4 letters, 3 Aug. - 15 Sept. 1915, from St. John Alison Lawton in Charleston, S.C., describing in detail his James Island plantation farming operations and proposing that Jones become his business partner, and acceptance of Jones' refusal of the offer."@en
  • "Correspondence, 1905-1918, between Sarah Rebecca Stover Gray in Corsicana, Tex., to her sister, Laura Cornelia Stover Jones in Kershaw (Lancaster County, S.C.); letter, 8 Nov. 1906, to Ida [Louiza Jones] re the accidental burning of Harriet Elizabeth Horton Jones during a brush burning."@en
  • "Business records, 1897-1899, of James Samuel Jones as dealer in tanned hides, skins, and beeswax."@en
  • "Other John Edward Jones materials include 2 bound volumes consisting of diary and pocket account book, both spanning years 1914-1915, recording activities and expenses in Kershaw and Lancaster County, S.C., and letters, 1917-1918, written written from Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., during World War I; weekly timebook, 11 Jan. 1915 - 24 July 1916, of an unidentified business listing names of workers, number of days worked, and amount paid [cover illustrated with winged clock and scythe]; and undated volume [ca. 1910s-1920s?], written by a member of the Jones family who served as a mailman, listing residents of a rural mail route in vicinity of Pleasant Hill (Lancaster County, S.C.)."@en
  • "Includes miscellaneious items, 1925, re operation of the Pastime Theatre in Kershaw, S.C., which screened silent films; and undated catalog [ca. 1920s] of playground equipment and sporting goods from Jones School Supply Company, located in the Carolina National Bank Building (Columbia, S.C.)."@en
  • "Other places represented include Limestone College (Gaffney, S.C.); Winthrop College (Rock Hill, S.C.); Augusta, Ga.; Greenville, S.C.; Westchester, New York; and elsewhere."@en
  • "Consisting of 3 vol. and 893 items of personal and family correspondence of Burwell Marion Jones and Laura Cornelia Stover Jones and their children: James Samuel Jones, Lemuel Cunningham Jones, Wade Hampton Jones, Rebecca Stover Jones, Harriet Susan Jones, Laura Amelia Jones, Marion Burrell Jones, Ida Louiza Jones, John Edward Jones, and Dora Lillie Jones."@en
  • "Papers, dated 1801, 1868, and 1888 - 1932, consisting of letters, business records, and diary."@en

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  • "Personal narratives"@en
  • "Diaries"@en
  • "Diaries (Blank-books)"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Records and correspondence"@en

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  • "Jones family papers"@en

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