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Additional authors

1. Jones, Cornelius T., 1851-1931.
2. Sadler family.
3. Jones Family.

Description

1. 26 items (one folder)

Summary

1. The Jones-Sadler family papers (1876-1931) consists of correspondence and other documents relating to Cornelius Jones and to Charles and Sarah Sadler and family. The collection includes: transcript from Kansas City General Hospital with a letter offering employment to Callie Patterson; certificate of service and pension request for Charles Sadler; a midwife permit dated 1923 and five documents relating to Sarah Sadler's receipt of her husband's pension; receipt for room, board and tuition for Estelle Walker at Central Tennessee College; a three page obituary, six letters and one flyer advertising Cornelius Jones's Candidacy for the third Congressional District in Mississippi; and two letters to Sarah Sadler Cornelius and Hannah Jones.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

1. African American families
2. Sadler family
3. United States > Armed Forces > Pay, allowances, etc
4. Sadler, Sarah E. Jones
5. Jones family
6. Greenville (Miss.) > Biography
7. United States > Armed Forces > African Americans
8. African American women
9. Jones, Cornelius T., 1851-1931
10. African American legislators
11. Midwives
12. Sadler, Charles
13. African American nurses
14. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans

Call number

1. Sc MG 263

Note

1. Three photographs have been transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

1. Mrs. Camille Patterson Busby

Biography (note)

1. The Jones-Sadler family was an African-American family living in Greenville, Mississippi, after the Civil War. Cornelius Jones (1858-1931), a graduate of Alcorn University and a lawyer, was elected to the Mississippi Legislature in 1889. His sister Sarah, a midwife who attended Tougaloo University, married Charles Sadler, a veteran of the Civil War. They had two daughters: Callie (Patterson), a trained nurse, and Estelle (Walker) who attended Central Tennessee College.

Processing action (note)

1. Processed.

Title

1. Jones-Sadler family papers, 1876-1931.

Biography

1. The Jones-Sadler family was an African-American family living in Greenville, Mississippi, after the Civil War. Cornelius Jones (1858-1931), a graduate of Alcorn University and a lawyer, was elected to the Mississippi Legislature in 1889. His sister Sarah, a midwife who attended Tougaloo University, married Charles Sadler, a veteran of the Civil War. They had two daughters: Callie (Patterson), a trained nurse, and Estelle (Walker) who attended Central Tennessee College.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding aid

Added author

1. Jones, Cornelius T., 1851-1931.
2. Sadler family.
3. Jones Family.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 263