WORK SHEET
PC 1849.1 _
NAME OF COLLECTION:’ _ Edmurid Tombs BEAZLEY (1818-1910) Papers
Stokes County, N.C.
DATES : c .1850s- c.1910
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 26 items, manuscript and printed (including
one oversized mercantile arithmetic copybook) — ~
ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Gift, 1996; Purchase by Friends of the Archives.
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION: This collection is made up of fragmentary sur¬
vivals from the life of Beazley, farmer, school teacher , one-time militia
colonel, and,’ after the Civil War, captain of the police guard for Stokes
County. It includes three Civil War period letters (two of them official
in nature) and 12 letters and documents relating to the police guard
established to maintain order in Stokes County in the disordered period
following the defeat of the Southern armies and collapse of the Confederacy.
Six family letters and a family Bible record, with three negligible miscel-
laenous documents complete the collection. The family correspondence
reflects the efforts of a widely-scattered family to maintain contact.
The oversized mercantile arithmetic copybook is housed separately.
Folder 1
1. Family Bible record, 1818-1897.
2. Letter, July 30 [1850s], from Beazley's niece, Mattie J., in Clinton,
Ky., to her uncle relating family news.
Folder 2
1. Letter, May 23, 1863, G. L. Cammall (?), Camp at Hanover . Junction, Va.,
to Col. E. T. Beazley. Speaks of the placement and movement of
USA and CSA troops since his regiment was moved from Suffolk to
the Rappahannock — expects a warm campaign. Wants news of everyone
at Sandy Ridge.
2.' Letter, Oct. 6, 1864, Capt . Chas. R. King, Provisional Quarter Master,
6th District of N.C., Graham, N.C., to E. T. Beazley, Esq., directing
him to send his returns of tobacco collected to the state's general
agent at Yanceyville, as well as his tobacco estimates and abstracts
of tobacco estimates. Grain collected in Stokes County must be
threshed, and Beazley is to report it and deliver it that way.
Grain estimates and abstracts are to be sent to King at Graham.
