Letters from Forest Place
Subtitle: a plantation family's correspondence, 1846-1881
By: edited by E. Grey Dimond and Herman Hattaway.
Contributors: Dimond, E. Grey 1918-; Hattaway, Herman.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; Univ Pr of Mississippi
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Watkins family -- Correspondence.; Plantation life -- Mississippi -- Carroll County -- History -- 19th century.; Carroll County (Miss.) -- History.; Carroll County (Miss.) -- Biography.; Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Description: Thomas Alexander Watkins (1802-1884) was born in Georgia and studied medicine in Pennsylvania. He began a medical practice in Alabama where he met and married Sarah Epes Fitzgerald. They became the parents of two daughters, Letitia Ann Watkins (1835-1914) and Mary (Mollie) Early Watkins (1844-1935). In 1843 Thomas moved the family from Alabama to Carroll County, Mississippi. Lettie married William Martin Walton in 1854. Mary married Jeff McLemore in 1864. Descendants live in Texas.
Notes: Includes index.