OLD DOCUMENTS.
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August 6, 1855, re: Removal of family.
(Property of Sargeant Memorial Room, Manuscript Collection.)
Yellow Fever Pass - This pass, now the property of Maj. James M. Broughton, of Portsmouth,
was issued during the dread yellow fever epidemic which hit Norfolk in 1855. It reads as follows:
Ports, Va, August 6th, 1855
This is to certify that Patrick H. Cooke and family have not had the yellow fever or been living
in or contiguous to the district where said fever exists. L S Billisoly, M.D.
Permit P. H. Cooke and family, with their baggage (trunks and boxes) to come to Norfolk.
August 6, 1855. Tho. G. Broughton, Secy. B. H.* * * * * *
October 10, 1855, Letter to Com. Samuel Barron re: contribution
Papers of the Barron Family.
Courtesy the University of Virginia Libraries
(See the end of this page for further transcribed letters.)
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Facsimilies of documents of the Richmond Relief Committee provided by the Library of Virginia to the Kirn Library, Sargeant Memorial Room, Norfolk, VA.
September 5, 1855, re: Removal of Portsmouth & Norfolk citizens
September 5, 1855, re: Contribution
September 7, 1855, re: Contribution
September 14, 1855, re: Supplies sent to orphans at Catholic College in Richmond
September 14, 1855, re: Supplies (2nd page)
September 15, 1855, re: Payment for fruit
October 1, 1855, re: Contribution
October 3, 1855, re: Howard Association letter
October 6, 1855, re: Request for funds
November 8, 1855, re: Payment of wages
Richmond's Funds for Norfolk and Portsmouth, 1855.
(first of seventeen pages)
A copy of a page in Scrap Book 2 of Thomas B. Rowland, 1825-1918,
his account of the yellow fever epidemic of 1855.
Courtesy of Kirn Memorial Library.
September 14, 1855, letter to Rev. George Armstrong
regarding supplies.
Courtesy of Walter B. Martin, Jr.* * * * * *
Couper Marble Works, Norfolk, VA
Records, 1848-1943
Ledger C, 1855-1858
Courtesy of Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.The following photocopies are taken from the Couper Ledger C. Note
the accounts for the families of yellow fever victims.
Page 10 above: Note Dr. Tunstall's account.
Page 66 above: Note Estate of Horatio Moore account.
Page 78 above: Note Miss Redman's account.
Page 106 above: Note Dr. Tunstall's account (cont'd)
Page 108 above: Note Mrs. Buskey's account.
Page 124 above: Note Estate of Walter Taylor account.
Page number obliterated above: Note Dr. Selden's account.
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