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Description: 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.
Names: Jones-Sadler family (Creator)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1876 - 1931
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc MG 263
Topics: Jones, Cornelius T., 1851-1931; Sadler, Sarah E. Jones; Sadler, Charles; Sadler family; Jones family; African American families; African American legislators; African American women; African American nurses; Midwives; United States -- Armed Forces -- Pay, allowances, etc; United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans; Greenville (Miss.) -- Biography
Notes: Biographical/historical: African-American family in Greenville (Miss.) 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. 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.; Content: Three photographs have been transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division
Physical Description: Extent: 26 items (one folder)
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Sc MG 263; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11524015; MSS Unit ID: 20583; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 11deadd0-9fbf-013a-d13a-0242ac110002

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