Box 1

Abstract Rebecca Washington was the daughter of Sallie Wright Washington (b.1811) and George W. Washington (1809-1876), who was descended from a brother of President George Washington. Sallie Wright, along with her brother and sister, had co-inherited Ridgedale farm from her grandfather, Major Robert Lockhart. When Sallie married, the land passed to her and her husband, and they built a log cabin on it circa 1832. The large home they built in 1835, where Rebecca grew up, is now on the National...

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This collection contains twenty-five letters, with original envelopes, sent to Rebecca Washington (1839-1904) between 1853 and 1864.  The collection also includes a printed photo of the student body at Berea College, c.1906; a booklet given to Rebecca’s daughters, Lucy and Sally Rees, in 1898; and Lucy’s 1868 Bible, with some mementos saved in its pages.

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Envelopes, some stamped, some embossed. Hampshire County addresses give Virginia as the location, not West Virginia. The envelopes come from Wheatlands, VA, the home of Rebecca.

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Bible published in 1868 and inscribed to Lucy Rees, apparently in 1876. Several pressed flowers are preserved in it, and some clippings, mostly poems or sayings, the latest of which is from 1955. The earliest is an undated notice of the death of George Washington Blue, age 5, near a bridge [1889]. George was Lucy’s cousin; he was the child of Rebecca’s youngest sister, Sallie, who married James Blue in 1881.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains twenty-five letters, with original envelopes, sent to Rebecca Washington (1839-1904) between 1853 and 1864.  The collection also includes a printed photo of the student body at Berea College, c.1906; a booklet given to Rebecca’s daughters, Lucy and Sally Rees, in 1898; and Lucy’s 1868 Bible, with some mementos saved in its pages.

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Tattered Berea school photo torn from a printed book, ca. 1910; the sheet is 7.5" by 20". President Frost is in the photo, as are the Carnegie library and Phelps Stokes Chapel, along with students from all levels of the school.