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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2008- 16
Creator: Lines, Mary Ann.
Title, Dates: Lines family memory books and memorabilia, 1840-1870, (bulk 1850-1855).
Amount: 1 compact disks
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Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged.
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Terms Governing Use: Any use of the collection must include the following phrase in the acknowledgements: "Courtesy of the estate of Mrs. Sarah Lines Munroe."
Biographical/Historical:     Mary Ann Lines is the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Ann DuPont Lines (1836-1919), whose family moved to Quincy (Gadsden County), Florida, in 1819. Mary Ann DuPont and her older sister Eliza (1832-1851) were the daughters of Judge Charles Henry DuPont. Both girls attended Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia, where in 1852 Mary Ann was a leading founder of the Philomathean Society, later known as Phi Mu (1904), the second oldest women's sorority in the United States. In 1851, Eliza married Joseph Robinson Lines but died shortly after their marriage; Mary Ann married Joseph in 1854. They had four children and five grandchildren.
Summary:     This collection consists of one compact disk containing 92 images of two memory books and some jewelry items. Eliza and Mary Ann Dupont kept the memory books; the jewelry also belonged to Mary Ann. The memory books date from the late 1840s and contain autographs, essays, and mementos of the two girls.
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Subject Access Fields: Women Florida
Women History 19th century Florida
Scrapbooks. aat
Diaries. aat
Gadsden County (Fla.)
Quincy (Fla.)
Added Entries Lines, Mary Ann DuPont, 1836-1918.