Box 6

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the Caperton-Burnam Family Papers can be found in the following Correspondence Series. Mrs. Katherine Caperton was well organized individual who preserved an overwhelming volume of correspondence throughout her lifetime. The following folders reflect her practices, and may be considered perhaps her most lasting material legacy. It should be noted that Mrs. Caperton also preserved a clearly articulated and planned narrative for her close family and self in the bound letter...

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"Hearty" was the affectionate nickname that Albert Lacey Russel called Mrs. Caperton, his aunt. Albert Russel was the only child of Mrs. Caperton's sister Minerva Phelps and her first husband John Hooe Russel. Albert wrote extensively to his aunt and once he married his wife, Caroline also contributed to the correspondence.

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The exciting and later somber correspondence in the following folder all relate to the birth and premature death of Col. and Mrs. Caperton's second daughter, Katherine Caperton. For additional details on Katherine's life and unfortunate passing see Box 40, An Accumulation of Evidence, Vol. I.