FRIES AND SHAFFNER FAMILY PAPERS, #4046, 1848-1919
Largely personal correspondence of Francis Fries (1812-1863) and his family of Salem, North Carolina, and of his daughter, Carrie
(Fries) Shaffner (1839-1922) and her husband, J.
F. Shaffner (1838-1908), a Confederate surgeon
in North Carolina and Virginia. Letters discuss Carrie Fries' social encounters with
abolitionists in Philadelphia (1857) and news of the health,
illnesses, and deaths among Fries slaves in Salem (1860). Microfilm
available.
