Account book (January 1920 - March 1923) of funerals and related expenses
Scope and Contents
Accounts (beginning on page 200) appear chronologically under the name of the person or party responsible for payment. Account notations, with amounts and dates paid, include such items as coffins, embalming, hearses, cemetery and church fees. A roughly alphabetical index (of those paying for the funerals) includes person's address, name of deceased (except if an infant), and often relationship to the person paying, with place of burial (town, or cemetery) given. The front of the volume documents rentals of hearses and cars to N.C. Boags, Swinton and Dandridge, Julius Fielding, R.F. Holmes, Eugene Gadsen, R.M. Snype, Mickey Brothers. List is continued on p. 500. Related letters and bills are paper clipped to pages. Casket orders and expenses are also listed. 600 pages.
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1958
Creator
- From the Collection: Harleston Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Material is in English
Access Restrictions
Papers have been microfilmed. Researchers are required to use microfilm.
Box 1 - See Reel 1
Box 2 - See Reel 2
Box 3 - See Reel 3
Box 4 - See Reel 4
Box 4 - See Reel 4
Box 5 - See Reel 5
Box 6 - See Reel 6
Box 7 - See Reel 7
Extent
From the Collection: 3.5 linear feet (7 archival boxes)
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
125 Bull Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
843-953-7608
averyresearchcenter@cofc.edu