Daisy DeCosta Caffey -- Tax Receipt, 1939
Collection Overview
The DeCosta family papers are arranged in two series according to chronological family history.
1. DeCosta Family Papers, 1870-2010, documents the educational pursuits and the personal and professional lives of numerous members of the DeCosta family through photographs, diplomas, correspondence, newspaper clippings, funeral service programs and obituaries, published writings, and ephemera. Family members represented in the collection include: Martha Adams DeCosta, Benjamin Rhodes DeCosta, Anna Harrinburg DeCosta, Elizabeth DeCosta Sartor, Augustus G. Sartor, Wilbur M. Sartor, Barbara DeCosta Walden, Georgianna H. Price, Anna DeCosta Hunter, Daisy DeCosta Caffey, Robert S. DeCosta Higgins, Eugenia DeCosta Higgins, St. Julian L. DeCosta, Raymond T. DeCosta, Harold Chase DeCosta, Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Monique Ariel Sugarmon, the Hubert family (grandparents of Miriam DeCosta-Willis), Geraldine Stevenson DeCosta, and Benjamin R. DeCosta.
2. Oversize DeCosta Family Papers, 1904-1905, and Undated contains the oversize material within the collection and includes a portrait photograph of Martha Adams DeCosta and Daisy Madeline and Elizabeth Marion DeCosta's diplomas from the Avery Normal Institute.
Dates
- Creation: 1939
Creator
- From the Collection: DeCosta family (Family)
- From the Collection: Price, Georgianna H., 1934-2006 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hunter, Anna E., 1915-2012 (Person)
- From the Collection: Caffey, Daisy A., 1892-1977 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta Higgins, Robert S., 1932-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta Higgins, Eugenia N., 1898-1993 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta, St. Julian L., 1900-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta, Raymond T., 1904-1941 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta, Harold C., 1907-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: DeCosta-Willis, Miriam (Person)
- From the Collection: Sugarmon, Monique A. (Person)
Language of Materials
Material is in English and Spanish
Access Restrictions
No Restrictions.
Biographical / Historical
Daisy Alethia Caffey (née DeCosta) (1892-1977) was the third child of Benjamin and Anna DeCosta. She earned a bachelor's degree from Allen University and a master's degree from South Carolina State College. She worked in education for many years, including as a professor at Allen University and as an English teacher at Burke High School in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Lightburne Bennett Caffey and had one son, Dr. Bennett L. Caffey, Jr.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 0.83 linear feet (2 full Hollinger boxes and 3 oversize folders; 64 photographs, 53 negatives; 1 CD-R disc, and 1 floppy disk)
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