Mary Esther Huger Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0196
The papers consist of correspondence, a genealogical chart, memoirs, a newsletter, two photographic prints and a copy of a sketch. The correspondence includes letters between family members, giving information about family events as well as letters between the donors and the library regarding the collections. The genealogical chart is a two page photostatic copy of a Huger family record, c. 1585-c. 1954. The memoirs consist of a photostatic copy of Mary Esther Huger's memoirs (the original being located in the Habersham-Elliott papers, Southern Historical Collection, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), recounting her childhood and descriptions of some of her neighbors and their homes; a separate section is devoted to the Prioleau family. They also include a typed copy of a shortened version of her memoirs and a photostatic copy of typed extracts from the memoirs of Elizabeth Pinckney Huger, in which she tells of the family's move to Pendleton after her mother's death, her caretaking of her sisters, Mary and Harriet, and, later, of the children of her sister Harriet. The newsletter is issue 12 (November 1971) of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area, which includes an article by Mary Stevenson entitled "Woodburn's Neighbors", that contains some information about the Huger family. The two photographic prints are of Mary Esther Huger (Mrs. Joseph Alston Huger), with her granddaughter, Esther Huger Elliott, taken from the print of an 1880 photograph from a daguerreotype of Col. Francis Kinloch Huger. The sketch is of "Long House", the Huger home in Pendleton, SC.
Mary Esther Huger was born in 1820, the daughter of Colonel Francis Kinloch Huger and Harriott Lucas ("Lucy") Pinckney Huger, (the daughter of General Thomas Pinckney and Elizabeth Motte Pinckney and sister to Thomas Pinckney, Jr., and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, owner of Woodburn). Mary Esther Huger's mother died December 27, 1824, in Philadelphia, PA. The year after her death, Col. Huger sold his estate, Clermont, near Statesburg, SC, and moved to Pendleton, SC, with six of his children: two sons, Cleland and Thomas Pinckney, and four daughters, Elizabeth Pinckney ("Lizzie"), Anne Isabella, Mary Esther and Harriet Horry ("Hagee"); his two eldest sons, Benjamin, who was at West Point, and Francis, who was a midshipman, did not move to Pendleton. At first Col. Huger rented Lowther Hall; the next year he purchased from his brother-in-law, Col. Thomas Pinckney, "Long House" (the name was changed from Altamont [I]). The family lived there twenty-two years. Mary Esther married her cousin, Joseph Alston Huger, on May 21, 1840, at her home. They had six sons and four daughters.
20 item(s) (including two photographs.)
English
Sarah Elliott Kean (Mrs. Rober H. Kean) donated memoirs and correspondence in 1969, accession 69-1; Mary Stevenson donated the photographs in 1971, accession 71-3; and Miss Clermont H. Lee donated memoirs in 1974, accession 74-2.
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