Drawer 4

Wayne County (Economy, Indiana) Quaker family. Many items are letters from sons in the Union Army in the Civil War. Also a diary of a trip to Colorado in 1905 by Orlando Marshall and 84 letters to Alonzo Marshall and his family, 1857-1922.

Daniel Huff (1816-?) was a Wayne Co. Quaker and wagon shop owner in Newport (now Fountain City). Oliver N. Huff (1852-1937), his son, was a doctor. The mss. relate to the history of Newport and anti-slavery activities.

Civil war letters written to Sarah Ratliff (1859-1914): The bulk of the collection consists of letters written her by three of her brothers, two cousins and a friend while in the Union Army. John Miller Legg's (1831-1911) Diary and memorandum: Rush Co. farmer. The typescript of the diary also includes a history of the Legg family (p. 116-118) by Alice Rebecca Legg Mayse

She was a resident of Wayne Co. There are letters she received from family and friends. Included are letters from Cyrus Green, a pacifist during the Civil War, and Daniel P. Wooten, a member of the Union Army, giving contrasting Quaker views of the war.

Typed transcripts of monthly and quarterly meeting histories, and reminiscences, journals and letters of early Quakers. Primarily from Wayne Co.