Letters: Thomas Ginn Wallingford

There doesn't seem to be any real explanation for why these particular letters were saved - they relate mostly to the 1880s, but also one letter that T.G. would have received not before his death in 1909.

As near as I can tell, the letters would probably have been in a box of T.G.'s things that were kept by his widow, Annie Tucker Wallingford. At some point in the 1930s, her grandson (my father) John Roland Wallingford picked them up from a shed behind a house that Annie's daughter Minnie Devoss Wallingford Noe had been living in. Another item from that box was the pages from the Wallingford family Bible...

We have only two letters that T.G. wrote to others (one to his wife while away at the Civil War, one to a daughter in the 1890s).

Several years ago, I scanned, transcribed and commented on most of the letters to make them more 'approachable'...

Click on the icon in front of the letter to see it.

Letter to wife Evaline, 19 May 1862

John Wallingford (nephew), 2 December 1873

Hiram Wallingford (brother), 3 October 1881

Hiram Wallingford (brother), 21 September 1882

Hiram Wallingford (brother), 8 February 1884

Eliza Jones (niece), 11 January 1885

Hiram Wallingford (brother), 27 September 1886

Louis Wallingford (brother), 16 April 1888

Louis Wallingford (brother), 24 October 1888

Louis Wallingford (brother), 3 October 1889

Letter from T.G.'s son Tom to Eliza 'Lide' Moore, 30 September 1891

Letter to daughter Eliza 'Lide' Moore, 18 October 1891

J.W. Powers (attorney, relation) - several letters, 1900

John Devoss (married a niece) - 11 March 1909 (T.G. died 2 months later)