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From: "John R. Clarke" <>
Subject: [GAMORGAN] Burge Family
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:10:07 -0500


BURGE FAMILY (# 266)
Papers, 1832-1952; 5 boxes, 1 BV, 1 reel of microfilm
Dolly Sumner Lunt (1817-1891) of Bowdoinham, Maine, married three times:
Samuel Harding Brown Lewis (1838), a physician, with whom she moved to
Zebulon (1842), then Madison, Georgia; Thomas Burge (1850), a planter and
owner of the Burge Plantation, located east of Covington, Georgia; and
William Justice Parks (1866), a Methodist clergyman of Oxford, Georgia.
After the death of her third husband, Dolly Parks returned to Burge
Plantation to live. The diaries of Dolly Burge Parks, (1847-1879), describe
life in Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The diary of her
daughter, Sadai [Sarah Cornelia] B. Gray, describes a trip she made to
Brooklyn, New York from July through September, 1864, and that of Dolly's
step-daughter Louisiana Burge (1860-1862), recounts life at Wesleyan Female
College in Macon, Georgia.

Source: Emory University - Special Collections & Archives - Guide to Women's
Diaries

John R. Clarke
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