Thomas Thweatt Jones papers, 1757-1979 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Jones, Thomas Thweatt, 1906-1991
Abstract:
Physician and resident of Durham, North Carolina. Collection consists of correspondence (chiefly 1947-1974), writings, reports, printed material, clippings, and other papers, relating to Jones's interest as a physician in alcoholism, mental health, and agathanasia (the care of the dying), and his activities with the Durham Council on Alcoholism and Medical Society of the state of North Carolina. There are also letters, photographs, writings, legal and financial papers, and other items relating to the Jones, Scanlun, Blackwell, and Graver families of North Carolina and Virginia (Dinwiddie County and other places). Collection highlights include a memoir of Rev. George White discussing slave-owner relations prior to and during the Civil War; photographs of Shenandoah Normal College (Reliance, Va.); records of Jones's service on the staff of the 65th General Hospital in England during World War II (affiliated with the Duke School of Medicine); Mrs. Jones's high school scrapbook and her journals of 1923 and 1926 trips abroad; and a photograph album and other scrapbooks.
Extent:
6.5 Linear Feet
Approx. 8100 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00649

Background

Scope and content:

The Thomas Thweatt Jones papers consist of correspondence (chiefly 1947-1974), writings, memoranda, reports, printed material, clippings, and other papers, relating to Jones's interest as a physician in alcoholism, mental health, and agathanasia (the care of the dying), and his activities with the Durham Council on Alcoholism and Medical Society of the state of North Carolina. There are also letters, photographs, writings, legal and financial papers, and other items relating to the Jones, Scanlun, Blackwell, and Graver families history and genealogy.

Collection highlights include a memoir of Rev. George White discussing slave-owner relations prior to and during the Civil War; photographs of Shenandoah Normal College (Reliance, Va.) students and faculty; personal correspondence; clippings and printed publications dealing with alcoholism and agathanasia, a term Dr. Jones adopted referring to a patient's right to die; records of Jones's service on the staff of the 65th General Hospital during World War II; Mrs. Jones's high school scrapbook; a photograph album; journals of her 1923 and 1926 trips abroad; and genealogical materials, including a sketch by Dr. Jones of his brother, Dr. Robert R. Jones, Jr., one of the original staff members of Duke Hospital. Robert Jones was killed in 1941 by a patient.

Biographical / historical:

Thomas Thweatt Jones, whose family was originally from Dinwiddie County, Virginia, was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1906 to Robert Randolph Jones and Sallie B. Jones. He married Mary Cuyler Scanlon. Jones passed away in 1991 in Jacksonville, Alabama.

Acquisition information:
The Thomas Thweatt Jones papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1974-1975 and 1987.
Processing information:

Processed by Rubenstein Library staff

Encoded by Paula Jeannet and Willeke Sandler, November 2013

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