University of Wyoming
Lucy Bender was a resident of San Antonio, Texas at the time of her death in 1962. Truth Alcorn Young was the daughter of Lucy and Walter Lloyd Bender. She was a resident first of Pharr, Texas with her first husband and then of Encampment, Wyoming. It was Encampment where Truth returned in the 1970s to live in the Bender family home.
Collection contains 37 maps of individual Civil War battlefields, maps of the southern states, and other miscellaneous maps; diaries; letters and a letter press; pamphlets; books; magazines; manuscripts; photographs; military records; genealogy notes and stories; newspapers; ledgers; scrapbooks; and miscellaneous documents.
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Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
This material was received from Lucy Bender and Truth Alcorn Young between June 1950 and May 1980.
There are no known other archival collections created by the Bender Family at the date of processing.
The American Heritage Center is in the process of converting its older container lists to a more accessible format. This link is to an older version of a container list for 35 boxes.