These Confederate bonds belonged to Amelia Hord, the wife of Tom E. Hord, of Elmwood in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The sum of $500 was to have been payed on July 1, 1875, with 8% interest payable semi-annually.
Newspaper clipping requesting donations to pay off the $12,500 mortgage of the farm purchased by the Nashville Rotary Club and presented to Alvin York for his exploits in World War I. It encourages everyone to make a donation to York, declaring...
$500 Confederate bond: "Two years after the Ratification of a Treaty between the Confederate States & United States the C.S.A. will pay to the bearer on demand $500." Handed down in the family from Sherman Blair.
