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December 25, 1850

Broadside 185- .Y67 Box, Special Collections, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Eliza Yonce Was Invited to Attend a Party

This document is an invitation to a Christmas party held at the Wytheville Hotel in a year when Christmas fell on a Thursday. Thursday Christmases occurred in 1851 and in 1856. The invitation recipient, Eliza Yonce may have been either Elizabeth Mary Yonce born March 12, 1830, in Wythe County or Eliza Jane Yonce born to the same family on November 13, 1836.