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Robert Lewis Cabe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1898

Content Description

The collection includes the papers of Robert Lewis Cabe, a Saline County, Arkansas-based Methodist minister, including diaries and records of his church work. Also included are two portraits of family members and a historical sketch of the Joseph Hope family, his wife Sarah Della Hope Cabe's family. As documented in the collection, Cabe's ministry work took him throughout Saline County and other parts of Arkansas, while he and his family lived in Benton for most of the time period documented in the collection.

Dates

  • circa 1912-1918

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Conditions Governing Use

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical / Historical

Robert Lewis Cabe (1880-1918) was a Methodist minister in Saline County, Arkansas.

Cabe was born June 15, 1880, in Tennessee, and moved to Saline County as a child. On October 8, 1905, he married Sarah Della Hope; the couple had seven children. After attending the University of Arkansas, Cabe was licensed to preach and admitted to the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1911. In 1913, he was ordained as a deacon, and as an elder in 1915. He served three years on the Leola Circuit, followed by an appointment to the Kingsland Circuit, and then to the Hampton Circuit. After contracting tuberculosis, he retired from ministry and moved to El Paso, Texas in April 1918; Cabe died later that year, on August 13.

Extent

0.98 Linear Feet (1 box)

Arrangement

Materials are arranged chronologically by format.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Robert Lewis Cabe Papers were donated to Special Collections by Cabe's granddaughter, Letitia Cabe Hitz of Springdale, Arkansas, on March 21, 2011.

Processing Information

Processed by Katrina Windon; completed November 2021.

Creator

Source

Title
Robert Lewis Cabe Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Katrina Windon
Date
November 2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444