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Scope and Content Note The collection includes personal materials of the members of the extended Core family, including both Mr. and Mrs. Core's parents and grandparents, as well as their children and Mrs. Core's siblings. These range from diaries, scrapbooks, and correspondence to financial and medical records. The collection also contains materials gathered by Dorothy Core in her historical and genealogical research. They address four distinct areas of history--colonial Arkansas, Arkansas County after...

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The papers consist of three series--correspondence, family papers, and photographs. Papers include genealogical records, Civil War military records, property records (including a tax valuation of enslaved people), farm produce notebooks, Shreve family photographs and photographs of Washington County subjects.

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Family and business papers pertaining to the Stephen W. Irby family of Desha County, Arkansas.

The Irby family papers consist almost entirely of business papers concerning the agricultural and legal concerns of Stephen W. Irby. Also included are four volumes of poetry written and copied by Mrs. Mattie E. Moore who was an employee of Irby in the early twentieth century.

Abstract

This collection consists of materials related to the Gillylen, Eley, and Stokes families of Pike County, Arkansas.

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of ledgers, legal documents, letters, and miscellaneous papers which pertain to the Johnson lands and the Wilson's farming operation. Divided into two series, the papers have been arranged in chronological order.

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The collection consists of correspondence, personal and business records, and a few photographs. The papers show how the Graves family's farm was financed, especially during the Great Depression and includes transactions with the Federal Land Bank and commercial banks, mortgage and loan records, and records pertaining to the Ozark Fruit Growers Association. Personal records include poll tax receipts, insurance policies, daily expense records and Odd Fellows records for 1910.