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Core Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1380
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...
Dates: 1723-1996
Found in: Special Collections Department / Core Family Papers

Fordyce Family Papers

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Identifier: MC 1311
Scope and Content Note The collection includes business records of the Fordyce Bath House (1913-1985), clippings about various family members and their activities, correspondence, journals, and much genealogical material. Some of the items pertain to families linked to the Fordyce family by marriage. Of particular note are a Civil War diary (1862-1865) kept by Mary Jane (Mrs. W. D.) Chadick, mother- in-law of Samuel Wesley Fordyce; a typescript of an overland journey diary (1853-1854) kept by David Sloan Stanley,...
Dates: circa 1400-1992
Found in: Special Collections Department / Fordyce Family Papers

Towell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 616
Scope and Content Note

The collection includes letters primarily written by members of the Towell family, Samuel Towell's certificate of registry for land in Clarksville, Arkansas, and one photograph (tintype). The letters pertain to early Arkansas, the Civil War, and the California Gold Rush. The tintype is of Nancy Atkins Towell, wife of Samuel Towell. Samuel and Nancy Towell had three sons: John H., William, and Isaac.

Dates: 1844-1861
Found in: Special Collections Department / Towell Family Papers

Haney Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 860
Scope and Content Note

The Haney family papers have been arranged chronologically in four series: correspondence, financial documents, legal documents, and miscellaneous papers, which include drawings of Samuel and Margaret Haney, the Haney homestead, and a courting poem, circa 1850s.

Dates: 1825-1980s
Found in: Special Collections Department / Haney Family Papers

Gray Family Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1618
Scope and Content Note The collection includes three volumes created by Virginia between 1863 and 1872 while she lived in Princeton and Little Rock, Arkansas. The first volume, her diary, elucidates her experience living in Princeton from 1863 to 1866. The second dates to around 1863 and features her artwork, including pencil sketches, small paintings of flowers, as well as photographs of family and friends. The third tells the story of her son, Carl, which is entitled, "The Diverting History of Little Tarley...
Dates: 1863-2006
Found in: Special Collections Department / Gray Family Materials

Johnson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2094
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, genealogical research, and other materials pertaining to the Johnson, Franklin, and Lightfoot families. Many family members lived in Arkansas throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Notable among the materials is an affidavit from Mary M. Lightfoot and M. L. Royston regarding their experience with an alleged theft of cotton by Union troops during the Civil War.

Dates: circa 1785-1960
Found in: Special Collections Department / Johnson Family Papers

Robert McCollom Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS M13f
Scope and Content Note Letters and other documents pertaining to the McCollom and Clark families of Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas, especially as regards the personal, domestic, familial, religious, business, and other affairs, 1862-1893, of Robert McCollom, his wife Sephronia Clark McCollom, and his son Ransom Clark McCollom, of Washington County, Arkansas; and to the military affairs of his son Albert O. McCollom, a private soldier in Co. E, 1st Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States Army from 1861...
Dates: 1835-circa 1958
Found in: Special Collections Department / Robert McCollom Family Papers

John Davis Hardgrave Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1318
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains a manuscript notebook, dated February 9, 1825-February 26, 1826; a land certificate of title to Hardgrave, July 10, 1844; a letter from Skelton Demass to Hardgrave, December 5, 1851; a commission for William B. Smedley in Arkansas State Militia, January 28, 1862; and a land certificate of title to Kerney L. Harman, May 9, 1885.

Dates: 1825-1885
Found in: Special Collections Department / John Davis Hardgrave Family Papers

Berry, Dickinson, Peel Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1372
Scope and Content Note The materials in this collection are primarily items collected by Ruth Dickinson Berry (1880-1973) and her daughter, Mary Berry Preston (1914-1997). The materials in the Berry, Dickinson, Peel Family Papers (1833-1977) are a diverse accumulation of records which include family correspondence; political, legal, and financial documents; school records; scrapbooks, albums, and notebooks; greeting cards; clipping files; notes for newspaper articles; records of institutions, clubs,...
Dates: 1830-1977; Majority of material found within 1890-1960
Found in: Special Collections Department / Berry, Dickinson, Peel Family Papers

Maxfield, Allen and McKee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1742
Scope and Content Note The first of half the collection contains the older genealogical records and papers of the Maxfield, Allen Family of Batesville (Independence County). There is correspondence from both branches of the Maxfield, Allen families. (A genealogical family tree can be found in Box 1, Folder 1.) The box contains letters from predominantly Grace Hawley (...
Dates: 1841-2008
Found in: Special Collections Department / Maxfield, Allen and McKee Family Papers

Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan Braly Family Papers Supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MS B72 Sup. 391A
Scope and Content Note

Two handwritten and signed letters from William Carrick Braly (1841-1920) to his mother, Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan Braly, of Cane Hill, AR: October 3, 1863. Arkadelphia, AR. 4 pages on 1 L. folded; Apr. 5, 1865. Blossom Prairie, Lamar County, Tex. 4 pages on 1 L. folded.

Dates: 1863-1865
Found in: Special Collections Department / Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan Braly Family Papers Supplement

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