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Scope and Content Note Six letters pertaining to settling in Arkansas, 1851-1854, and to Camp family genealogy, 1904-1905. Three of the letters were written by George C. Camp from Wileyville, Desha County (now probably Florence, Drew County), Arkansas, to his sister-in-law, Cornelia Camp, and to his brother, William C. Camp, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. They pertain to the George Camp family's new life in Arkansas. The other three letters were written by Julia Camp (widow of George C. Camp) to her...

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The Shaver Family Materials Collection is the original copy of The Shaver Family History. Materials include genealogical records, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.

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Genealogical materials and correspondence of the Ball family of Arkansas. Correspondence in collection consists of photocopies and transcriptions rather than originals; correspondents include Nancy Ball, J. S. Ball, Jane Ball Tucker, Ann Ball, Matilda Ball Welborn, and others, particularly of Pleasant Hill, Arkansas and Atlas, Illinois, writing to Lucinda Ball Robison of Washington County, Arkansas. Topics include family, health, and farming.

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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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The collection contains materials related to the Van Hoose Family, primarily of Washington County, Arkansas, and includes photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, a book on family genealogy, and two issues of the Fayetteville, Arkansas newspaper The Arkansas Countryman. Photograph subjects include schools in Harris and in Elkins, as well as Van Hoose family members.

Scope and Content Note The Hardin-Stark Family Materials contain the genealogy of several families including, Bollinger, Faqua, Greathouse, Hardin, Harton, Melvill, Mitchell, Moore, Quinn, and Stark. Also include in this collection are tax and deed records relating to the Hardin-Stark family holdings in Arkansas. In addition, the collection contains photographs and a scrapbook belonging to Martha Mitchell Stark tracing her...

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The collection contains family correspondence, financial papers, genealogical and biographical papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and photocopies of photographs.

Scope and Content Note The papers consist of correspondence, documents, genealogical material and images, including photograph albums. The material was collected and compiled by Laurene Putman Compton. The majority of the papers and images are illustrative of life in Pea Ridge, ca. 1920-1929. Families about whom Laurene collected information include the Lees and other branches of Putmans. Photographs and correspondence occasionally refer to the Civil War. There is a detailed photograph album of Laurene's life from...