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Waggoner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1337
Scope and Content Note
The Waggoner Family Papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers, miscellaneous family documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, autograph album, and three monographs.
Dates:
1865-1945
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Waggoner Family Papers
Walker Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 584
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, property records, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to Judge David Walker and the Walker family. Included are materials related to the service of David Walker and other family members in the Confederate Army during the U. S. Civil War, as well as materials related to David Walker's judicial and legal career, and to Senator James David Walker's legal and political career.
Dates:
circa 1778-1980
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Walker Family Papers
Hudson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2392
Abstract
Materials related to the Hudson family of Arkansas, including copies of a personal memoir and Civil War letter.
Dates:
1865, undated
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Hudson Family Papers
Gregg Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1000
Scope and Content Note
Family and legal papers pertaining to the Lafayette Gregg family of Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. The family papers consist of letters, biographical materials, invitations, diplomas, poetry, tax receipts, deeds, financial papers, and newspaper clippings. Of particular interest in the family letters are those written by Russell Cravens Gregg while serving with the U.S. Army at Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in France during World War One. The legal papers consist of court...
Dates:
1839-1983
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Gregg 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
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Gray Family Materials
Lighton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 779
Scope and Content Note
The papers pertain primarily to William Rheem Lighton (1866- 1923), his wife Laura McMaken Lighton (1869-1948) and their children, Dorothy (1893-1967), Louis Duryea (1895-1963), Suzanne Chalfant (1905-1978), and Betty (b. 1912). Most of the papers were collected and saved by daughters Suzanne and Betty. Included are materials pertaining to their extended family, in particular, Dorothy Lighton's children and grandchildren and Laura McMaken's father, Andrew Campbell McMaken. These...
Dates:
1828-1987
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Lighton Family Papers
Peters Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 917
Scope and Content Note
The papers pertain primarily to Arthur Nelson Peters (Jay Hale's grandfather) and his business, the Ball and Peters Railroad and General Contractors Company of Little Rock. The papers consist of three series--family papers, property records, and business records. Series 1, Family Papers, includes Peters family histories, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, correspondence during World War I, military records, poems from the 1850's and 1860's, and...
Dates:
1854-1972
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Peters Family Papers
Pyeatt Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1628
Scope and Content Note
The Pyeatt Family Papers primarily contains correspondence between Jesse H. Pyeatt, who served with the Confederate army during the Civil War, and his wife Matilda Woodruff Pyeatt. While the correspondence provides little historical or genealogical information concerning these families, it offers significant insight into the wartime experiences of these families. Also included are letters between far-flung members of these families that elucidate hardships brought about by the war....
Dates:
1855-1891
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Pyeatt Family Papers
Harper Family Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 2277
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains materials regarding the Harper family, including a letter from Rachel Harper writing from Montezuma, Indiana, to one of her sons informing him of the death of his brother, Derastus Harper, who fought in the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Marks' Mills (Cleveland County, Arkansas), as well as of the birth of his nephew, William Albert; research notes and a transcription of the letter created by Jeremy Oborny; and genealogical notes on Daniel Harper and other family...
Dates:
1866-2018
Roots Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS R679 348
Scope and Content Note
Copies of correspondence, diaries, certificates, lists, map, military, genealogical, business and legal records, photographs, and other published and unpublished materials created, received, or collected by Logan Holt Roots (1841-1893), Philander Keep Roots (1838-1921), or members of their families. Material pertains to: the military, business, political, personal, familial, and other activities and interests of soldier, planter, political leader, banker, and railroad developer L.H. Roots,...
Dates:
1842-1907
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Roots Family Papers
Badgett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 133
Scope and Content Note
The material consists primarily of letters to and from members of the Badgett family in Caswell County, North Carolina, and in Jefferson, Texas. The letters pertain to human trafficking of enslaved persons, farming, impressions and observations of Thomas J. Badgett while he was a student at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and at the University of Pennsylvania (events include the execution of John Brown), the Civil War, and conditions and events in Texas following the Civil War. Other papers...
Dates:
1843-1877
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Badgett Family Papers
Carrigan Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1458
Scope and Content Note
The Carrigan Family Papers consists of correspondence, diaries, account books, photographs, and other papers of the family and relations of Alfred Holt Carrigan and Mary Elizabeth Moore Carrigan. It also includes genealogical materials pertaining to the families of Alfred Holt Carrigan’s parents, the Carrigans and the Holts, as well as similar materials pertaining to the families of Mary Elizabeth Moore Carrigan’s parents, the Moores and the Bethells. The collection includes antebellum...
Dates:
1778-2001
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Carrigan Family Papers
Shreve Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 635
Scope and Content Note
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.
Dates:
1810-1975
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Shreve Family Papers
McIlroy Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 790
Scope and Content Note
The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and business records and have been grouped into four series; Powell-Rhea, Rhea-McIlroy, Lincoln land records, and Photographs.
Dates:
1846-1979
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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McIlroy Family Papers
Burrow Family Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1996
Scope and Content Note
Materials in this collection were collected by Margaret Whillock (1935- ), her grandmother, Hattie McClure Gilbert Burrow, and her aunt, Sallie Landis Burrow (1888-1964).Materials relate to the Burrows family; the Civil War in Tennessee; slavery; the Republican Party; and political campaigns in Arkansas, circa 1904-1926.Materials include correspondence; family histories and genealogical notes; obituaries; awards and certificates; financial documents; speeches;...
Dates:
circa 1825-1966
Engels-Kinnibrugh Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 554
Scope and Content Note
Letters, papers, and photographs pertaining to the Engels-Kinnibrugh families of Farmington, Washington County, Arkansas.
Dates:
1837-1970
Butler-Paisley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 514
Scope and Content Note
The correspondence pertains primarily to family matters in Tulip and elsewhere, religious concerns, business and other travel, the Civil War, emigration to California and Texas, and business matters. The business records pertain mostly to William Paisley's general stores in Dobyville and Guerdon, Arkansas. Most of the family correspondence (series 1 and 2) consists of letters written to and from members of the Butler and Paisley families. Other correspondents include Emma's...
Dates:
circa 1829-1899
Shinn-Munday Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2451
Abstract
Family correspondence, Civil War records, and other documents pertaining to the Shinn and Munday families of Pope County, Arkansas.
Dates:
circa 1833-1893
Nathan Strong Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1210
Scope and Content Note
Letters, memoranda books, court docket books, and account books created by or pertaining to Wesley, Watson, and Henry Strong. The Nathan Strong family papers consist of letters written by Strong family members and acquaintances, including wartime letters written by Wesley Strong from Virginia and Mississippi during 1861 and 1862. An additional Civil War letter written to James Prior of Tulip, Arkansas, from Captain George Alexander of the Third Arkansas Infantry in 1861 is also...
Dates:
1851-1937
Edmonson-Thomas Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1242
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes financial records of the Edmondson/Edmonson family, as well as a discharge certificate for Captain Benjamin Thomas.
Dates:
1854-1919
Hughes-McDonald Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 641
Scope and Content Note
The Hughes-McDonald Family Papers consist of letters, promissory notes, legal documents, and photographs pertaining to the Hughes-McDonald families of Franklin County, Arkansas. Most of the letters in the collection were written by geographically distant relatives of the Hughes-McDonald families. A substantial number are from the Bledsoe family of Alabama. Cousins to Polly Ann McDonald, the Bledsoes wrote to her and her father throughout the years prior to the Civil War and...
Dates:
1820-1912
Lanktree-Wilson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS W691 38
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, journals, notebooks, poems, hymns, essays, obituaries, sketches, photographs and other materials created, received, or collected by teacher Arabella Lanktree Wilson, by her son, soldier, engineer, and businessman William H. D. Wilson [ see biographical sketches], or by other members of her family. Materials pertain, for the most part, to the personal, familial, religious, educational, military and other activities and interests of the Lanktree and Wilson families while...
Dates:
1823-1876
Wilbur G. Hanks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1270
Scope and Content Note
The collection pertains primarily to three generations of the Hanks family: Green P. and Fanny Hanks, Wilbur G. and Martha Hanks, and Ora Joe Hanks of Johnson, Arkansas. Green P. Hanks (1838, Boonsboro, Arkansas-1929) served in the US army during the Civil War and was honorably discharged in 1865. Wilbur G. Hanks (1870-1931) was justice of the peace in Johnson, Arkansas. Ora Joe Hanks graduated from the Fayetteville, Arkansas, High School in 1922 and received the Teachers' Course certificate...
Dates:
circa 1864-1950
Joseph Hubbard Jones Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 322
Scope and Content Note
Materials relating to the family of Joseph Hubbard Jones of Desha County, Arkansas. The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs, and includes images from a 1916 flood in Watson, Arkansas. Also included is a positive photocopy of reminiscences entitled "Sketch of My Army Life from 1861 to 1865," by Corporal Joseph Hubbard Jones, Company D, First Arkansas Infantry. Apparently written in the late nineteenth century, this autobiographical essay by Jones is a thumbnail sketch of his...
Dates:
circa 1849-1997
Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS Sh92 410
Scope and Content Note
Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford's school autograph book and eighteen letters, most of which are from Emma to her father, John Franklin Ramsaur (1819-1904) of Hamburg, Arkansas, written while she attended school in North and South Carolina during the Civil War. Included, however, are letters exchanged between other Ramsaur family members in North Carolina, Arkansas and California. Also included are: clippings of a published letter from Garland Julius Shuford (1876-1912) to his family, written in...
Dates:
1850-1900
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