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Warner Family Materials

Collection

Identifier: MC 1733

Content Description

The collection contains materials related to the Warner family, primarily of Lawrence County, Arkansas, and in particular to drugstore owner and local historian L. R. Warner, and to his brother, R. B. Warner. Materials include family correspondence and obituaries; clippings and writings on Lawrence County history; clippings, notes, and photographs relating to Walnut Ridge's Old River Outing Club; and other family materials and ephemera.

Dates: circa 1877-2007

Found in: Special Collections Department / Warner Family Materials

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

Reagan Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 755

Scope and Content Note Series 1. Essays written by Z. Lytton Reagan, a student at the University of Arkansas (then the Arkansas Industrial University) and photographs pertaining to the University and Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity. The material consists of several essays written by Lytton Reagan while he was in the Preparatory Department and a number of photographs apparently collected during his years at the University. The original donation also included Reports and Bulletins of the University, removed and cataloged...

Dates: 1895-1930

Found in: Special Collections Department / Reagan Family Papers

Shaver Family Materials

Collection

Identifier: MC 1759

Scope and Content Note

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

Dates: ca. 1990

Found in: Special Collections Department / Shaver Family Materials

Quesenbury Family Papers

Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 7

Identifier: MC 1003

Scope and Content Note The materials in this collection include a scrapbook consisting of a series of newspaper articles about William Minor Quesenbury published in the Arkansas Gazette in 1932 and 1940. Two photographs, taken in 1940, of original sketches drawn by Quesenbury in the 1870s, are also included, along with a portrait of Emily Lynch, a resident of Van Buren in the 1870s who married a member of the Quesenbury family. An undated courtship note to Emily signed by "Mr. Cush," a page of clippings from the...

Dates: circa 1853-1950s

Found in: Special Collections Department / Quesenbury Family Papers

Caraway Family Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MC 2550

Content Description Scrapbook of materials related to the Caraway family, and particularly to Arkansas Senator Hattie Wyatt Caraway. The scrapbook was compiled primarily by Mary Sue Todd Renfro (a grand-niece of Hattie Caraway) and her daughter, Nancy Todd Renfro. The scrapbook includes correspondence, photographs, genealogical research, newspaper clippings, and copies of vital records such as marriage and death certificates. Those identified in photographs include Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Thaddeus Caraway, Paul...

Dates: circa 1900-2007

Found in: Special Collections Department / Caraway Family Scrapbook

Basore Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 2241

Content Description The collection contains materials, predominantly correspondence, related to the Basore family of Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri. Much of the correspondence is by or between siblings George W. Basore, Francis Marion (F.M.) Basore, and Abraham Denver (A.D.) Basore, and many letters relate to the Kingston Roller Mill of Kingston, Arkansas, which several family members were involved with. As described by the donor, Wayne Clark, in his introduction to the collection, "The letters are mostly...

Dates: 1883-2011

Found in: Special Collections Department / Basore Family Papers

Norwood Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 2536

Content Description

Photographs, correspondence, scrapbook, business ledger, and other materials pertaining to the Norwood family of Sevier County, Arkansas. The bulk of the materials are related to J. P. Norwood and to his wife, Demma Dooley Norwood.

Dates: circa 1853-1982

Found in: Special Collections Department / Norwood Family Papers

Ball Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 1477

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1839-1994

Found in: Special Collections Department / Ball Family Papers

Proft Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 2551

Content Description

The collection consists of records relating to the Proft family, and particularly to Paul Otto Proft and his wife, Florence Ellenor Beers Proft. Many Proft family members lived in Mena, Arkansas and Polk County; the collection particularly includes materials related to Mena's Trinity Lutheran Church. Materials include scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, vital records, memoirs, and genealogical research. Much of the genealogical research was compiled by Helena Beers Buechner.

Dates: circa 1870-2020

Found in: Special Collections Department / Proft Family Papers

Vancleave Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 1399

Scope and Content Note The collection contains letters of George J. Rodgers and Rozalee Bishop [Rodgers] from Jan 1, 1883 to Aug 22, 1884; Rodgers family correspondence, e.g., letters from his daughter, Lois Vancleave, his nephews and nieces; business correspondence and financial papers, ca 1914-1950; Rozalee Bishop Rodgers Memoirs Book; correspondence and other papers of Lois Vancleave ca 1920s and 1960s; and photographs. Most of the photographs are unidentified but some portraits have the labels of local...

Dates: 1883-1966

Found in: Special Collections Department / Vancleave Family Papers

Faucette Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 832

Scope and Content Note

Family charts, copies of wills, other legal documents, photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and other material pertaining to the Faucette, Old, Leard, Peck, and related families, mostly of North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Includes service records from the Revolutionary War through the 1970s. Positive photocopies. 4 vols., 836 pp.

Dates: 1700s - 1987

Found in: Special Collections Department / Faucette Family Papers

Futrall Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 543

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, papers, and photographs, 1831-1985. Materials in this collection pertain to the Futrall family as a whole, with a special emphasis on Annie Duke Futrall and particularly on John Clinton Futrall, President of the University of Arkansas from 1914-1939.

Dates: 1831-1985

Found in: Special Collections Department / Futrall Family Papers

Martin Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 859

Scope and Content Note

Diaries, correspondence, legal documents, and photographs pertaining to the Benjamin Wilson Martin family of Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas.

Materials in Series 3, Literary Productions, include research notes pertaining to the Martin family papers created by the donors, Barkley Eddins and Jo Ann Pugh.

Dates: 1847-1945

Found in: Special Collections Department / Martin 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 / Gregg Family Papers

Watson Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MC 1739

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of letters written by Elizabeth Patey Watson and her daughter, Elizabeth “Betty” C. Watson. Within the text, information is given about family members and familial association, daily life in Tennessee and Arkansas, and personal and family health.

Dates: 1848-1854

Found in: Special Collections Department / Watson Family Correspondence

Dean Family Materials

Collection

Identifier: MC 1719

Scope and Content Note The collection includes correspondence, photographs, albums and financial documents pertaining to various members of the Dean family. The collection also includes Larrabee family materials; Dora's sister, Bertha Dean, married Ray Larrabee on February 24, 1926. The "Personal Documents" refers to material formerly in a binder labeled as...

Dates: 1900-1989

Found in: Special Collections Department / Dean Family Materials

Letsch Family Materials

Collection

Identifier: MC 1780

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains materials pertaining to a potato-digger patent, correspondence, magazine, and government documents.

Dates: 1885-1931

Found in: Special Collections Department / Letsch Family Materials

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

Davis Family Materials

Collection

Identifier: MC 1813

Scope and Content Note

This collection includes genealogical materials, correspondence, legal materials, election materials, awards and certificates.

Dates: 1878-1970

Found in: Special Collections Department / Davis Family Materials

Whittington Family Letters

Collection

Identifier: MC 519

Scope and Contents

Negative microfilm copies of letters sent to Granville Whittington of Boston, Massachusetts, from his father William, sister Irene, and brother, Hiram Abiff Whittington, a printer who emigrated to Arkansas Territory in 1826. Persons mentioned in the letters include William E. Woodruff, Robert Crittenden, and Cephas Washburn. Places from which the letters were written include Cohassett, Nantucket, and Boston, Massachusetts; and Little Rock and Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Dates: 1824-1834

Found in: Special Collections Department / Whittington Family Letters

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 / 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 / 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 / Pyeatt Family Papers

Williford Family Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MC 1624

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains photographs of members of the Williford, Leighty, Roberson and Nuckols families ca. 1910-1920 who lived in Desha County and were presumably all related. The photographs are all identified by family members present, and occasionally by location. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by family.

Dates: ca. 1910-1920

Found in: Special Collections Department / Williford Family Photographs

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