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Mitchell Sparks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS Sp4
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and other material pertaining to the business, commercial, and legal affairs of Fort Smith, Arkansas merchant Mitchell Sparks, to the firm of Mitchell and Parke, and to the personal, familial, political, religious, educational, social, business, and legal affairs of the related Sparks- Bennett- Barling-Kannady-Pryor families, principally in and around Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas and the Indian Territory....
Dates:
1835-1909
Hawkins-Walker Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1562
Scope and Content Note
This collection includes family correspondence, largely to Jane Curl Walker Hawkins from her siblings, children, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren, including letters from her son, James William Hawkins, who went to California during the Gold Rush, and from L. Brodie, her grandson, who writes from the Civil War. Other...
Dates:
1823-1935
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
Elizabeth Hilliard Peterson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1314
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains family correspondence, financial papers, genealogical and biographical papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and photocopies of photographs.
Dates:
circa 1870-1991
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
Nathan Strong Family Papers Addendum
Collection
Identifier: MC 1221
Scope and Content Note
The collection is essentially a continuation of the Nathan Strong Family Papers (MC 1210). The collection includes personal and business correspondence; invoices, receipts, loose pages from account books detailing sales from Henry Strong's store, and promissory notes; court orders, witness testimonials, depositions, sworn affidavits, arrest warrants, bail and hire bonds; freedmen contracts; and other miscellaneous papers. In this collection there are also documents created by other Justices...
Dates:
ca 1847-1892
Benjamin T. DuVal Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1212
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of personal and professional papers created or collected by members of the Benjamin T. DuVal family. The DuVal family papers represent the combined collections of at least three of the six children of William DuVal, an early settler of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Benjamin, Catherine, and Susan DuVal were the creators and collectors of most of the papers which were afterwards passed on to Marie DuVal Johnston, the daughter of Benjamin DuVal and his second wife,...
Dates:
1816-1957
Engels-Kinnibrugh Family Papers, Addendum
Collection
Identifier: MC 1422
Scope and Content Note
The Engels-Kinnibrugh Family Papers contain letters and papers pertaining to the Engels-Kinnibrugh families of Farmington, Washington County, Arkansas. Most of the letters were written between 1859 and 1930 to William H. Engels and his family descendants by Abraham Allen Engels, the brother, Jane Engels, the sister, and their family members. William H. Engels' personal papers (1841-1916) comprise legal documents, agreements, a warranty deed, and invoices. The other papers...
Dates:
1824-1966
Myrtle McCormick Parks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 723
Scope and Content Note
Papers and photographs of the McCormick and Parks families of Prairie Grove. The three volumes include a United States Army ledger with incomplete entries recorded by Dr. McCormick's father, James W. McCormick (1833-1886). In the back pages of his ledger, the captured Confederate soldier documented his journey to a Union prisoner of war camp, which was possibly located in Grafton, West Virginia. Private McCormick of Company B, 35th Battalion, Virginia Calvary, was accompanied by...
Dates:
1865-1945
Benjamin Finis Greer Family Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: MS G75
Scope and Content Note
Reminiscence of Ben F. Greer pertaining to the genealogy and history of the Greer and Shannon families and to the history of Washington County. Published in Washington County Historical Society Bulletin.
Dates:
1941
Herbert Bradley Martin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 963
Scope and Content Note
Letters, legal documents, financial papers, scrapbook materials, and photographs pertaining to the Bradley, Martin, and Haegler families of Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas.
Dates:
1826-1978
Fred T. Jones Family Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1738
Scope and Content Note
Materials in this collection consists of biographical materials about members of the Jones, Chandler, and Griffin families. In addition the collection also contains correspondence, DVD of the Jones family history and photographs.
Dates:
1856-2007
Putman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1452
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...
Dates:
1900-1990
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Putman Family Papers
Swift Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1451
Scope and Content Note
The papers consist of photographs, photograph albums, a scrapbook, correspondence, professional and financial records, genealogical records, and recorded interviews. The material was created or collected by Dr. Charles Eugene Swift of Goshen and Elkins, Arkansas, and by members of his immediate family, especially his son Joseph Maxwell Swift, and by other descendants. The papers include photographs of individuals (ca. 1870-1977), their homes, schools, and activities. Of special...
Dates:
1876-1976
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Swift Family Papers
Stokenbury-Brashears Family Photograph Albums
Collection
Identifier: MC 1785
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains photographs and tintypes of members of the Stokenbury-Brashears family ca. 1900-1920. The photographs were removed from two deteriorating photo albums and separated into identified and unidentified images.
Dates:
ca. 1900-1920
Williams Family (Madison County) Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1839
Scope and Content Note
Materials in the collection include correspondence, newspaper clippings, class notes, bank documents, architectural blueprints, portraits, and miscellaneous other materials. The materials largely concern the personal matters of Ms. Alpha Williams; the blueprints in particular, however, speak specifically to her career as a rural social worker. Besides the above, there are as well certain documents signed by her brothers Mack and Earl Williams, and materials concerning other family...
Dates:
1919-1964
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
Irby Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 474
Scope and Content Note
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.
Dates:
1905-1941
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Irby Family Papers
Carl F. Lucky Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 561
Scope and Content Note
Positive photocopies of family papers of the Carl F. Lucky family were donated to Special Collections by Mrs. Carl Lucky, Sr. (Virginia Wells Lucky), Mrs. Carl Lucky, Jr, (Jane Sanders Lucky), and Mr. Carl Lucky, Jr., of McGehee, Arkansas, 15 November 1985. The original papers are owned by the donors of the photocopies. Most of the material originated with Lucinda G. Barvin of Georgia and was passed on to her daughter, Thereza Jane Garvin, who married the Reverend R. W....
Dates:
1851-1904; 1851-1854
Gilleylen-Eley-Stokes Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1653
Abstract
This collection consists of materials related to the Gillylen, Eley, and Stokes families of Pike County, Arkansas.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1885-2000
James W. Trimble Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 557
Scope and Content Note
Papers and photographs of James William Trimble (1894-1972) and his family of Berryville (Carroll County), Arkansas.
This collection of mostly family papers include congressional papers, personal papers, photographs, genealogical information, diplomas, awards, certificates, and clippings which refer to James W. Trimble, his family, and other members of the Arkansas Congressional delegation. The papers also contain broadsides that have been removed to the broadside collection.
Dates:
1854-1984
Gertrude Fallin Cook Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C77
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, land records, and other material pertaining to the family, agricultural, business, and other affairs of the Bloyd-Combs-Corum-Fallin-McMurtry-Tigard families of Washington County, Arkansas; Clay County, Missouri; and Williamson County, Texas. Two lengthy letters dated from Oregon Territory in 1852 and 1857 recount the experiences of the Tigard family and other Arkansas emigrants en route to Oregon; depict the hardships and sufferings endured en route; describe the...
Dates:
1830-1878
Herbert Earle Buchanan Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS B85
Scope and Content Note
Series 1 contains 33 items of correspondence. Twenty of the 24 letters dated 1857-1898 are to James Albert Buchanan, and pertain to land, familial, and other affairs of the Buchanan family of Washington County, Ark., especially to the role of County Surveyor J. A. Buchanan in work performed 1880-1881 for railroads under construction in the vicinity. Nine letters dated 1928-1929 pertain to Herbert Earle Buchanan's candidacy for presidency of Washington and Lee University; correspondencents...
Dates:
1837-1902, 1928-1929
Delia Wagner Price Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS P93
Scope and Content Note
The collection of Delia Wagner Price family history materials ca. 1928-1952, documents the early history and settlement of Crawford and Franklin counties, in western Arkansas. Specifically, the biographical sketches, notebooks, obituaries, clippings, and related materials in the collection focus upon a particular area of the two counties, Mulberry Valley. The papers have been arranged into two series: typescripts, clippings, and related materials pertaining to the settlement of Franklin and...
Dates:
1928-1952
Bessie Motley Blair Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2534
Content Description
Family papers of Bessie Motley Blair, which were maintained by Blair's daughter, Mary Grace Blair. They include family correspondence, business papers, financial records, photographs, and Mary Grace Blair's genealogy research. Most records pertain to Washington County and Searcy County, Arkansas.
Dates:
circa 1860-2000
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