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Giles Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1768
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence from a father (likely Robert S. Giles), writing from Ulm, Prairie County, Arkansas, to his son, R. Porter Giles, in New London, Ohio. Correspondence is written in between the lines of promotional postcards for the Arkansas Investment Land Co. (Ulm, Ark.). Topics include family, weather, and agriculture. The collection also includes transcriptions of the letters.

Dates: 1890

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

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

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

Trulock Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1160
Scope and Content Note The papers contain the photocopies of the original letters of Amanda Beardsley Trulock, James Hines Trulock, and Victoria B. Trulock (Davis), 1837-1869. The correspondence contains the letters of Amanda Beardsley Trulock written from "Magnolia Place" in Blakley, Georgia (1837-1844), from Jefferson County "Prairie Place" (near Pine Bluff), Arkansas, and from a few other...
Dates: 1837-1869

Pipkin Family Narratives

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1309
Scope and Content Note

Included are typed transcripts, prepared by the donor, of two personal narratives: E.L. Compere, Border Missionary, by Jane Lyon (Compere) Pipkin, written in 1944; and Autobiography of William Minor Pipkin.

Dates: 1944, undated

Ellsworth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1162
Scope and Content Note The material in the first accession (Boxes 1-14) was largely collected and saved by Sarah Van Patten Ellsworth and her daughter Bessie Graham Ellsworth. Many of the pictures and scrapbooks were used as exhibit material when the Ellsworth house, "Wildwood," was opened as a private museum in 1963. The Ellsworth family papers include correspondence, journals (including one kept by Sarah Van Patten Ellsworth in 1865-1866), scrapbooks, albums (including an autograph album of visitors...
Dates: 1858-1979

Fordyce Family Papers

 Collection
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

Compton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1453
Scope and Content Note

The papers consist of correspondence, documents, genealogical material, and images related to the family of David Compton, Sr. (1850-1923) and his wife, Mary Eyre Haller Compton (1851-1934) as well as their sons, David Compton, Jr. (1885-1959) and William Eyre Compton (1890-1981). There is also documentation concerning the lives of Neil Ernest Compton (1912-1999) and his wife Laurene Putman Compton (1916-1991).

Dates: 1807-1980

Williford Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 778
Scope and Content Note

The Williford papers consist primarily of photographs and examples of J.D. Slagle's artwork. A few printed materials and letters are also included. The items have been arranged by document type. Numbers listed after each calendared item are original accession numbers assigned to the documents by the Coos County Historical Society Museum.

Dates: circa 1860-1942

Burt Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 456
Scope and Content Note Materials include correspondence, property records, World War I memorabilia, and photographs. The papers pertain to Edward Burt and, his son, Farlow Burt. The papers consist of three series--Edward and Clara Burt, Farlow and Allie Burt, and Albert and Mary Burt. Edward and Clara Burt's papers contain family and professional correspondence. Edward and Clara Burt's papers also include New York and St. Louis property records, as well as some botanical notes. Farlow and Allie Burt's papers also...
Dates: 1865-1966

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

Upchurch Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 197
Scope and Content Note

The papers, photographs, genealogical information, diplomas, and clippings refer to Fredrica and Grace Upchurch's parents, their brother, and sisters. There are also papers, including itemized accounts of daily expenses Fredrica and Grace Upchurch maintained over a sixty-year period, and photographs concerning the University of Arkansas, Arkansas State Normal School (later renamed Arkansas State Teachers College), and Fort Smith public and private schools.

Dates: 1879-1984

Kirby Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1030
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of materials related to Leonidas Kirby and his grandson, Dr. Henry Vance Kirby. It includes materials concerning four generations of the Kirby family. Materials include correspondence, ledgers, and other papers relating to Leonidas Kirby and his wife Rhoda. Fewer materials relate to the lives of their sons, including pharmaceutical laboratory notebooks belonging to Leander. A majority of materials, including correspondence, financial documents, and patient...
Dates: 1871-1993

Egger Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 469
Scope and Content Note

John J. Egger's certificate as postmaster of Egger, Polk County, Arkansas (1886), and diary kept on a calendar pad by Johnny Egger, 1927. The diary includes notes on the weather and a day-by-day account of Egger's activities: farming, hauling, woodcutting, hunting, and visits.

Dates: 1886; 1927

Curtis Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1065
Scope and Content Note

Papers and photographs pertaining to the Kirby Family of Newton County, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Materials include: two letters from family members, 1903, 1920; genealogical notes and writings created by Meda E. Curtis and her daughter, Faye M. Turbyfill, ca. 1950s; photographs of family members and homes in Arkansas and Oklahoma, circa 1887-1990; newspaper clippings concerning the Curtis family; 10 sketches created by Mabel Durham Ryker of the Curtis homestead in Newton County.

Dates: circa 1887-1954

Greer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 948
Scope and Content Note The papers pertain mostly to Richard Baker Greer and his grandfather, Benjamin Finis Greer. Benjamin Finis Greer (1867-1942) was born to James W. Greer and Mollie E. Shannon Greer in Evansville (Washington County), Arkansas. In 1889, he married Lula Flinn, another Evansville native. In addition to general agricultural pursuits, Greer worked for the Kansas City Southern Railroad in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and Stilwell, Oklahoma. He was elected Washington County Probate Clerk in 1904 and...
Dates: 1900-1980

Tinney Family Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections Box 6
Identifier: MC 939
Scope and Content Note

The papers contain correspondence, a will, and receipts. Correspondence originates from friends and family in Harrison County, Missouri, Pope County, Arkansas, and other Arkansas counties.

Dates: 1850-1915

Cazort Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2578
Content Description

The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, a diary, genealogy research, and other materials related to the Cazort family of Johnson County, Arkansas, and particularly to Pauline Cazort Berry. Included are materials related to the Cazort Brothers general stores, to the town of Lamar, and to Ozone Mountain and Petit Jean Mountain, where the family vacationed.

Dates: circa 1880-2022

Grigory Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 836
Scope and Content Note

Photocopies of correspondence to the John Grigory [Gregory] family of Benton County, Arkansas from Missouri and Texas relatives. Papers also include photocopies of tax and other receipts.

Correspondence and financial documents, 1869-1885.

Dates: 1869-1885

Camp Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MC 546
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...
Dates: 1851-1854, 1904-1905

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

Stanley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1929
Scope and Contents The collection contains materials related to and collected by the family of Harry Bell Stanley, including his wife, Alta Kenyon Stanley; his brother, Samuel Willard Stanley; and his son, Harry Kenyon Stanley. The bulk of the materials pertain to Harry Bell Stanley's life in Weiner, Arkansas, or to his son Harry K. Stanley's military service during World War II and career in civil aviation. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, military records,...
Dates: circa 1880-2011

Buchanan Family History

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1393
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of two documents: an eighteen-page holograph manuscript by Dr. H. E. Buchanan, father of John A. Buchanan, and a seven-page computer printout entitled H.E.B.'s Cane Hill Story.

Dates: undated; 1997

Royston Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2427
Content Description

The collection contains materials related to the Royston family of Arkansas, including photographs, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and genealogical research. Persons and places mentioned include Joshua Royston, Grandison Royston, Inez Thompson Royston, Arthur Lee Royston, and the Royston House in Old Washington State Park. Included are two stereoviews of Eureka Springs by Arkansas photographer A. W. Barker.

Dates: circa 1870-2006

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