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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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Genealogy (narrative and charts) of the Riley family, primarily of Crawford, Franklin, and Madison counties; includes McLin, Langley, Smalley, Golden, Norris, Maxey, and Taylor family connections.

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The collection consists of an unpublished genealogy of the Curtis/Holcomb families of West Fork, Washington County, Arkansas, compiled by Lloyd McConnell and Bernice Karnes.

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The C. E. Daggett Supplementary Papers contain genealogical material, Daggett family reunion newsletter (1984), memorial booklet (1891) in memory of John Mayhew Daggett, Jr., photocopies and transcripts of newspaper articles, family letters, and family photographs.

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Photograph of Raymond Harrison Williams; mimeographed genealogical information on King, Butt, and Cox families; photocopies of correspondence from donor containing further information on King and Williams families. Several members have been students at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

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...

Scope and Content Note Contained are the personal papers pertaining to Cora Anne Stroud Jenkins' life; her literary works including poetry, short stories, song lyrics, autobiography and a manuscript of an unpublished book Our American Vernacular; genealogy material of Stroud, Hill, Carlock, and Cline families and the correspondence generated as a result of the research; personal papers of her parents, John Walter Stroud and Mary Jane Hill Stroud and the grandparents, James Thomas Stroud and Margaret Ann Carlock...

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The collection includes genealogical research, family photographs, and other materials compiled by Mary Marquess that relate to the Peel and Berry families of Arkansas.

Scope and Content Note The collection consists primarily of materials regarding the genealogy of the Lawson family, as well as documenting Lois Lawson Morris' writings regarding her family history in Arkansas and Georgia. These genealogical research materials are primarily correspondence, newsletters, and photocopies of historical records. Other materials relate to her involvement with various historical societies in Arkansas and Georgia, her interest in painting, and her teaching career at the University of...

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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...

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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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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.