Scope and Content Note Lorna Lack Cates' collection serves as a record of her ancestors, specifically the Woolvertons and Halbrooks, who lived initially in Tennessee but eventually settled in Arkansas. The orientation of the papers is commercial rather than personal, the relatively large number of receipts attesting to economic growth in the South in general and in Arkansas in particular during the second half of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. Materials in the collection...

Content Description

The collection contains materials related to the Moose Family of Arkansas, including clippings, family histories, and photographs. Family members mentioned in collection materials include James S. Moose, Sr.; James S. Moose, Jr.; Virginia Darden Moose; Richard M. Moose; Margaret Davis Moose; R. Redding Stevenson; and William Wilson Stevenson.

Scope and Content Note The papers include photocopied genealogies and memoirs by May Hope Moose and Florence Cazort Byrd (first cousin to May Cazort McClurkin); a photocopy of the memoirs of May Cazort McClurkin constitutes part of the collection as well, as do photocopies of familial correspondence. Clippings, pamphlets, and programs related to Conway County churches and the Morrilton centennial are also present in the May Hope Moose Papers, as is a series of photographs. May Hope Moose, who retained the...

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.