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Ashley County (Ark.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Naf

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Ashley County Extension Homemakers Club Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2210
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of a booklet of the history and annual activities of the Pine Hurst Extension Homemakers Club, as well as 23 color photographic slides of club members' attendance at the 1972 statewide convention held on the University of Arkansas campus. Those pictured include JoAnn Thompson, Barbara Kinniard, Geneva Atkins, Anna Kate Malloy, and Mattie Pearl Kilcrease.

Dates: 1972-1976

William Blanks Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MC 317
Scope and Content Note Diaries (positive photocopies) of William Blanks, December 1917 - April 1919 and April 1919 - January 1920. Topics include weather, work (at a store, an undertaker or funeral home, and at Hamburg Bank), and day-to-day life in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas; agriculture, particularly cotton crops and livestock; the 1919 influenza epidemic; and President Woodrow Wilson's cancelled Little Rock speech. Persons mentioned include J.B. Callaway, Leroy Lane, Murphy Jones, Walter Johnner, Gaster...
Dates: 1917-1920

Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS Sh92 410
Scope and Content Note Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford's school autograph book and eighteen letters, most of which are from Emma to her father, John Franklin Ram­saur (1819-1904) of Hamburg, Arkansas, written while she attended school in North and South Carolina during the Civil War. Included, however, are letters exchanged between other Ramsaur family members in North Carolina, Arkansas and California. Also included are: clippings of a published letter from Garland Julius Shuford (1876-1912) to his family, written in...
Dates: 1850-1900