{"id":2403,"date":"2010-07-11T17:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=2403"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:58:23","slug":"mary-jones-arrington-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/papers\/mary-jones-arrington-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Jones Arrington Collection, 1874 – 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION AT THE LOUIS ROUND WILSON LIBRARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lib.unc.edu\/mss\/inv\/a\/Arrington,Mary_Jones.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Collection Title: MARY JONES ARRINGTON PAPERS, 1707-1955.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collection Number: 03241<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0 Mary Jones Arrington of Rocky Mount, N.C., taught school in Franklin County, N.C., and was interested in genealogy and local history of Nash County and Edgecombe County, N.C.\u00a0 The collection includes correspondence and collected data of Arrington related to family and local history, including copies of 19th- and 20th-century letters, wills, and Bible records. Families represented include: Arrington, Ballard, Bullock, Bunn, Burt, Clopton, Drake, Hight, Jarratt, Lenoir, Nicholson, Noe, Philips, Sclater, Sims, Swann, Swepson, Thorpe, Vick, and Weston. <\/strong>Also included are copies of 67 letters, 1809-1861, of the DRAKE FAMILY who migrated from North Carolina to various western states<\/strong>, chiefly letters to the family members who settled in Muhlenburg County, Ky., from James Perry Drake (1797-1876), United States land official in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael Drake (1800-1860) Methodist minister and college president in Mississippi. Volumes are mostly notebooks but include minutes of the Rocky Mount Women’s Club, 1916-1921.\u00a0 Also, President of the Nash County Historical Association.
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CREATOR- ARRINGTON, MARY JONES, 1874-1950.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONTENTS LIST<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. CORRESPONDENCE, 1895-1955 AND UNDATED.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2. COPIES OF FAMILY DOCUMENTS, ORIGINALS DATED 1707-1892.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3. GENEALOGICAL DATA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4. VOLUMES, 1916-1929 AND UNDATED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SERIES 1. CORRESPONDENCE, 1895-1955 AND UNDATED.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arrangement: chronological.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chiefly correspondence of Mary Jones Arrington with widely scattered relatives, genealogists, and researchers, regarding family history, ancestry, and biography. Families represented include: ARRINGTON, BALLARD, BULLOCK, BUNN, BURT, CLOPTON, DRAKE, HIGHT, JARRATT, LENOIR, NICHOLSON, NOE, PHILIPS, SCLATER, SIMS, SWANN, SWEPSON, THORPE, VICK, AND WESTON.<\/strong> Also included are a few letters addressed to other members of her immediate family concerning family data and papers related to Mary Jones Arrington’s involvement in local history organizations.<\/p>\n

Folder 1A<\/p>\n

Original finding aid #03241,<\/p>\n

Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.” Folder 1A<\/p>\n

Folder 1<\/p>\n

1895-1920 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 2<\/p>\n

1921 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated\u201d<\/p>\n

Folder 3<\/p>\n

1924-1928 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 4<\/p>\n

1929-1930 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 5<\/p>\n

1931-1935 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 6<\/p>\n

1936 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 7<\/p>\n

1937 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 8<\/p>\n

1938-1939 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 9<\/p>\n

1940-1941 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 10<\/p>\n

1942-1943 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated<\/p>\n

Folder 11<\/p>\n

1944 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 12<\/p>\n

1945-1955 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

Folder 13<\/p>\n

Undated letters #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”<\/p>\n

SERIES 2. COPIES OF FAMILY DOCUMENTS, ORIGINALS DATED 1707-1892.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Includes photocopies and typed and manual transcriptions of documents pertaining to Arrington and related family lines, including Bible records, wills, obituary notices, and miscellaneous papers.<\/p>\n

Folder 14<\/p>\n

1707-1829 #03241, Series: “2. Copies of Family Documents, originals dated 1707-1892.”<\/p>\n

Folder 15<\/p>\n

1710-1892 #03241, Series: “2. Copies of Family Documents, originals dated 1707-1892.\u201d<\/p>\n

SERIES 3. GENEALOGICAL DATA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arrangement: by subject.<\/p>\n

Items include family histories compiled by Mary Jones Arrington and others, genealogical notes and memoranda, and historical sketches. Also included are copies of 67 letters, 1809-1861, of the Drake family who migrated from North Carolina to various western states, chiefly letters to the family members who settled in Muhlenburg County, Ky., from James Perry Drake (1797-1876), United States land official in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael Drake (1800-1860) Methodist minister and college president in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Folder 16-17<\/p>\n

Arrington data #03241, Series: “3. Genealogical Data” Folder 16-17<\/p>\n

Folder 18a-18b<\/p>\n

Ballard data #03241, Series: “3. Genealogical Data” Folder 18a-18b<\/p>\n

Folder 19<\/p>\n

Drake data and copies of letters #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 20<\/p>\n

Hight data #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 21<\/p>\n

Lenoir data #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 22 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nash County places and history #03241<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Folder 23<\/p>\n

Nicholson data #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 24<\/p>\n

Sims data #03241<\/p>\n

Sclater data #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 25-27<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous family data #03241<\/p>\n

SERIES 4.\u00a0 VOLUMES, 1916-1929 AND UNDATED.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Folder 28<\/strong><\/p>\n

Volume 1: Minutes: Woman’s Club of Rocky Mount, 1916-1921 #03241<\/strong><\/p>\n

Folder 29<\/strong><\/p>\n

Volume 2: Minutes and records: North Carolina Normal College Alumna group, <\/strong>1921?-1929 #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 30A-30L<\/p>\n

Volume 3: Miscellaneous notebooks, genealogy #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 31<\/p>\n

Volume 4: Ancestral chart of Mary Jones Arrington #03241<\/p>\n

Folder 32<\/p>\n

, 1874 Volume 5: Recipes, undated #03241<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION AT THE LOUIS ROUND WILSON LIBRARY http:\/\/www.lib.unc.edu\/mss\/inv\/a\/Arrington,Mary_Jones.html Collection Title: MARY JONES ARRINGTON PAPERS, 1707-1955. Collection Number: 03241 Abstract:\u00a0 Mary Jones Arrington of Rocky Mount, N.C., taught school in Franklin County, N.C., and was interested…<\/p>\n

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