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: 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. 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. 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. Volumes are mostly notebooks but include minutes of the Rocky Mount Women’s Club, 1916-1921. Also, President of the Nash County Historical Association.
CREATOR- ARRINGTON, MARY JONES, 1874-1950.
CONTENTS LIST
1. CORRESPONDENCE, 1895-1955 AND UNDATED.
2. COPIES OF FAMILY DOCUMENTS, ORIGINALS DATED 1707-1892.
3. GENEALOGICAL DATA
4. VOLUMES, 1916-1929 AND UNDATED
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SERIES 1. CORRESPONDENCE, 1895-1955 AND UNDATED.
Arrangement: chronological.
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. 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.
Folder 1A
Original finding aid #03241,
Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.” Folder 1A
Folder 1
1895-1920 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 2
1921 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated”
Folder 3
1924-1928 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 4
1929-1930 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 5
1931-1935 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 6
1936 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 7
1937 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 8
1938-1939 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 9
1940-1941 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 10
1942-1943 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated
Folder 11
1944 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 12
1945-1955 #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
Folder 13
Undated letters #03241, Series: “1. Correspondence, 1895-1955 and undated.”
SERIES 2. COPIES OF FAMILY DOCUMENTS, ORIGINALS DATED 1707-1892.
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.
Folder 14
1707-1829 #03241, Series: “2. Copies of Family Documents, originals dated 1707-1892.”
Folder 15
1710-1892 #03241, Series: “2. Copies of Family Documents, originals dated 1707-1892.”
SERIES 3. GENEALOGICAL DATA
Arrangement: by subject.
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.
Folder 16-17
Arrington data #03241, Series: “3. Genealogical Data” Folder 16-17
Folder 18a-18b
Ballard data #03241, Series: “3. Genealogical Data” Folder 18a-18b
Folder 19
Drake data and copies of letters #03241
Folder 20
Hight data #03241
Folder 21
Lenoir data #03241
Folder 22
Nash County places and history #03241
Folder 23
Nicholson data #03241
Folder 24
Sims data #03241
Sclater data #03241
Folder 25-27
Miscellaneous family data #03241
SERIES 4. VOLUMES, 1916-1929 AND UNDATED.
Folder 28
Volume 1: Minutes: Woman’s Club of Rocky Mount, 1916-1921 #03241
Folder 29
Volume 2: Minutes and records: North Carolina Normal College Alumna group, 1921?-1929 #03241
Folder 30A-30L
Volume 3: Miscellaneous notebooks, genealogy #03241
Folder 31
Volume 4: Ancestral chart of Mary Jones Arrington #03241
Folder 32
, 1874 Volume 5: Recipes, undated #03241