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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Solomon Hilary Helsabeck Papers, #326, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased June 1928.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Account books.
• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Diaries.
• Helsabeck, Solomon Hilary, 1822-1910.
• Methodist Church--Clergy.
• Methodist Church--North Carolina--History.
• North Carolina--Religious life and customs.
• Pulliam, B. W., fl. 1862-1876.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Stokes County (N.C.)--History.

Solomon Hilary Helsabeck (1822-1910) was a Methodist minister of Stokes County, N.C. In his ministry, Helsabeck served in Mocksville, N.C., and Salisbury, N.C., 1843-1844, and the counties of Granville, 1845; Currituck, 1846; Surry, 1847; Randolph, 1848; Wilkes, 1849; Guilford, 1854-1856 and 1874; Iredell, 1858-1859; Forsyth, 1860-1862, 1871, and 1885; and Stokes, 1866, 1868, and 1878-1879, North Carolina. Helsabeck married Margaret J. Banner, January 1847.

The collection contains brief diaries, 1856-1910, and parallel account books concerning Solomon Hilary Helsabeck's pastoral duties, farming, and personal affairs in Stokes and adjacent counties in North Carolina; as well as letters from Confederate soldiers and other miscellaneous papers of B. W. Pulliam, also of Stokes County. Diary entries mention travel connected to church work, and services, christenings, marriages, and burials. Also inlcuded in the collection are some genealogical notes on the Pulliam, Goff, Walters, and Newton families.