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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Bonnell Hall Papers, #1109, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mrs. William B. Hall of Selma, Ala., 1946

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010

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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• Alabama--Genealogy.
• Anderson family.
• Bland family.
• Bolling family.
• Bonnell family.
• Briscoe family.
• Childs family.
• Cobb family.
• Cocke family.
• Elam family.
• Eldridge family.
• Ellerbe family.
• Genealogists--Alabama--Correspondence.
• Hall, William Bonnell, 1866-1940?
• Hill family.
• Munford family.
• Pegues family.
• Poythress family.
• Southern States--Genealogy.
• Stokes family.
• Withers family.

William Bonnell Hall (1866-1940?) of Alabama was a teacher, physician, and vice chancellor of the University of the South.

This collection contains genealogical materials on the following families: Anderson, Bland, Bolling, Bonnell, Briscoe, Childs, Cobb, Cocke, Elam, Eldridge, Elerbe, Hill, Munford, Pegues, Poythress, Stokes, and Withers. Contents include extensive genealogical correspondence, typed genealogical studies, notes, copies of family Bible records, excerpts from books and articles on family history, applications for Daughters of the American Revolution and other groups, tombstone inscriptions, copies of wills and court records, and business papers.