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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Philip Flynn Meroney Papers, #3950, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received 1972.

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 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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• Camden (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Caswell County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Decatur (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Mecklenburg County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Meroney family.
• Meroney, Lillie Brown.
• Meroney, Philip Flynn, d. 1884.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Tailors--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Walker County (Ga.)--Social life and customs.

Philip Flynn Meroney (died 1884) a tailor of Mocksville, N.C., married Sophronia Hughes in 1831. He was apparently also the guardian of Rebeckah and Lucinda Hughes.

The collection includes letters received by Philip Flynn Meroney from his relatives in Caswell and Mecklenburg counties, N.C., Walker County, Ga., Camden, S.C., and Decatur, Miss., mainly concerning family news but occasionally touching on business affairs. Some correspondents include John and Phebe Smith, James S. Meroney, and Thomas R. Hughes. Twentieth-century letters (21 items) are to Lillie Brown Meroney in High Point and Winston Salem, N.C., granddaughter of P. F. Meroney, from a cousin, Mrs. Murphy, in Philadelphia, Pa., and concern family history.