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Collection Number: 04249

Collection Title: John A. Kelly Papers, 1800-1960.

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Size About 3,500 items (7.5 linear feet).
Abstract Genealogical correspondence and data pertaining to the Bane, Borden, Botts, Burk, Carper, Caviness, Clotworthy, Everitt, Gaines, Howell, Kelly, Kelsey, Lyon, Parsons, Peck, Price, Strother, Snidow, Taylor, Thornton, and Wood families of Virginia, Louisiana, and other states. Other families may be represented. Most correspondence is about genealogical research, but there is substantial original nineteenth century source material as well. Also included are two carte de viste albums of portraits of family and Confederate officeholders and generals.
Creator Kelly, John Alexander, 1889-1959.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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 John A. Kelly Papers, #4249, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. Robert P. Kelly in 1980 (Acc. 080152).
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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updtated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2017

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Genealogical correspondence and data pertaining to the Bane, Borden, Botts, Burk, Carper, Caviness, Clotworthy, Everitt, Gaines, Howell, Kelly, Kelsey, Lyon, Parsons, Peck, Price, Strother, Snidow, Taylor, Thornton, and Wood families of Virginia, Louisiana, and other states. Other families may be represented. Most correspondence is about genealogical research, but there is substantial original nineteenth century source material as well. Also included are two carte de viste albums of portraits of family and Confederate officeholders and generals.

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Contents list

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3500 items.
Photograph Album PA-04249/1

Carte de viste album, 1860s-1880s

24 portraits.

Includes a composite image of Confederate generals, portraits of family and Confederate generals.and .

Photograph Album PA-04249/2

Carte de viste album, 1860s-1880s

27 portraits.

Confederate flag needlework and portraits of Confederate States of America officeholders and generals, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, Braxton Bragg, and John Wilkes Booth.

Image Folder PF-04249/1

Masio Looney Peck and his home, 1880s-1890s

Image Folder PF-04249/2

Peck

Image Folder PF-04249/3

Unidentified couple, 1960s

Box 1

Alexander

Bane

Borden

Broaddus

Butts

Burk

Burke and McComas

Carper

Clotworthy: Buckner

Clotworthy: Albert W. Gaines, 1897-1913

Clotworthy: John W. Gaines, 1898-1922

Clotworthy: Richard V. Gaines, 1896-1900

Clotworthy: Samuel M. Gaines, 1902-1903

Clotworthy: General Edmund Pendleton Gaines

Clotworthy, 1840-1903 (Gaines #1)

Clotworthy, 1904-1930 (Gaines #2)

Clotworthy: General Edmund Pendleton Gaines

Clotworthy: Trist Wood, 1922-1926 (Gaines)

Clotworthy: Lewis

Clotworthy: Madison

Clotworthy: Moore

Clotworthy: Pendleton

Clotworthy: Strother

Clotworthy: Taylor

Everitt

Fawcett

Gaines

Box 2

Gaines

Gaines: Banks correspondence

Gaines: Dedman correspondence

Gaines: King

Gaines: McKay correspondence

Gaines: Pendleton

Gaines: Trist Wood

Gaines: Hendry and Worley Imes

Gaines: Miscellaneous

Gaines: Texas

Box 3

Gaines: Texas

Gaines: Texas (Montague)

Gaines: Texas (Richard Thomas)

Gaines: Texas (Clark)

Gaines, Francis

Gaines, Behethland

Gaines, Robert

Gaines and Everett

Gaines-Strother

Gaines and Taylor

Goodwin

Howell

Hughes, Samuel H., 1885, 1886

Kelly

Kelly-Easley family

Kelly-Wood

Kelly-Reilly, 1948-1959

Kelly: Miscellaneous

Kelly-Glass, 1951-1953

Kelly: General Edmund Pendleton Gaines

Kelly: Drummand F. Gaines

Kelsey

Kirk

Lyon

McComas and Williams

Moore

Parsons

Pearson

Peck

Box 4

Peck

Pendleton, Edmund

Reed

Snidow

Steenberger

Strother

Strother, Coleman, Slaughter, Wood, Fairleigh, Covington, McKay

Taliafaro-Thornton

Taylor

General Zachary Taylor, Partition between the heirs of, 9 December 1850

General Zachary Taylor, Agreement and settlement between the widow and heirs of, 9 December 1850

Taylor: Fort Harrison

Taylor and Gaines

Thornton

Box 5

Wilkes

Wood, Trist

Wood, Trist: General Edmund Pendleton Gaines

Wood and Taylor

Cemetery records

Correspondence

Correspondence: Davis (Gaines)

Correspondence: Prentise Price

Envelopes

The Lookout, 1916, 1937

Miscellaneous

New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1921 - April 1930

Notes

Reference material

Wills

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