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Size | About 30 items |
Abstract | Mary E. Strayhorn Berry (died 1934) was the daughter of William F. and Harriet Holden (Nichols) Strayhorn; and niece of Thomas Jackson Strayhorn (1831-1864), member of the Orange Guards, Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes papers of the family of Mrs. Mary (Strayhorn) Berry, including sixteen letters, 1863-1864, from a soldier with the Orange Guards, Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, serving in Virginia and Pennsylvania; slight family correspondence of Mrs. Berry's daughters, 1934; and a typed transcription, 22 pages, of her recollections of her childhood near Hillsborough, N.C., before the Civil War. |
Creator | Berry, Mary E. Strayhorn, 1854-1934. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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.
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Mary E. Strayhorn Berry (d. 1934) was the daughter of William F. and Harriet Holden (Nichols) Strayhorn; and niece of Thomas Jackson Strayhorn (1831-1864), member of the Orange Guards, Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. Mary E. Strayhorn Berry died in 1934.
Back to TopThe collection includes papers of the family of Mrs. Mary (Strayhorn) Berry, including sixteen letters, 1863-1864, from Thomas Jackson Strayhorn, a soldier with the Orange Guards, Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, serving in Virginia and Pennsylvania; slight family correspondence of Mrs. Berry's daughters, Mary Elizabeth Berry Brown and Margaret Strudwick Berry Street, 1934; and a typed transcription, 22 pages, of her recollections of her childhood near Hillsborough, N.C., before the Civil War. Additional papers include a bill of sale for a slave, 1841; a letter from W. P. Mangum to John Berry on financial matters, 1842; an obituary for Kent James Brown, 1944; and other items.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
1841-1868 |
Folder 2 |
1909-1944, undated |