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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Harris Family Papers, #879, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Clara C. Harris of Concord, N.C., August 1944 and July 1951.

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.

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• Cabarrus County (N.C.)
• Concord (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Edgeworth Female Seminary (Greensboro, N.C.)--History.
• Hampton family.
• Harris family.
• Harris, Clara C.
• Harris, J. A. (John Abner), 1861-1924.
• Harris, Joshua.
• Indiana--Genealogy.
• Iredell County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Irish Americans--North Carolina--History.
• McClellan family.
• Mecklenburg County (N.C.)--Genealogy.
• Morrison family.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Pennsylvania--Genealogy.
• Selby family.
• Stephenson family.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

The Harris family of North Carolina includes William Harris Senior, an Irish immigrant to North Carolina, and his son, Joshua. Other related persons include Clara C. Harris of Concord, N.C.; J. A. (John Abner) Harris (1861-1924), presbyterian minister; and his great-grandfather, Samuel Harris of Iredell County, N.C.

The collection includes a complete copy of family records kept by Joshua Harris, including a list of family marriages, 1830-1858, and deaths, 1832-1858, with ages. There is also correspondence of Miss Clara C. Harris of Concord, N.C., with scattered members of the Harris, Hampton, Shelby and related families, chiefly of Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties, N.C., about genealogy; and genealogical correspondence, 1909-1923, and data and scattered family papers of the Reverend John Abner Harris of western North Carolina, concerning the Harris, McLelland, Morrison, and Stevenson families of Iredell County, N.C., and the Harris family in Indiana and Pennsylvania. Also included is scattered personal correspondence, 1850-1856, of female family members and their friends living near Concord, N.C., including a letter, 1854, from a student at Edgeworth Seminary, Greensboro, N.C., discussing school life.