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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mary Jones Arrington Papers, #3241, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. J. C. Marrow of Tarboro, N.C., February 1960 and September 1965.

Transferred from the Archibald Hunter Arrington Papers, #3240, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 1960.

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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009

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• Arrington family.
• Arrington, Mary Jones, 1874-1950.
• Ballard family.
• Bullock family.
• Bunn family.
• Burt family.
• Clopton family.
• Drake family.
• Drake, B. M. (Benjamin Michael), 1800-1860.
• Drake, James Perry, 1797-1876.
• Edgecombe County (N.C.)--History.
• Hight family.
• Indiana--Social life and customs.
• Jarratt family.
• Lenoir family.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History.
• Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Muhlenburg County (Ky.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Nash County (N.C.)--History.
• Nicholson family.
• Noe family.
• North Carolina--Genealogy.
• Philips family.
• Rocky Mount (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Sclater family.
• Sims family.
• Swann family.
• Swepson family.
• Thorpe family.
• Vick family.
• Weston family.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

• Archibald Hunter Arrington Papers (#3240); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mary Jones Arrington (1874-1950) of Rocky Mount, N.C., was the daughter of John P. Arrington and Maude Phillips Arrington. She was educated at State Normal School at Greensboro, N.C.; taught school in Franklin County, N.C.; and lived in Rocky Mount after her retirement. She was chair of the Nash County Historical Association.

The collection includes correspondence and collected data of Mary Jones Arrington related to family and local history in Nash and Edgecombe counties, N.C., including copies of 19th- and 20th-century letters, wills, and Bible records. Families represented include: Arrington, Ballard, Bullock, Bunn, Burt, Clopton, Drake, Hight, Jarratt, Lenoir, Nicholson, Noe, Philips, Sclater, Sims, Swann, Swepson, Thorpe, Vick, and Weston. Also included are copies of 67 letters, 1809-1861, of the Drake family who migrated from North Carolina to various western states, chiefly letters to the family members who settled in Muhlenburg County, Ky., from James Perry Drake (1797-1876), United States land official in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael Drake (1800-1860) Methodist minister and college president in Mississippi. Volumes are mostly notebooks but include minutes of the Rocky Mount Women's Club, 1916-1921.