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Size | 7 items |
Abstract | Lucy Davis (Cole) Cole lived in Richmond, Va. and compiled genealogical information about her family. The collection contains genealogical papers, including "A Sketch of the Family of Charles William Cole (1848-1914) and his wife Julia Quincy Cole of Warren County, N.C.," with records of Davis, White, Quincy, and Mayfield family connections, compiled Cole in 1951; "Quincy Notes," records of the Quincy family and its Adair and Hancock connections, compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman for Lucy Cole in 1950; and letters, 1941-1943, to Lucy Cole from John White Hicks (1860-1943) concerning old days in Warren County, N.C., especially recollections of friends and relatives there before he left in 1885. |
Creator | Cole, Lucy Davis Cole. |
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, March 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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Lucy Davis (Cole) Cole of Richmond, Va., was a descendant of Charles William Cole (1848-1914) and his wife Julia Quincy Cole of Warren County, N.C. She married her first cousin, Charles Fletcher Cole, in 1899.
Back to TopThe collection contains genealogical papers of Lucy Davis (Cole) Cole including "A Sketch of the Family of Charles William Cole (1848-1914) and his wife Julia Quincy Cole of Warren County, N.C.," with records of Davis, White, Quincy, and Mayfield family connections, compiled by Cole in 1951; "Quincy Notes," records of the Quincy family and its Adair and Hancock connections, compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman for Lucy Cole in 1950; and letters, 1941-1943, to Lucy Cole from John White Hicks (1860-1943) concerning old days in Warren County, N.C., especially recollections of friends and relatives there before he left in 1885.
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