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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
Abstract | Hill and Davis families of Warrenton, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal items, genealogical material, printed items, and other materials of the extended Hill and Davis families. Materials prior to 1867 concern the families' activities in the Methodist Church in eastern North Carolina. After 1867, the material relates to Louisa Hill Davis and her daughters; Louisburg Male Academy and Louisburg Female Academy and their successor institution, Louisburg College; and the genealogy of the Davis-Hill-Toole-King-Fuller-Long-Seawell family. The addition of October 2001 contains letters, 1933-1964, received by Ruth Jenkins, who became a member of the Fuller-Malone branch of the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. The bulk of these letters were written by Private George Shaw during his service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the United States and French West Africa. The addition of October 2003 contains family letters; financial materials; genealogical materials; and writings, including some of poet and novelist Edwin W. Fuller, of the Fuller branch of the extended Hill and Davis family. |
Creator | Davis (Family : Warrenton, N.C.)
Hill (Family : Warrenton, N.C.) |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
The Addition of October 2003 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.
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The persons represented in this collection are ancestors of the donors, Elizabeth Allen and Sarah Davis, who are first cousins.
The Reverend Daniel Shines (1759-1843) was a Methodist circuit rider in eastern North Carolina in the 1790s. He later settled as a minister in Warrenton, N.C. Evidence in the papers indicates that he married Sarah Richmond Long, widow of Gabriel Long and mother of Rebecca Wesley Long Hill (1791-1867), who married Charles Applewhite Hill.
Charles A. Hill (1784-1832) graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1816 and moved to Georgia with Rebecca. After several years there, Hill returned to North Carolina to become a Methodist minister and educator in Franklin County. He founded an academy at Midway, published a Latin grammar, and served as a state senator, devoting himself to the cause of public education.
Daniel Shine Hill (1812-1873), planter and son of Charles A. and Rebecca Hill, married Susan Erwin Toole (1815-1878), daughter of Geraldus Toole, a planter, and Elizabeth King Toole. Among the Hills' several daughters was Sarah Louisa Hill (1836-1931), who married Matthew S. Davis (1830-1906), head of the Louisburg Male Academy and president of its successor, Louisburg College. The Davises had six children. The oldest daughter, Florence, married Eugene S. Allen and was the mother of J. Edward Allen, author of some of the genealogical materials in the collection. The second daughter, Mary, served as president of Louisburg College from the time of her father's death in 1906 until 1918. She married Ivey Allen and was the mother of Elizabeth Allen, one of the donors of these papers. The third daughter, Mabel, never married; she served as librarian of Warren County; genealogy was a passion she shared with a remote relative, Nannie Seawell Boyd. One son, the Reverend Edward Hill Davis, served as a Methodist minister and the other son, Louisburg architect Marion Stuart Davis, married May Amanda Holmes and was the father of Sarah Davis, who is one of this collection's donors.
The Fuller branch of the family descended from Ann Long, who was another daughter of Gabriel Long (d. 1792) and Sarah Richmond Long (d. 1845). Ann married Jordan Thomas, and they had a daughter, Ann, who married merchant Jones Fuller (1808-1870). They had two children, poet and writer Edwin Wiley Fuller (1847-1876), who married Mary Elizabeth Malone, and Anna Richmond (d. 1934), who married James Ellis Malone. James and Elizabeth Malone were siblings. The King family appears to have become intertwined with the Hill and Davis family through the second marriage of Ann Thomas Fuller, who married William Richmond King after the death of her first husband, Jones Fuller.
Ruth Jenkins is related to the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. Best's connection to the family is through his mother, who descends from the Fuller-Malone branch of the Hill and Davis family.
Note: Most of this information is from material contained in the collection. The connections of Green Hill, Jr., John and Joel King, and the Reverend Daniel Shines with the Methodist Church are confirmed in references in The History of Methodism in North Carolina by W. L. Grissom (1905: The Publishing House of the M. E. Church (South), Nashville, Tenn.).
Back to TopThe collection includes correspondence, financial and legal items, genealogical material, printed items, and other items of the extended Hill and Davis families of Warrenton, N.C. Materials prior to 1867 concern the families' activities in the Methodist Church in eastern North Carolina. After 1867, the material relates to Louisa Hill Davis and her daughters; Louisburg Male Academy and Louisburg Female Academy and their successor institution, Louisburg College; and the genealogy of the Davis-Hill-Toole-King-Fuller-Long-Seawell family. The addition of October 2001 contains letters, 1933-1964, received by Ruth Jenkins, who became a member of the Fuller-Malone branch of the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. The bulk of these letters were written by Private George Shaw during his service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the United States and French West Africa. The addition of October 2003 contains family letters; financial materials; genealogical materials; and writings, including some of poet and novelist Edwin W. Fuller, of the Fuller branch of the extended Hill and Davis family.
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Family, business, and genealogical correspondence. Letters from 1794 to 1837 are chiefly from Charles A. Hill and his wife Rebecca to her father-in-law and mother, the Reverend Daniel and Sarah Shines, and from the Reverend Joel King to Shines and to King's sister, Elizabeth King Toole. One 1794 letter is from Daniel Shines, Jr., to his parents. Letters from 1855 to 1863 are business and family correspondence of Daniel Shine Hill.
Correspondence from 1867 to 1900 consists chiefly of family correspondence of Louisa Hill Davis, wife of Matthew Smart Davis, president of Louisburg College. From 1919 to 1954, items are chiefly letters about genealogy of Mabel Davis, librarian of Warren County, primarily and her mother, Louisa Hill Davis, and with Nannie Seawell Boyd. One item is a letter from Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945), the novelist, about hearing aids, 19 March 1936. Undated items are chiefly family letters of Louisa Hill Davis and genealogical exchanges between Mabel Davis and Nannie Seawell Boyd.
Folder 1 |
1794 |
Folder 2 |
1807-1812 |
Folder 3 |
1814-1837 |
Folder 4 |
1855-1863 |
Folder 5 |
1867-1900 |
Folder 6 |
1919-1923 |
Folder 7 |
1924 |
Folder 8 |
1925 |
Folder 9 |
1926-1927 |
Folder 10 |
1928-1929 |
Folder 11 |
1930-1954 |
Folder 12 |
Undated |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 99430
Arrangement: chronological.
Letters, 1933-1964, received by Ruth Jenkins, who became a member of the Fuller-Malone branch of the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. The bulk of these letters were written by Private George Shaw during his service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the United States and French West Africa.
Folder 26 |
1933-1942 |
Folder 27 |
1943 |
Folder 28 |
1943-1964 and undated |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 99430
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily family letters of merchant Jones Fuller; his wife, Ann Thomas Fuller; and their children, poet and novelist Edwin Wiley Fuller, and Anna Richmond Fuller Malone. There is also an 1821 letter to Joel King.
Folder 21 |
Correspondence, 1821-1872 and undated |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4393/1 |
Correspondence, 1821 |
Financial and legal, genealogical, printed items, and other material. Financial and legal items include notes, bills, and fragments of legal documents. Also included is an account book of Louisburg Male Academy, 1870-1880, which documents the academy's accounts and contains several newspaper clippings about the Academy. Genealogical material consists of notes, charts, and mimeographed articles relating to the Davis, Hill, Toole, King, Fuller, Long, and Seawell families.
Printed items are newspaper clippings relating to Methodist history and meetings, Louisburg College, and the deaths of family members; an undated pamphlet entitled, "Green Hill," by Thomas Neal Ivey; printed Louisburg Male Academy forma; and magazine articles about Louisburg College.
Miscellaneous items include proceedings of quarterly meetings of the Tar River Conference of the Methodist Church, 1841; a report card of Louisa Hill from Louisburg Female Academy, 1850; two drafts of family reminiscences, one pertaining to the Daniel Shine Hill family and the other to Christmas customs; a recipe; and drafts of addresses about education in general and Louisburg College.
Folder 13 |
Financial and legal, 1768-1924 |
Folder 14 |
Account book, 1870-1880 |
Folder 15-17
Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17 |
Genealogical material, undated |
Folder 18-19
Folder 18Folder 19 |
Printed items |
Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous items, 1841-1924 |
Arrangement: by type.
Chiefly financial and legal papers, writings, and genealogical materials of the extended Hill and Davis family. Financial and legal documents primarily consists of receipts of the Fuller family, but also included are a court order in Mosley v. Jones, 1770; fragments of an inventory of the estate of Gabriel Long, 1792; and fragments of an "Account of Rebecca Long, orphan, with Daniel and Sarah Shines," 1796-1797.
Writings consist of newspaper clippings of Edwin Wiley Fuller's poems, "The Last Look" and "Lines Written After Having a Hemorrhage From the Lungs," and two speeches by his sister, Anna, that were delivered before the Joseph J. Davis chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1920s. One contains her memories of Sherman's march through Louisburg, N.C., and the other describes the celebration of Christmas during the Civil War.
Genealogical materials include clippings of obituraries, donors' notes, excerpts from Sarah Davis's Covenant Made on Earth: A History of the Louisburg Methodist Church, and Sarah Louisa Hill Davis's approved application to the Daughters of the Confederacy based on her father Daniel Shine Hill's service.
There are also two documents relating to Louisburg schools: a summary of a Louisburg Male Academy board meeting lead by Joel King, and an 1818 list of the students enrolled in Louisburg Female Academy's first session.
Folder 22 |
Financial and legal materials, 1770-1908 |
Folder 23 |
Writings, 1870s-1925 and undated |
Folder 24 |
Louisburg Schools, 1818 and undated |
Folder 25 |
Genealogical materials, 1870s-2003 |
Oversized papers in folder OP-4393/1.
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