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Collection Number: 04575

Collection Title: Borden and Lacy Family Papers, 1840s-1980s

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Size 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items)
Abstract Borden family of North Carolina and Lacy family of North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Family members worked in businesses, such as Southern Cotton Oil Co. and Borden Manufacturing Co. in Goldsboro, N.C., and as Presbyterian missionaries in China. Correspondence, scrapbooks, pictures, and other items of the Borden and Lacy families. Included is correspondence, chiefly 1880s-1940s, relating to family and Presbyterian Church matters. Also included are letters and other materials relating to Sallie McGavock Lacy's work, 1910- 1923, with the Southern Presbyterian Mission in China. There are also scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about world and family affairs, books of postcards from around the world, and genealogical materials about the Borden and Lacy families and also the Smith, Wissler, and Jones families to which they were related. The Addition of September 2018 includes letters from Captain William L. "Nick" Palmer, a UNC-Chapel Hill alum, to the family of Dana Lacy, written while serving in the Vietnam War during 1969-1970, and other materials related to Palmer.
Creator Borden (Family : Borden, Edwin B., 1867?-1934)

Lacy (Family : Lacy, Drury, 1802-1884)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Borden and Lacy Family Papers #4575, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Loan from Mr. and Mrs. Graham G. Lacy, Jr., of Greensboro, N.C., in May 1991; from Dana B. Lacy in December 2000 (via the North Carolina Collection) and September 2018 (Acc. 103427).
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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Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, June 1991; Claire Fawcett, October 1992, Roslyn Holdzkom, June 2001; Nancy Kaiser, October 2018

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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Borden family of North Carolina and Lacy family of North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Prominent family members include Edwin B. Borden (1867?-1934) and his brother Frank Kornegay Borden (1857- 1941), businessmen of Goldsboro, N.C., and sons of E. B. and Georgia Whitfield Borden. Edwin, husband of Ella Kirby Borden, was vice-president of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. Frank, husband of Sallie Smith Jones Borden (1864-1934), started Borden Manufacturing Co. in 1899. He served as its president until his death and also served on the boards of many companies, including the Wayne County National Bank and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Lacy family members include Sallie McGavock Lacy, Presbyterian missionary and great-granddaughter of Drury Lacy (1802- 1884), founder and president of Hampton-Sydney College, and granddaughter of prominent Presbyterian minister, Graham Lacy of Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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Correspondence, scrapbooks, pictures, and other items of the Borden and Lacy families. Included is correspondence, chiefly 1880s-1940s, relating to family and Presbyterian Church matters. Also included are letters and other materials relating to Sallie McGavock Lacy's work, 1910- 1923, with the Southern Presbyterian Mission in China. There are also scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about world and family affairs, books of postcards from around the world, and genealogical materials about the Borden and Lacy families and also the Smith, Wissler, and Jones families to which they were related.

The Addition of September 2018 consists of the Nick Palmer Materials, which include 9 letters from Captain William L. "Nick" Palmer, a UNC-Chapel Hill alum, to the family of Dana Lacy, written while serving in the Vietnam War during 1969-1970; 2 issues of The Green Beret magazine, 1970; and a 1979 funeral program for Dr. Yates Shuford Palmer, the father of Nick Palmer.

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Contents list

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Box 1

Borden family financial papers, 1920s-1940s

Letters to Edwin Borden, 1910-1911 (4 folders)

Letters to Edwin B. Borden in Chapel Hill, NC, 1914-1916 (2 folders)

Box 2

Letters to Edwin Borden at VMI, 1913-1914 (4 folders)

Letters to Edwin Borden in Goldsboro, NC, 1913-1941 (2 folders)

Letters to Frank Kornegay Borden, Sr., 1876

Box 3

Letters to Frank Kornegay Borden in Goldsboro, NC, 1916-1918

Letters to Julia Borden, 1908-1910 (3 folders)

Letters to Mildred Borden, 1907-1911 (2 folders)

Letters to Sallie Jones, 1840s-1880s (2 folders)

Box 4

Letters to Sallie Jones, 1840s-1880s (1 folder)

Letters to Sallie Jones from "Spoonie", 1880s

Letters to Sallie Jones, 1880s

Correspondence Sallie Jones from Julia [Borden?]

Correspondence to Sallie Jones

Letters to Sallie Jones Borden, 1887-1912

Letters to Sarah Jones from W. H. Borden, 1889

Correspondence of Mary Hogan Jones to Sarah E. Jones

Correspondence Sarah Smith Jones from Minnie Jones Wissler, 1884-1897

Correspondence Sarah E. Jones to daughter [Sallie?]

Correspondence Sarah Smith Jones and Sallie Jones from B. T. Blake

Correspondence Sallie Jones from Minnie Wissler

Box 5

Correspondence Smith family

Correspondence Sarah E. Smith from Mildred K. Smith

Correspondence Sarah E. Jones from Sallie Jones

Correspondence to Mary Hogan Jones

Correspondence to Sarah E. Smith from Belle Norwood

Correspondence to Sarah (Sallie) E. Smith from Janey Haden

Correspondence to Sarah (or Sallie) Smith Jones

Correspondence to Sarah E. Smith from M. W. Pettiway

Correspondence Sarah (Sally) Smith from Mag Perry

Recipes of Sarah Smith Jones

Correspondence of Wissler family

Box 6

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1880s-1890s (2 folders)

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1910-1916 (2 folders)

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1911-1913

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1913

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1914-1915

Box 7

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1915

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1916-1920

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1917 (2 folders)

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1919-1923

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1920-1924

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1924

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1931-1935

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1936

Box 8

Letters to Sallie Lacy, 1941-1944

Sallie Lacy: Cards and envelopes

Sallie Lacy: China clippings, 1930s

Sallie Lacy: Chinese language writings

Sallie Lacy: Clippings

Sallie Lacy: Presbyterian Church

Rolled Item R-4575/1

Rolled item

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Acquisitions Information: Accession 103427

The Nick Palmer Materials include 9 letters from Captain William L. "Nick" Palmer, a UNC-Chapel Hill alum, to the family of Dana Lacy, written while serving in the Vietnam War during 1969-1970; 2 issues of The Green Beret magazine, 1970; and a 1979 funeral program for Dr. Yates Shuford Palmer, the father of Nick Palmer.

Box 8

Nick Palmer Materials, 1969-1970, 1979

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