Harkrader Family Papers (#4974-z) 1902-1955

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Summary

Creator:
Harkrader (Family : Surry County, N.C.).
Abstract:

Harkrader family of North Carolina, Indiana, and Virginia and the related Lloyd family of Virginia. Principal family members were Mrs. L. V. Harkrader (fl. 1904-1928), a hotel keeper in Dobson, N.C.; her daughters Margaret Harkrader (fl. 1902-1905), a teacher in Moser, N.C., and Lillian Harkrader (fl. 1904-1931), who taught school in Mt. Airy, N.C., before becoming Surry County clerk; and her daughter-in-law Lela Harkrader (fl. 1920-1934), who lived in New Castle, Ind., and later moved to Richmond, Va. Lela's children were W. Trent Harkrader (fl. 1925-1929), a school principal and Surry County accountant; Vena Harkrader (fl. 1920-1925), who taught school in Elkin, N.C.; and Margaret Harkrader (fl. 1930-1934). The bulk of the papers are letters, 1902-1934, received or written by Harkrader family women. There are also a few letters received by W. Trent Harkrader and William Fletcher Lloyd. The letters are love letters, family letters, and letters from friends, documenting family life, young teachers' experiences in various North Carolina locations, and the lives of students attending the North Carolina College for Women, including advice from relatives on how to conduct themselves. Other letters document the difficulties of financing an education at the University of North Carolina; spiritualism; local politics in Dobson, N.C.; and Lloyd family history. Scattered financial and legal papers, 1911-1929, are mostly receipts and other items, some pertaining to the purchase of land in Yadkin County, N.C.

Extent:
70 items
Language:
English.
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Background

Biographical / historical:

The Harkrader family of North Carolina, Indiana, and Virginia, and the related Lloyd family of Virginia. Principal family members were Mrs. L. V. Harkrader (fl. 1904-1928); her daughters Margaret Harkrader (fl. 1902-1905) and Lillian Harkrader (fl. 1904-1931); her daughter-in-law Lela Harkrader (fl. 1920-1934); and three of Lela's children: W. Trent Harkrader (fl. 1925-1929), Vena Harkrader (fl. 1920-1925), and Margaret Harkrader (fl. 1930-1934).

Mrs. L. V. Harkrader was a hotel keeper in Dobson, N.C. Her daughter Margaret Harkrader was a teacher in Moser, N.C., and her daughter Lillian Harkrader taught school in Mt. Airy, N.C., before becoming county clerk for Surry County, N.C. Lela Harkrader lived in New Castle, Ind., and later moved to Richmond, Va. W. Trent Harkrader graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., and, after serving as a school principal in Stumpy Point, N.C., became county accountant in Surry County. Vena Harkrader, a graduate of the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro, N.C., taught school in Elkin, N.C. Her sister Margaret Harkrader also attended the North Carolina College for Women. Other family members were William Fletcher Lloyd of Rural Retreat, Va., and "Grandma" Lakey of Durham, N.C. (probably Mrs. L. V. Harkrader's mother).

Scope and content:

The collection includes correspondence and scattered financial and legal papers of the Harkrader family of North Carolina, Virginia, and Indiana, and the related Lloyd family of Virginia. The bulk of the collection comprises letters, 1902-1934, received or written by four generations of the women in the Harkrader family, among them love letters, family letters, and letters from friends. There are also letters, 1925-1929, addressed to W. Trent Harkrader; two letters, 1904 and 1911, to William Fletcher Lloyd; and one letter, 1955, from Maria Luis Astronga (relation to Harkrader family unknown) to a friend in college at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. There are no letters from 1906-1910, 1913-1919, 1922, 1926, 1933, or 1935-1954.

The letters document family life in Dobson, N.C., New Castle, Ind., and Richmond, Va., describing disagreements, romances and marriages, finances, illnesses, and day-to-day activities. They also offer an opportunity to study the experiences, 1904-1928, of young teachers in various locations across North Carolina and the advice given by mothers and female relatives to young women attending the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro, N.C., 1904-1931. They touch upon the life of women college students. Several letters to W. Trent Harkrader document the difficulty of financing an education at the University of North Carolina. Three letters, 1920-1923, discuss spiritualism, and scattered letters in the collection mention local elections in Dobson, N.C. Letters, 1904 and 1911, to William Fletcher Lloyd, document Lloyd family history.

The scattering of financial and legal papers are most receipts and other items, so pertaining to the purchase of land by W. Trent Harkrader in Yadkin County, N.C.

Custodial history:

Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum Rare Manuscripts & Archives, Watchung, N.J., in April 1999 (Acc. 98345).

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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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Harkrader Family Papers #4974-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu