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[Identification of item], in the Fannie Lillian Massenburg Papers #05799, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Ruby Hinson in August 2019 (Acc. 103690).

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• Franklin County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Genealogy.
• Henderson (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Mangum family--Photographs.
• Massenburg family--Photographs.
• Massenburg, Fannie Lillian, 1892-1985
• Women teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Fannie Lillian Massenburg, a white woman from Henderson, N.C., was a family historian, a member of the First United Methodist Church, and a schoolteacher at Franklin County Public Schools in the early 20th century.

The Fannie Lillian Massenburg Papers consist of her genealogical papers and collected historical family records, family photographs, personal correspondence, and writings. Family history materials include a couple of nineteenth-century letters; genealogical correspondence, some with Dr. Lenox Baker of Duke University; birth certificates; wills; a deed; chronological lists of birth dates, marriages, and deaths; newspaper obituaries; a West Point June Week booklet from 1941; and photographic portraits of family members. Family names represented are Massenburg, Mangum, Speed, Gray, Hillard, and Davis. There are also personal correspondence and writings of Fannie Lillian Massenburg, and other materials documenting her membership in First United Methodist Church in Henderson, N.C., and her work as a teacher in Franklin County Public Schools in the early 20th century.

• Photographs (IB-05799/1-3