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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 700 items) |
Abstract | 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, and personal correspondence, writings, and other materials related to her church membership and work as a school teacher. Family names represented are Massenburg, Mangum, Speed, Gray, Hillard, and Davis. |
Creator | Massenburg, Fannie Lillian, 1892-1985. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, Gillian McCuistion, and Biff Hollingsworth, February 2020
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2020
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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopArrangement: as received.
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Correspondence |
"My dear darling boy," 1883 |
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Letter to Colonel Ellison Mangum, 1853 |
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Letters from Nannie Speed and Addison Sr. |
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Letters to Lillian Massenburg |
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Funeral and property deed |
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Fannie Lillian MassenburgLetters, clippings, writings. |
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Church and spiritual |
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Obituaries |
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Family record |
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Teaching and schools, principal |
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School |
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American Cotton Association certificate, 1920 |
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Genealogy and birth certificates |
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Postcards and Civil War stamps |
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Louisburg, N.C. |
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Jane and Ruby Grey |
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West Point June week, 1941Cargill Barnett. |
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Image Box IB-05799/1-3
IB-05799/1IB-05799/2IB-05799/3 |
Massenburg family photographs, 1850s-1980sAmbrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Tintypes, Photographic Prints 300 Images |