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[Identification of item], in the Connie Jean Stone Collection #20247-z, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells, November 2018

Encoded by: Anne Wells, November 2018

Archival processing of the Connie Jean Stone Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.

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• Coleman, Ollie, 1921-2003.
• Coleman, Roy, 1917-1986.
• Ghost stories, American--North Carolina.
• Legends--North Carolina.
• Stone, Connie Jean.
• Storytelling--North Carolina.
• Superstition--North Carolina.
• Tales--North Carolina.

• McKellar Israel Collection #20176

Connie Jean Stone graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977. While a student at UNC, Stone recorded Roy Coleman and Ollie Coleman, husband and wife storytellers of Iredell County, N.C., for a folklore class project in the Department of English. Stone later published an article, titled "Witches of Iredell County", in the North Carolina Folklore Journal in 1976.

The Connie Jean Stone Collection contains an open reel audio recording of husband and wife, Roy Coleman and Ollie Coleman, white storytellers of Iredell County, N.C. On the recording, Roy and Ollie Coleman perform ghost stories, witch stories, and supernatural legends related to Iredell County, including stories about family members. Connie Jean Stone, a white student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, made the recording for a folklore class (Folk 186-187) project while at UNC. The collection consists of an open reel dub made from audiocassette originals, as well as supporting documentation consisting of a tape log created by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. The tape log includes performer names, subjects discussed on the recording, and information on related material.

• Audiotape (FT-354)