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Wilson, Mary Faith, 1920-1996. Mary Faith Wilson collection, 1816-1994.

Title: Mary Faith Wilson collection, 1816-1994.

This collection consists mainly of notes and manuscripts of Mary Faith Wilson regarding her family's genealogy. She wrote manuscripts on the Brooks, Davis, and McAdoo families of East Tennessee; and the Hazzard family of South Carolina and Georgia. There are handwritten notes about the Floyd family of Georgia and the Otis family of New England as well as a manuscript about the Otis family (the author of which is uncertain). There are also handwritten and typed copies of the letters and diary of General Charles Rinaldo Floyd (1797-1845), Mary Faith's great-great-grandfather. There is also a copy of Augusta "Gussie" Gallie Floyd's (1848-1926) diary, which was kept from 1872-1874. Also included in the collection are 7 volumes of diaries of Mary Faith McAdoo Wilson (for the years 1906-1911, 1922-1925 and 1929-1933) and 1 diary of Mary Faith Wilson from 1927. Three boxes and 4 oversized folders of photographs accompany this collection and are described in VM 1588. Also included in the collection are photographs of Mary Faith Wilson's family and friends. These pictures cover a wide range of dates and many different photographic processes are represented, from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and card photographs, to twentieth-century nitrate film, and color film. The first box contains photos of the Wilson family and their homes in Illinois and Connecticut. The second box contains photos of the Lynch, Pitt, Otis, Davis, Brooks, and Dickson families. There are pictures of John and Charles Rinaldo Floyd as well of the remains of the Floyd's plantation homes, Bellevue and Fairfield (which are located in Camden County, Georgia). There are also copies of some of Charles Rinaldo Floyd's drawings. The last file in this box contains photos and negatives of unidentified people. The third box in this collection contains mainly photos of the McAdoo family. The fourth box in the collection contains the 6 photograph albums. These albums belonged to Laurence Otis Wilson, Malcolm Ross McAdoo and his wife, Mary Faith Wilson, and Mary Faith McAdoo Wilson (2). The owner of the last album is unclear, but it was someone in the Wilson family. These albums range in date from 1900s to 1940s and contain photos from a variety of places all over the world. Some photos are identified but not all of them. There are two portraits in this collection of General John Floyd and one portrait of Mary Faith Floyd McAdoo (Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo). The first portrait of General Floyd is a 1971 copy made by Christopher Murphy of Savannah, Georgia from the original portrait owned by Picot D. B. Floyd. The second portrait is a copy by Gregory Stapko from the original miniature of General Floyd. The oil portrait of Mary Faith Floyd McAdoo is also a copy by Gregory Stapko of the original owned by Brice McAdoo Clagett. The boxes and four oversized folders in this collection are labeled as to who is in each folder. In oversized folder 4, there is an oversized genealogical chart of the Floyd-McAdoo line. The boxes and folders containing visual materials are noted as "VM" in the collection inventory.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes, 4 oversize folders (4.80 cubic feet)

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