Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel Papers, 1915-1986

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Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel Papers, 1915-1986

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Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel was born in 1899 in Wadesboro, N.C. After attending Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., January-1916, she matriculated to Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C. She graduated in 1920 and moved with her family to Forest City, N.C., where she met Grover Cleveland McDaniel, whom she married in 1923. They had two sons, Grover Cleveland McDaniel Jr. and Andrew Holmes McDaniel. She spent the rest of her life in Forest City, where she was a homemaker, school teacher, member of the Forest City Woman's Club, and board member at the Mooneyham Public Library. She died in 1989. The collection consists of 30 diaries, 1915-1986, kept by McDaniel throughout her life. Entries are generally short and concern matters of daily life, such as her health, the weather, her friends and family, and day-to-day activities. Also included is a volume containing lists of Christmas presents given and received, 1948-1985; a folder of miscellaneous notes; and a CD-ROM containing transcriptions of the diaries and scans of related photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings, which was compiled by her son, Andrew Holmes McDaniel.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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McDaniel, Virginia Araminta Holmes, 1899-1989.

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Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel was born in 1899 in Wadesboro, N.C. After attending Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., January-1916, she matriculated to Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C. She graduated in 1920 and moved with her family to Forest City, N.C., where she met Grover Cleveland McDaniel, who she married in 1923. They had two sons, Grover Cleveland McDaniel Jr. and Andrew Holmes McDaniel. She spent the rest of her life in Forest City, where she was a homemaker, school teacher, memb...