Lewis family of Edgecombe County, N.C., papers, 1730-1956, 1996-1998.

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Lewis family of Edgecombe County, N.C., papers, 1730-1956, 1996-1998.

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The collection includes family correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other items of the extended family of Exum Lewis. Most of the papers relate to eastern North Carolina, but there are a number of letters from family members in Alabama and Mississippi. Topics discussed include health, births and deaths, clothing, agriculture, and other routine matters. There are a number of letters from family members and friends that discuss 19th-century student life at the University of North Carolina. Political matters are only mentioned occasionally, and Civil War letters dwell chiefly on concerns of the homefront. There are also records relating to land sales, purchases, and ownership; items relating to plantation business, including the condition of slaves; an 1857 travel diary, perhaps belonging to Ivey Foreman Lewis (1833-1884), describing a trip to Europe; and notes for lectures, 1883-1887, on physiology and hygiene by Richard Henry Lewis (1832-1917). There are also photograph albums and scrapbooks relating to Richard Henry Lewis's grandson McDaniel Lewis (1894-1978) and his first wife Lynnwood Cook Lewis (1896-1964), their daughters Margaret (b. 1920) and Mary Lynn (b. 1926), and their grandchildren.

About 500 items (1.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7323284

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lewis, Lynnwood Cook, 1896-1964.

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Lewis, Ivey Foreman, 1833-1884.

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The Lewis family, of Hale and Marengo counties, Ala., owned several plantations before and after the Civil War. From the guide to the Lewis Plantation Papers, ., 1857-1916, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Lewis, Exum, d. ca. 1839.

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Lewis, Richard Henry, 1832-1917

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Richard Henry Lewis, Sr., taught and practiced medicine in Henderson County, Wake County, Kinston, and Hendersonville. He was president of Kinston College and briefly of Judson College in Hendersonville. Members of both sides of his family, including Elisha Battle and Col. Exum Lewis, were prominent in the law, business, and medical fields. Lewis's father, John Wesley Lewis (d. 1843), was a doctor who practiced in Edgecombe County, Raleigh, and Warrenton. From the description of Rich...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Bryant family.

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Lewis family.

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Lewis family members include Exum Lewis (d. ca. 1839), planter, postmaster, and county court justice of Mount Prospect Plantation, Edgecombe County, N.C. Prominent in the papers are Exum Lewis; his son Kenelm Harrison Lewis (1816-1866) and Kenelm's wife, Elizabeth Heritage Bryan Lewis (fl. 1842-1884), and her father, John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870); and Exum's other sons, Richard Henry Lewis (1806-1857), and William Figures Lewis (1819-1910). Included are materials of the related Bryan family. T...

Bradley family.

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Lewis, McDaniel, 1894-1978

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Lewis, Richard Henry, 1806-1857.

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Lewis, Elizabeth Herritage Bryan, fl. 1842-1884.

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Bryan, John Heritage, 1798-1870

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John Herritage (Heritage) Bryan (1798-1870) was an attorney of New Bern and later Raleigh. He represented Craven County in the State Senate (1823-1825) and was elected to Congress in 1825 as a National Republican. After serving in Congress for two terms, Bryan returned to his New Bern law practice until moving to Raleigh around 1839. In 1863, Charlotte, daughter of John Herritage and Mary Shepard Bryan, married Confederate Major General Bryan Grimes of Grimesland in Pitt County....

Lewis, Kenelm Harrison, 1816-1866.

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