Pearson family papers, 1875-1930.

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Pearson family papers, 1875-1930.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43737892

Collection includes family correspondence, miscellaneous receipts and financial documents, and an account ledger kept by Laura Pearson Ray detailing her financial expenses between 1899 and 1929. Correspondents include Laura Pearson Ray, Donald Ray, Wilhelmina Tate, Sue Virginia Tate, Jennie Pearson Tate, Gordan Tate, and other smaller amounts of letters from various Pearsons and Tates. Topics range widely, but notable subjects include courtship, particularly between Laura Pearson and Neill W. Ray; Reconstruction conditions and North Carolina politics (Governor Zebulon Vance, the state's Reconstruction governor, was Laura's cousin); family health; condolence letters following the death of Jennie's son in 1902; travel, particularly Donald Ray's accounts of his trip through Europe in 1912; World War I, including letters from Gordon Tate while he served in France; and various financial matters. Locations discussed or referenced include Morganton, Fayetteville, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Clinton, South Carolina. Laura Pearson Ray kept the ledger beginning in 1899, following her husband's death. The collection also contains Myrtle N. Bridges' typed transcription of the contents of the ledger, with genealogical information about the Pearson and Ray families.

1125 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7533192

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Pearson family.

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Tate family.

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Ray, Neill W.

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Tate, Irene.

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Tate, Jennie Pearson.

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Ray, Donald

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Ray, Laura Pearson.

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Pearson, Ann Elizabeth.

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United daughters of the Confederacy

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