Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History

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        <titleproper>Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History
                    <num>MS866</num>
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        <subtitle>1879-2001, undated, 0.63 linear feet</subtitle>
        <author>Finding aid prepared by Processed by Tara Coady and Stephanie Bennett</author>
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      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline>
          <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109</addressline>
          <addressline>336 758-5755</addressline>
        </address>
        <date>2017 April</date>
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      <creation>This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit
                <date>2017-08-07T13:15-0400</date>
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      <unittitle>Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History</unittitle>
      <unitid>MS866</unitid>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname>
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        <language langcode="eng"/>
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      <physdesc>
        <extent>0.63 linear feet</extent>
        <extent>1 document box, 1 half-document box</extent>
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      <unitdate normal="1879/2001" type="inclusive">1879-2001, undated</unitdate>
      <abstract id="ref31" label="Abstract">The Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History includes historical, biographical, genealogical, and creative materials related to the town of Riverton, North Carolina. In addition to primary historical materials such as church and school programs, the collection includes document photocopies, dramatizations, memoirs, manuscripts, and song lyrics related to Riverton.</abstract>
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    <separatedmaterial id="ref1">
      <head>Separated Materials</head>
      <p>The following books were included with the manuscript donation and can be found using the Z. Smith Reynolds Library catalog: 
                <list><item>McNeill, John Charles. Home in the Sandhills: selected prose by John Charles McNeill. St. Andrews College Press: Laurinburg, N.C., 1997.</item><item>McNeill, John Charles. Lyrics from cotton land. Stone Publishing Co.: Charlotte, N.C., 1922.</item><item>McNeill, John Charles. Lyrics from cotton land. Stone Publishing Co.: Charlotte, N.C., 1949.</item><item>McNeill, John Charles. Lyrics from cotton land. University Press: Chapel Hill, N.C., 1922.</item><item>McNeill, John Charles, and Richard Walser, ed. Possums and persimmons: newly collected poems. Broadfoot's Bookmark: Wendell, N.C., 1977.</item><item>McNeill, John Charles. Songs merry and sad. The University Press: Chapel Hill, N.C., 1906/1932.</item><item>Powers, Mary Rebecca. "Stories of Two Lands: Scotland and America." circa 1950.</item><item>Wright, Marilyn, ed. A Sense of Place. Laurinburg, N.C.: Scotland County Historical Association, 1991.</item></list></p>
    </separatedmaterial>
    <userestrict id="ref36">
      <head>Copyright Notice</head>
      <p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p>
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    <accessrestrict id="ref35">
      <head>Access Restrictions</head>
      <p>Collection is open for researchers.</p>
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    <prefercite id="ref34">
      <head>Preferred Citation</head>
      <p>Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History (MS 866), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p>
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    <scopecontent id="ref33">
      <head>Collection Overview</head>
      <p>The Odessa A. Memory collection of Riverton, N.C., history includes historical, biographical, genealogical, and creative materials related to the town of Riverton, North Carolina. In addition to primary historical materials such as church and school programs, the collection includes document photocopies, dramatizations, memoirs, manuscripts, and song lyrics related to Riverton.</p>
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    <bioghist id="ref39">
      <head>Biographical Note</head>
      <p>Odessa Arnette Memory was married to Duncan Thomas Memory, who was brother to Jasper Livingston Memory, a Wake Forest graduate (1921) and professor. Her father, John Madison Arnette, graduated from Wake Forest College (1902).</p>
    </bioghist>
    <bioghist id="ref37">
      <head>Historical Note</head>
      <p>Odessa A. Memory collected these materials related to the Riverton area of North Carolina. Riverton is a rural area of what is now Scotland County, just outside the Cape Fear River Basin.</p>
    </bioghist>
    <acqinfo id="ref38">
      <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition note</head>
      <p>Donated by John Madison Memory on behalf of the original collector, Odessa Arnette Memory, January 2017.</p>
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          <unittitle>Biographical and historical information</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756008" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756008" type="Folder">8</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref24" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Historical document photocopies</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757003" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1757003" type="Folder">23</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
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      </c>
      <c id="ref27" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Historical document photocopies</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757006" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">2</container>
          <container parent="cid1757006" type="Folder">1</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
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      <c id="ref28" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Historical document photocopies</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757007" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">2</container>
          <container parent="cid1757007" type="Folder">2</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref29" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Historical document photocopies and related correspondence</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757008" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">2</container>
          <container parent="cid1757008" type="Folder">3</container>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref26" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Jackson, Catherine, 
                        <title render="italic">The Road to Riverton</title></unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757005" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1757005" type="Folder">21</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref3" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Johnson, Elbert Neil, "Our Riverton" lyrics</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756002" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756002" type="Folder">2</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref13" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Johnson, Livingston, "History of Spring Hill Church"</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756012" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756012" type="Folder">12</container>
          <unitdate normal="1926/1930" type="inclusive">circa 1926-1930</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref19" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle><title render="italic">Life of Donald Whyte (Daniel White) with Incidents in Scotland and America</title>, typescript</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756018" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756018" type="Folder">18</container>
          <unitdate normal="1879/1879">circa 1879</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref25" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle><title render="italic">Life of Reverend Daniel White pamphlet</title> and 
                        <title render="italic">The Wheel of Faith</title></unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757004" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1757004" type="Folder">24</container>
          <unitdate normal="1879/1969" type="inclusive">circa 1879, 1960s</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref7" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Matthews, Kate, "A Community that is a Tradition," 
                        <title render="italic">Biblical Recorder</title></unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756006" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756006" type="Folder">6</container>
          <unitdate normal="1945/1945">1945</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref11" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Matthews, Mary Johnson, 
                        <title render="italic">Looking Backward</title></unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756010" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756010" type="Folder">10</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref23" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Matthews, William Emery, autobiographical information</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1757002" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1757002" type="Folder">22</container>
          <unitdate normal="1968/1970" type="inclusive">circa 1968-1970</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref2" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>McMillan, Hudson, 
                        <title render="italic">Reminiscences of Riverton</title></unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756001" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756001" type="Folder">1</container>
          <unitdate normal="2001/2001">2001</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref40" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Memory, John Madison, "For Love of a River"</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1852001" type="Box" label="Text">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1852001" type="Folder">25</container>
          <unitdate normal="2000/2009" type="inclusive">circa 2000s</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref18" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Memory, John Madison, "My Uncle Jasper in the 20th Century"</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756017" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756017" type="Folder">17</container>
          <unitdate normal="2001/2001">2001</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref14" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Memory, John Madison, "What is Riverton"</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756013" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756013" type="Folder">13</container>
          <unitdate normal="1991/1991">1991</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref4" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Moore, Isabel, 
                        <title render="italic">Johnsons of Argyll</title></unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756003" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756003" type="Folder">3</container>
          <unitdate normal="1940/1940">1940</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref8" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Newspaper articles</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756007" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756007" type="Folder">7</container>
          <unitdate normal="1940/1991" type="inclusive">1940-1991</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref12" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame induction ceremony bulletin</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756011" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756011" type="Folder">11</container>
          <unitdate normal="1998/1998">1998</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref15" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Parham, Kate, "The House that Jack Built"</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756014" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756014" type="Folder">14</container>
          <unitdate normal="1986/1986">1986</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref10" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Poetry and prose, general</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756009" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756009" type="Folder">9</container>
          <unitdate>undated</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref17" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Riverton newspaper clippings</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756016" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756016" type="Folder">16</container>
          <unitdate normal="1949/1989" type="inclusive">circa 1949-1989</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref6" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Riverton School closing exercises</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756005" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756005" type="Folder">5</container>
          <unitdate normal="1908/1908">1908</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref16" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Riverton writings inventory</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756015" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756015" type="Folder">15</container>
          <unitdate normal="1990/2001" type="inclusive">circa 1990-2001</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref21" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Steiner, Jesse Frederick. 
                        <title render="italic">American Community in Action</title>, chapters 2-3 draft</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756020" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756020" type="Folder">20</container>
          <unitdate normal="1928/1928">circa 1928</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref20" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle>Steiner, Jesse Frederick. 
                        <title render="italic">American Community in Action</title>, chapter 3</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756019" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756019" type="Folder">19</container>
          <unitdate normal="1928/1928">1928</unitdate>
        </did>
      </c>
      <c id="ref5" level="file">
        <did>
          <unittitle><title render="italic">The Wheel of Faith</title> manuscript</unittitle>
          <container id="cid1756004" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container>
          <container parent="cid1756004" type="Folder">4</container>
          <unitdate normal="1960/1960">circa 1960s</unitdate>
        </did>
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