Inventory of the Carney Family Papers, 1898-2002
Collection Number 5136-z
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
- Processed by
- Dawne E. Howard
- Date Processed
- February 2004
- Encoded by
- Dawne E. Howard
- Date Encoded
- February 2004
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Southern Historical Collection
- Creator
- Carney family.
- Title
- Carney Family Papers, 1898-2002
- Call Number
- 5136-z
- Extent
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- About 100 items
- Abstract
- Carney family of Wilmington, N.C., including brothers H. Gaston Carney and Marshall F. Carney, and Marshall Carney's daughter, Lucy Ann Glover. H. Gaston Carney and Marshall Carney were soldiers in World War I. The collection contains World War I items, photographs, souvenirs, and newspaper clippings chiefly relating to H. Gaston Carney and Marshall F. Carney. Materials mainly date from 1918 to 1964, although a few of the photographs are from the late 1890s. Included are five small diaries kept by H. Gaston Carney, September 1918-March 1919, that document his everyday experiences as a soldier in France during World War I. The diaries were transcribed by Lucy Ann Glover in 2002. Photographs include images of military and civilian life. Newspaper clippings relate to the 1927 American Legion reunion in France that Marshall Carney attended and document H. Gaston Carney's insurance industry honors and love of golf. Also included are souvenirs from the American Legion reunion, brochures from a trip to Cuba, and other items.
Administrative Information
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Carney Family Papers #5136-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Carney family.
- Carney, H. Gaston (Hiram Gaston), 1896-1968.
- Carney, Marshall F. (Marshall Frederick), b. 1901.
- Cuba--Description and travel.
- Diaries.
- Family--North Carolina--Photographs.
- Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
- Glover, Lucy Ann.
- Golf--North Carolina.
- Insurance--North Carolina--History.
- Soldiers--United States--Diaries.
- United States. Army--Military life--History--World War, 1914-1918.
- Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
- World War, 1914-1918--France.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1914-1918--Photographs.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans.
Biographical Note
Brothers H. Gaston (Hiram Gaston) Carney (1896-1968) and Marshall Frederick Carney (b. 1901) were born in Wilmington, N.C., the sons of J. G. and Mildred Merritt Carney. Their father was a policeman and a general laborer. They also had a brother named J. H. Carney, who lived in Memphis, Tenn., at the time of H. Gaston Carney's death.
Both brothers served in the United States Army during World War I. Marshall, who lied about his age in order to qualify, fought in the trenches of France. H. Gaston also went overseas, but not until the very end of the war.
After the war, H. Gaston married Anna Maye Gore, daughter of Rufus Gore. Their only child was stillborn. H. Gaston became an insurance salesman for the Shenandoah Life Insurance Company and served as chair of the Board of Elections and chair of the Draft Board during World War II. In his spare time, he played golf, becoming a member of the Professional Golf Association's Hole in One Club in 1949. He was also a member of the Wilmington Association of Life Underwriters, receiving a National Quality Award in 1953 and being named Man of the Year in 1964. He also belonged to the Cape Fear Club, becoming an honorary member after his retirement. H. Gaston Carney died on 3 December 1968, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
In 1927, Marshall Carney returned to France with members of the American Legion on the Red Star Liner. He married Audrey Williford in 1928 and may have traveled to Cuba with her. Their daughter, Ann Carney (1935- ), later Lucy Ann Glover, transcribed H. Gaston's war diaries in 2002.
In 1976, University of North Carolina Press published Ann Carney's No More Here and There: Adopting the Older Child. The book details the problems associated with adopting older children, and Carney used journal entries from her experiences with her adopted son to make the book personal.
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The collection contains World War I items, photographs, souvenirs, newspaper clippings, and other items chiefly relating to brothers H. Gaston Carney and Marshall F. Carney of the Carney family of Wilmington, N.C. Materials mainly date from 1918 to 1964, although a few of the photographs are from the late 1890s. Included are five small diaries kept by H. Gaston Carney, September 1918-March 1919, that document his everyday experiences as a soldier in France during World War I. Marshall Carney's daughter, Lucy Ann Glover, transcribed the diaries in 2002. Photographs include images of military life and civilian life. Newspaper clippings relate to the 1927 American Legion reunion in France that Marshall Carney attended and document H. Gaston Carney's insurance industry honors and love of golf. Also included are souvenirs from the American Legion reunion, brochures from a trip to Cuba, and other items.
Back to TopOrganization of Collection
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1. Military Life
2. Civilian Life
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Series Descriptions
1. Military Life, 1918-1927.
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2. Civilian Life, 1898-1964.
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Items Separated
Items separated include oversize papers (OP-5136/1-2); photographs (P-5136); an oversized photograph (OP-P-5136/1); and museum items (MU-5136/1-4).