Inventory of the Edwards Family Papers, 1800-1889

Collection Number 3058


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
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/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Edwards family.
Title
Edwards Family Papers, 1800-1889.
Call Number
3058
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
4 items.
Abstract
MICROFILM ONLY. A History of West Edwards and His Descendants (28 pages), written in 1889 by Charles Henry Edwards (born 1834), describing, from oral tradition, the move of his grandfather, father, and uncles from North Carolina to Tennessee, circa 1815, and other aspects of his family's life in antebellum Sumner County, Tenn.; and three deeds, 1800, 1819, and 1820, from Greene County, N.C.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Originals returned to private owner in 1954.
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Edwards Family Papers, #3058, Southern Historical Collection, The 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Edwards family.
Edwards, Charles Henry, b. 1834.
Edwards, West.
Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Greene County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
Sumner County (Tenn.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
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Collection Overview

MICROFILM ONLY. A "History of West Edwards and His Descendants" (28 pages), written in 1889 by Charles Henry Edwards (born 1834), describing, from oral tradition, the move of his grandfather, father, and uncles from North Carolina to Tennessee, circa 1815, and other aspects of his family's life in antebellum Sumner County, Tenn.; and three deeds, 1800, 1819, and 1820, from Greene County, N.C.