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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Willie Snow Ethridge papers #4400, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mark Ethridge, Jr., Columbia, South Carolina, on behalf of himself, his brother David, and his sister Georgia Ethridge Schneider, in March and October 1984; and from Georgia Ethridge Schneider in August and September 1988.

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• Authors, American--20th century.
• Courier-journal (Louisville, Ky.)
• Ethridge, Mark F. (Mark Foster), 1896-1981.
• Ethridge, Willie Snow.
• Journalists--Kentucky--History--20th century.
• Newspaper editors--Kentucky--History--20th century.
• Women authors, American--20th century.

• MARK FOSTER ETHRIDGE PAPERS (#3842). Mark Foster Ethridge was Willie Snow Ethridge's husband.

Willie Snow Ethridge (1900-1983) was a columnist, author of volumes of humorous reminiscences and other works, recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Kentucky and Mercer University, resident of Chatham County, N.C., in the 1960s and 1970s, and wife of Mark Foster Ethridge, editor and publisher of the Louisville "Courier-Journal", 1942-1962.

Typescripts of unpublished book-length writings by Ethridge about her husband, Mark Foster Ethridge; newspaper clippings about Ethridge and her husband; items related to the Ethridges' house in Chatham County, N.C.; and about seventy-five letters to Ethridge, including fifty from her husband.