Inventory of the Jarman Family Papers, 1860-1992

Collection Number 4717-z


Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Items Separated
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
Lynn Holdzkom
Date Processed
November 1994
Encoded by
Linda Sellars
Date Encoded
November 2003
Revisions
Updated in July 2007 by Margaret Dickson
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Jarman family.
Title
Jarman Family Papers, 1860-1992
Call Number
4717-z
Extent
About 40 items
Abstract
The Jarman family of Seven Springs, Wayne County, N.C., included Thomas Forrest Jarman (1868-1934); his wife Lula Wooten Jarman (1872-1937); their sons, Forrest Ruel Jarman (1902-1992) and Lawrence Wooten Jarman; and Forrest Ruel Jarman's wife, Georgia Bizzell Jarman (1911- ). Ruel Jarman was interested in local history and served several terms as mayor of Seven Springs. Lawrence Wooten Jarman received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1920.
The collection includes correspondence and other papers of the Jarman and related Wooten family. Included are a few letters, bills, receipts, and deeds of Thomas Forrest and Lula Wooten Jarman, chiefly relating to land purchases and farming. In 1948, there is a letter from Forrest Ruel Jarman to the North Carolina attorney general about re-establishing town government in Seven Springs (then called White Hall), and, in 1959-1960, there are letters relating to the history of the Seven Springs post office. Also included is Ruel Jarman's school notebook, 1919-1920, and an account book with sporadic entries 1918-1989 relating to personal accounts, farm income, crop yields, and military drills. There are also a few family photographs and several of the Seven Springs Hotel and the town itself, including two showing the flood of 1924, and a negative and photocopies of a hand-drawn map of White Hall in 1912.
Language
English.


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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Provenance
Received from Eleanor Jarman Lancaster, Georgia B. Jarman, and George Williams in July 1994 (Acc. 94123) and from George Williams in July 2002 (Acc. 99294) and in July 2005 (Acc. 100143).
Processing Information
Updated in July 2007 by Margaret Dickson because of addition.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Jarman Family Papers #4717-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.
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Online Catalog Headings

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

Agriculture--North Carolina.
Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Floods--Photographs.
Hotels--North Carolina--Photographs.
Jarman family.
Jarman, Forrest Ruel, 1902-1992.
Jarman, Georgia Bizzell, 1911-
Jarman, Lula Wooten, 1872-1937.
Jarman, Thomas Forrest, 1868-1934.
Seven Springs (N.C.)--History.
Seven Springs (N.C.)--Photographs.
Seven Springs (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Seven Springs Hotel (Seven Springs, N.C.)--Photographs.
Wayne County (N.C.)--History.
Wayne County (N.C.)--Photographs.
Wayne County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Wooten family.
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Biographical Note

The Jarman family of Seven Springs, Wayne County, N.C., included Thomas Forrest Jarman (1868-1934); his wife Lula Wooten Jarman (1872-1937); their sons, Forrest Ruel Jarman (1902-1992) and Lawrence Wooten Jarman; and Forrest Ruel Jarman's wife, Georgia Bizzell Jarman (1911- ). Ruel Jarman was interested in local history and served several terms as mayor of Seven Springs. Lawrence Wooten Jarman received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1920.

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Collection Overview

The collection includes correspondence and other papers of the Jarman and related Wooten  family of Seven Springs, N.C. Included are a few letters, bills, receipts, and deeds of Thomas Forrest Jarman and Lula Wooten Jarman, chiefly relating to land purchases and farming. In 1948, there is a letter from Forrest Ruel Jarman to the North Carolina attorney general about re-establishing town government in Seven Springs (then called White Hall), and, in 1959-1960, there are letters relating to the history of the Seven Springs post office. Also included is Ruel Jarman's school notebook, 1919-1920, and an account book with sporadic entries 1918-1989 relating to personal accounts, farm income, crop yields, and military drills. There are also a few family photographs and several of the Seven Springs Hotel and the town itself, including two showing the flood of 1924, and a negative of a hand-drawn map of White Hall in 1912.

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Items Separated

Photographs (P-4717)

Oversize image (OP-P-4717/1)

Detailed Description of the Collection

Papers, 1860-1992.
About 40 items.
The collection includes correspondence and other papers of the Jarman and related Wooten  family of Seven Springs, N.C. Included are a few letters, bills, receipts, and deeds of Thomas Forrest Jarman and Lula Wooten Jarman, chiefly relating to land purchases and farming. In 1948, there is a letter from Forrest Ruel Jarman to the North Carolina attorney general about re-establishing town government in Seven Springs (then called White Hall), and, in 1959-1960, there are letters relating to the history of the Seven Springs post office. Also included is Ruel Jarman's school notebook, 1919-1920, and an account book with sporadic entries 1918-1989 relating to personal accounts, farm income, crop yields, and military drills. There are also a few family photographs and several of the Seven Springs Hotel and the town itself, including two showing the flood of 1924, and a negative and photocopies of a hand-drawn map of White Hall in 1912.
Folder 1
Correspondence and related items:
1860: Josiah Wooten bill for goods and services.
1884: Lula Wooten report card from La Grange Collegiate Institute; Thomas Wooten tuition bill for Lula Wooten.
ca. 1900: photocopy of advertisement for W. R. Simmons, general merchant, Seven Springs, N.C., where Thomas Forrest Jarman kept the books.
1901: routine letter from Thomas Forrest Jarman.
1906: copy of deed to Thomas Forrest and Lula Wooten Jarman for house and land in Seven Springs.
1913: two letters from Thomas Forrest Jarman relating to a property settlement.
1915: receipt from Thomas Forrest Jarman relating to a sharecropping agreement.
1947: letter from Forrest Ruel Jarman to North Carolina attorney general about re-establishing town government in Seven Springs (then called White Hall).
1959-1960: photocopies of letters relating to the history of the Seven Springs post office.
Folder 2
Forrest Ruel Jarman school notebook, 1919-1920.
Folder 3
Account book with sporadic entries, 1919-1920, relating to personal accounts, farm income, crop yields, and military drills.
Folder 4
Other papers, including genealogical information on the Jarman and Wooten families.
Folder 5
Addition of July 2002 (Acc. 99294): University of North Carolina Mid-Term Reports on the work done by Mr. L. W. (Lawrence Wooten) Jarman.
Oversize Image Folder OP-P-4717/1
Addition of July 2005 (Acc. 100143): Negative of hand-drawn map of White Hall, N.C., in 1912, dated 6 June 1988, and two photocopies of the map.
Folder P-4717/1
Photographs (negatives on file):
P-4717/1. Benjamin Franklin Wooten, Lula Wooten Jarman's uncle, who was killed at Brandy Station, Va., during the Civil War, 1860s.
P-4717/2. Thomas Forest Jarman, Lula Wooten Jarman, and Lawrence Wooten Jarman, ca. 1900.
P-4717/3. Seven Springs High School basketball team, 1916-1917, including Forrest Ruel Jarman.
P-4717/4. Forrest Ruel Jarman at the Seven Springs Hotel, 1920s.
P-4717/5. Red House, Seven Springs, used as hospital during the Civil War, 1911.
P-4717/6. Fertilizer boats on the Neuse River, 1913.
P-4717/7. Seven Springs, 1915.
P-4717/8. Seven Springs Hotel, ca. 1915.
P-4717/9. Jarman home, Seven Springs, before 1922.
P-4717/10. Springs at Seven Springs, 1920s.
P-4717/11. Seven Springs High School, 1920s.
P-4717/12-13. Seven Springs flood, 1924.

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