Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4776
MCCOLL FAMILY PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: McColl family of Bennettsville, Marlboro County,
S.C., and Charlotte, N.C., including Duncan Donald
McColl (1842-1911), lawyer, banker, and businessman;
his wife, Nellie Thomas McColl (1846-1917); their
children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and
great-great grandchildren. Papers focus especially on
Hugh Leon McColl (1874-1931), banker, and his wife,
Gabrielle Palmer Drake McColl (1882-1964); Hugh Leon
McColl (1905-1994), banker, and his wife, Frances
Carroll McColl (1906-1987); Hugh Leon McColl (1935- ),
banker and Chief Executive Officer of NationsBank, and
his wife, Jane Spratt McColl (1938- ), and their
children: Hugh Leon McColl (1960- ), John Spratt
McColl (1963- ), and Jane McColl Lockwood (1967- ).
Correspondence, business papers, legal
documents, and other material tracing more than a
century of personal, business, civic, and military
activity of the McColl family. Many items relate to
the Bank of Marlboro, founded by Duncan Donald McColl
and later headed by Hugh L. McColl (1874-1931) and his
son, Hugh L. McColl (1905-1994). Besides
correspondence and other papers of the Bank of
Marlboro, there are records of the Marlboro Trust
Company, estates of various McColl family members, and
related financial material. Family materials include
much correspondence from the younger McColls,
especially Hugh L. McColl (1905-1994) while at Bailey
Military Academy in Greenwood, S.C., and the
University of North Carolina; Gabrielle McColl Wilson
(1911- ) at the University of North Carolina; and Hugh
L. McColl (1935- ) at the University of North Carolina
and the United States Marine Corps base at Quantico,
Va. Other family material consists of post cards,
genealogical items on the McColl and Drake families;
writings by various McColl family members, especially
Gabrielle Drake McColl; and school records, yearbooks,
and related material.
Online Catalog Terms:
Bailey Military Academy--Students--Social life and customs.
Bank of Marlboro (Bennettsville, S.C.).
Banks and banking--South Carolina--History
Bennettsville (S.C.)--History.
Bennettsville (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
Drake family.
Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
Lockwood, Jane McColl, 1967- .
Marlboro County (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
Marlboro County (S.C.)--History.
Marlboro County (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
Marlboro Trust Company (Bennettsville, S.C.).
McColl, Duncan Donald, 1842-1911.
McColl family.
McColl, Frances.
McColl, Gabrielle Drake, 1882-1964.
McColl, Hugh Leon, 1874-1931.
McColl, Hugh Leon, 1905-1994.
McColl, Hugh L.
McColl, Hugh Leon, 1960- .
McColl, Jane Spratt, 1939- .
McColl, John Spratt, 1963- .
McColl, Nellie Thomas, 1846-1917.
Soldiers--United States--Correspondence--History--20th
century.
South Carolina--Economic conditions--19th century.
South Carolina--Economic conditions--20th century.
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social
life and customs--20th century.
Wilson, Gabrielle McColl, 1911- .
Size: About 8,600 items (13.0 linear feet).
Date Span: 1834-1996.
Provenance: Received from Hugh McColl, Jr., October 1995 (Acc.
95126) and from Rhetta Wilson in January 2004 (Acc.
99691).
Access: Microfilm copy available.
RESTRICTED: Folders 18-39 and microfilm reels 2
and 3 are RESTRICTED until 31 October 2020. Use
requires written permission of the donor.
Folders 23-34 withdrawn by donor in January 2003.
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support
from Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
Related Collections: Duncan Donald McColl Papers, South
Carolinana Library, University of South
Carolina.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items
Series 2. Financial and Legal
Series 3. Writings
Series 4. Subject Files
Series 5. Genealogy
Series 6. Other Papers
Series 7. Pictures
Microfilm Reel List
INTRODUCTION
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Duncan Donald McColl (1842-1911) was born in Richmond County,
N.C., the son of David and Margaret McColl McColl. He lived with
his family on their farm near present-day Maxton, N.C., until the
age of 16, when he moved to Bennettsville, S.C., to live with his
uncle, Peter McColl, Clerk of Common Pleas and General Sessions
Courts for Marlboro County, S.C. Duncan Donald McColl fought in
the Civil War with Company A of First North Carolina Heavy
Artillery. After the war, McColl returned to Bennettsville and
began his law studies. He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar
in 1866 and practiced as a Solicitor in Equity Court. In 1872,
he took a commission as Solicitor for the Fourth Judicial
Circuit. On 23 December 1884, McColl and ten other Bennettsville
businessmen formed the Bank of Marlboro. This bank was one of
the few small town banks in the South. In addition to the Bank
of Marlboro, Duncan D. McColl worked to establish railroad lines
into Bennettsville and, in 1896, helped finance the Bennettsville
Cotton Mill. McColl served as the first president of the mill
and later merged it with three mills in McColl, S.C. The new
company became Marlboro Cotton Mills, and Duncan D. McColl served
as its director until his death in 1911.
Duncan D. McColl married Nellie Deborah Thomas, daughter of
the Rev. J. A. W. and Margaret Spears Thomas. Their children
were Pearl McColl McLeod (1871-1936); Alexa McColl Carroll (1872-
1946); Hugh Leon McColl (1874-1931); Nellie Evans McColl (1875-
1878?); Duncan Donald McColl (1877-1930); Nell McColl Pringle
(1879-1936); and David Kenneth McColl (1883-1952).
Hugh Leon McColl (1874-1931) continued to run the family
banking business. He married Gabrielle Palmer Drake (1882-1964),
daughter of James Alexander and Gabrielle Palmer Drake.
Gabrielle Drake McColl was an early graduate of Converse College
in Spartanburg, S.C. She published articles on gardening and ran
Green Gate Gardens, a mail-order business specializing in irises
from her Bennettsville home. Hugh and Gabrielle McColl had three
children: Marjorie McColl Uzzle (1902-1992), Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
(1905-1994); and Gabrielle McColl Wilson (1911- ).
Hugh L. McColl (1905-1994) attended Bailey Military Institute
in Greenwood, S.C. Upon his graduation in 1923, he enrolled in
the University of North Carolina and graduated with a Bachelor of
Science in Commerce (1927). McColl ran the Bank of Marlboro;
although during the Depression, he liquidated the bank's assets
to help stockholders who had faced losses. The Bank of Marlboro
was formally dissolved on 30 December 1953. Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
married Frances Carroll McColl. Their children were: Frances
McColl Covington (1932-1990); Hugh Leon McColl (1935- ); David
Kenneth McColl, III (1937- ); and James Carroll McColl (1939- ).
Hugh L. McColl (1935- ) attended Bennettsville High School,
where he was class president his senior year (1953). Like his
father, he attended the University of North Carolina and
graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
(1957). After college, McColl served in the United States Marine
Corps. In September 1959, he began his banking career in the
training program of American Commercial Bank in Charlotte, N.C.
In 1965, he was promoted to vice president and area director for
the National Division of North Carolina National Bank, the bank
formed from the merger of American Commercial Bank with Security
National. McColl's rise in North Carolina National Bank
continued through the 1960s and 1970s. He was senior vice
president and National Division executive in 1968; executive vice
president in charge of international, national, and correspondent
banking in 1970. In 1973, he was elected a vice chairman and
director of the bank and became president in January 1974. In
1983, McColl became chief executive officer of North Carolina
National Bank. Following several mergers with banks outside of
North Carolina, North Carolina National Bank changed its name to
NationsBank in 1992.
Information on Hugh L. McColl's (1935- ) banking career from
Howard E. Covington, Jr. and Marion A. Ellis, The Story of
NationsBank (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993).
COLLECTION OVERVIEW
The collection is arranged as follows:
Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items
Subseries 1.1. Family Correspondence
Subseries 1.2. Post Cards
Series 2. Financial and Legal
Subseries 2.1. Bank of Marlboro and Related Items
Subseries 2.2. Tax Returns
Subseries 2.3. Marlboro Trust Co.
Subseries 2.4. Family Estates and Finances
Series 3. Writings
Subseries 3.1. Gabrielle Drake McColl
Subseries 3.2. D. D. McColl
Subseries 3.3. Other McColls
Series 4. Subject Files
Series 5. Genealogy
Subseries 5.1. McColl Family
Subseries 5.2. Drake Family
Subseries 5.3. Other Families
Series 6. Other Papers
Subseries 6.1. Education
Subseries 6.2. Calendars and Day Books
Subseries 6.3. Awards and Certificates
Subseries 6.4. Newspapers, Clippings, and Magazines
Subseries 6.5. Military Service
Series 7. Pictures
Subseries 7.1. Loose Prints
Subseries 7.2. Photo Albums
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items
1834-1995 and undated. About 2,600 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence and post cards primarily to and from McColl
family members and friends. Despite the fact that the McColls
all lived in and near Bennettsville, S.C., the bulk of this
subseries is family correspondence. The younger McColls wrote to
their parents from school, and McColl brides were faithful
correspondents with their new mothers-in-law. The post cards in
this subseries trace family and business trips to Europe, Asia,
and all over the United States and Canada.
Subseries 1.1. Family Correspondence
1834-1995 and undated. About 1,600 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Letters to and from several generations of McColl family
members dealing chiefly with the courtship, education, child-
rearing, and related matters. The majority of the earliest
letters were from Duncan Donald McColl (1842-1911) to his future
wife, Nellie Thomas (1846-1917). In his letter of 13 February
1870, Duncan McColl wrote, "I am candid to confess the greatest
pleasure I have in writing to you, is the gratification of my own
selfishness--the hope and expectation of hearing from you in
return." Duncan McColl wrote of family, friends, school, church,
and his daily life as an attorney in Bennettsville, S.C. On 30
April 1870, Duncan McColl announced that he and a few friends had
organized a debating society: "I wish you could see with what
dignity and formality [Mr. S] presides! `Is woman man's equal?
And ought she to be allowed to vote?' is our next query. I know
you are ready to say the ladies don't stand the ghost of a chance
of getting fair play in such a crowd." Duncan wrote that he
would side with the ladies if it were not for the voting clause.
After the marriage of Duncan McColl to Nellie Thomas in
September 1870, the correspondence between family members becomes
less frequent. The notable exception is Duncan D. McColl's visit
to Europe in 1906. On 6 July 1906, Duncan wrote to his sons,
Kenneth and Hugh, about the region around Appin, Scotland. "Pass
through the Appin Country today and was on the look out for the
McColls. Found and [sic] old man named John McColl. Another
Hugh McColl and another whose first name I do not remember. None
are well off all just tenants of some land owner. This is fine
country for scenery etc. but a poor country to get on in."
Duncan Donald McColl and Nellie Thomas McColl had three sons.
Their eldest, Hugh Leon McColl (1874-1911) married Gabrielle
Palmer Drake (1882-1964). The remainder of the correspondence in
this subseries took place between members of Hugh L. McColl's
family. In the 1920s, the primary correspondent was Hugh L.
McColl (1905-1994). The younger Hugh wrote to his parents from
his high school, Bailey Military Institute in Greenwood, S.C. In
these letters, he wrote about his grades, his friends, his
studies, and how much he missed hunting and his dogs Boob and
Snow. After graduation, Hugh L. McColl attended the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. McColl was a rather lackluster
student, although in many of his letters assured his parents he
was studying very hard: "am studying and like all of my teachers
fine...Yes `C's' & D is a passing mark and I once heard Dr.
Connor tell Lawrence Watt that a `C' was a gentleman's grade."
(11 January 1925) Hugh's two sisters, Marjorie and Gabrielle,
also wrote to their parents. Marjorie attended Wellesley
College, and Gabrielle went to Converse College in Spartanburg,
S.C. Gabrielle later transferred to the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill. In a long letter to her father, dated
21 April 1930, she elaborated her reasons for wanting to leave
Converse. "It seems to me, although it may be a prejudice of
mine, that Converse will not give me as much as North Carolina
would....I am very much interested in both secretarial and
library work, and of course, you have to have special training
for both of those....I have really two main purposes in the N.C.
idea. First, I believe that I would have a broader choice of
academic work and probably more informative....Secondly, I do
feel cramped rather here at Converse. I do not think it is
exactly broadening to be confined as much as we are here...I do
the same thing every day, see the same people, and do not have
any opportunities to get out and see people."
In the 1930s and 1940s, Hugh and his sisters married and began
to raise children of their own. Much of the correspondence
during World War II came to the McColls from relatives serving in
the Army and from friends in Great Britain. Herbert Davies, a
friend of the family, wrote to Gabrielle Drake McColl on 8 March
1940 to calm her fears about the situation in England: "So far,
believe it or not, the war has made singularly little difference
to the tenor of life in England....We are `blacked-out' at night
as a safeguard against air attacks on towns....The first bomb
which kills a man, woman, or child (particularly the woman or
child) will send in train such a retribution as will make Master
Hun sorry he started. We in this country have been trained to
expect raids, they in Germany have been told they are immune that
Britain is decadent....What will Hitler's foul regime be worth
when we adopt a form of war which we will not start but which we
cannot prevent once the Huns start?"
Folder 1 1834-1899
2 1904-1909
3 1912-1919
4 1920-1921
5 1922-1923
6 1924-1925
7 1926
8 1927
9 1928-1929
10 1930
11 January-March 1931
12 April 1931-April 1932
13 May 1932-1933
14 1935-1939
15 1940-1941
16 1942-1943
17 1944-1945
18-39 1946-1995 and undated (RESTRICTED)
(Folders 23-34 withdrawn in January 2003)
Subseries 1.2. Post Cards
1903-1986 and undated. About 1,000 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Post cards sent to various McColl family members from friends
and relatives travelling in the United States, Canada, and
overseas. The majority of the post cards in the subseries date
from the 1910s and 1920s.
Folder 40 1903-1907
41 1908-1909
42 1910
43 1911
44 January-July 1912
45 August-December 1912
46 January-August 1913
47 September 1913-September 1917
48 December 1917-December 1919
49 June-September 1920
50 December 1920-August 1921
51 October 1921-1922
52 1923
53 1924
54 1925
55 1926-1929
56 1932-March 1937
57 April-December 1937
58 1938-18 August 1941
59 19 August 1941-1942
60 1944-1949
61 1950-1957
62 1958-1959 and undated 1950s
63 1960-1969 and undated 1960s
64 April 1971-1979
65 1980-1982
66 1983-1986
67-69 Undated
70-71 Blank Postcards
Series 2. Financial and Legal
1866-1990 and undated. About 3,000 items.
Arrangement: by topic.
Series 2.1. Bank of Marlboro and Related Material
1866-1990 and undated. About 1,600 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, bank reports, bonds, deeds, insurance papers,
and other records pertaining chiefly to the Bank of Marlboro and
other McColl family business interests. This subseries begins
with the business papers of Duncan Donald McColl (1843-1911), who
was an attorney in Bennettsville. In 1884, D. D. McColl along
with ten other Bennettsville businessmen founded the Bank of
Marlboro. The bank's charter stated that it would have capital
of not less than $50,000, that shares were $100 each, and that
the bank would have open books for subscription to capital stock.
Although the $50,000 capital met the National Bank Act of 1863
standards, the Bank of Marlboro suffered in the early years. As
McColl reported to his fellow shareholders on 6 September 1888,
"owing to the fact that we have only one money crop in county,
cotton, and with no other industry in the County [sic.] bringing
in money, our deposit account is bound to run low in summer. In
my judgement all proper means should be used by the officers and
stockholders of the Bank to induce the general public to use the
Bank as a depository. It is mutually of benefit to the Bank and
to the Depositor [sic], and also to the community."
Under the leadership of Duncan D. McColl and his sons, the
Bank of Marlboro became a sound financial institution, even
through the Depression. On 10 January 1931, W. H. Wood,
president of American Trust Company in Charlotte, N.C., wrote to
congratulate Hugh McColl (1874-1931) on the soundness of the
bank, "I read your financial statement of December 31 with a
great deal of interest. You have a distinction that is unique,
in that you have the strongest bank in the world, with far more
cash on hand and in banks than you have on deposit. The Bank of
England and the Federal Reserve cannot match you in strength."
However, despite its durability, the Bank of Marlboro was
liquidated in 1933. Hugh McColl (1905-1994) sold off the bank's
assets to provide money for many of the stockholders who were
experiencing financial difficulties because of the Depression.
Both Hughs had considered selling the bank and there is
considerable correspondence from bankers in North and South
Carolina, as well as, New York to obtain the Bank of Marlboro.
The selling off of the Bank did not sit well with every member of
the McColl family. In a letter to his sister, Pearl M. McLeod,
David K. McColl expressed his resistance to the liquidation,
"largely for sentimental reasons I have been bitterly opposed to
this liquidation. I feel after the bank has been a prosperous
institution for nearly fifty years there is no fundamental reason
why it cannot be properly carried on and earn money for its
stockholders and prove a means to help legitimate business. But
Little Hugh seems to feel it is detrimental to his financial and
physical interest to continue the bank...therefore, I see nothing
to do but to agree to their plans regardless of my personal
feelings." (11 December 1933) In 1933, the Bank of Marlboro had
resources amounting to $831,430.30, including cash in banks in
New York; Charleston, S.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; and Richmond, Va.
(11 March 1933). Hugh McColl (19105-1994) kept the Bank of
Marlboro in a liquidated state until 30 December 1953. During
that twenty year period, the bank did not conduct any business
and no leans were made. There would remain, in the vault, enough
money to pay the last of the depositors, even after McColls death
in 1994. After effectively liquidating the Bank of Marlboro,
Hugh McColl, Jr. began work for McColl & Co. Cotton Merchants on
2 December 1935.
Although the McColls ran the Bank of Marlboro efficiently, a
few of the letters indicate that banking was a hazardous industry
in the 1920s. On 24 July 1922, Hugh McColl (1874-1931) wrote to
his brother-in-law, Ernest H. Pringle asking Pringle to write a
letter to Governor Wilson G. Harvey on behalf of Thomas B.
McLaurin. McLaurin was the president of the Mutual Savings Bank
in Bennettsville. In November 1920, he and two of his assistants
disappeared leaving the bank with a deficit of $109,000. McColl
had been put in charge of the receivership of the Mutual Savings
Bank. In the letter, McColl told his brother-in-law why he felt
that mercy should be shown to McLaurin, "now if this man McLaurin
had stolen or used the bank's funds for his own personal gain I
would not raise my hand to assist him, but it is not this way.
He got to the place where he would pay one cent a pound over the
market price for cotton and as high as 16% for money, all of his
acts showing a lack of judgment instead of rascality."
Hugh McColl (1874-1931) also found himself in the position of
petitioning for clemency on behalf of a former Bank of Marlboro
employee, Ruric Sampson. McColl recommended Sampson to a West
Palm Beach bank in May of 1921. Two years and half years later,
McColl wrote to the Superintendent of Prisons for a parole for
Sampson, "for this unfortunate man as I believe he has had a
lasting lesson and is anxious to get out and support his family."
(17 November 1923) Sampson had been found guilty of theft from
the West Palm Beach bank and sent to the Federal penitentiary in
Atlanta, Ga.
In addition to records on the Bank of Marlboro, the subseries
also contains correspondence on public works projects in
Bennettsville in the early 20th century, routine letters about
stock and bonds holdings for various McColl family members, and
correspondence about rental agreements and other related business
matters.
Folder 72 1866-1893
73 1894-1904
74 1905-1907
75 January-April 1908
76 May 1908-1909
77 1910-1913
78 1914-1916
79 1917-1919
80 1920
81 1921-1922
82 1923-1924
83 1925-1927
84 1928-May 1929
85 August 1929-December 1929 and undated 1929 and 1920s
86 March-May 1930
87 June 1930-July 1930
88 August-December 1930
89 January-February 1931
90 March 1931
91 April 1931
92 May 1931
93 June 1931
94 July 1931-August 1931
95 September 1931-December 1931 and undated
96 January-December 1932
97 January-December 1933
98 January 1934-May 1934
99 June-November 1934
100 December 1934-August 1935
101 October 1935-December 1935
102 January 1936-June 1936
103 July 1936-October 1936
104 November 1936-1939; undated 1930s
105 February 1940-August 1940
106 September 1940-1942
107 1944-1949
108 1950
109 1951-1954
110 1955-1960
111 1962-1964
112 1965-1967
113 1968-1970
114 1971-1978
115 1980-1990 and undated 1980s and 1990s.
116-117 Undated
Subseries 2.2. Tax Returns
1913-1990. About 150 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily personal income tax returns for federal, state, and
local taxes for Hugh McColl (1874-1931) and his son, Hugh McColl
(1905-1994). This subseries also contains a 1923 return for the
Bank of Marlboro.
Folder 118 1913-1920
119 1921-1923
120 1924-1929
121 1930-1931
122 1932-1971
123 1980 and 1990
Subseries 2.3. Marlboro Trust Company
1929-1965 and undated. About 250 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Stockholders and boards of directors meeting minutes,
resolutions passed, financial statements, and other similar
documents for the Marlboro Trust Company, a banking institution
founded in Bennettsville in 1919. Although none of the McColls
are listed on the corporate charter, both David K. McColl (1883-
1952) and Hugh L. McColl (1905-1994) served on the boards of
directors. Over the years, Hugh McColl (1905-1994) would become
one of the major stockholders in the Marlboro Trust Company.
Folder 124 1929-June 1944
125 1945-1960
126 1961-1965 and undated
Subseries 2.4. Family Estates and Finances
1911-1994. About 800 items.
Arrangement: by person and by topic.
Correspondence, legal documents, receipts, and ledger books
concerning estates of various McColl family members and the
household expenses of Hugh McColl (1874-1931) and Hugh McColl
(1905-1994). The female McColls left wills that stated how
family jewelry and heirloom pieces would be divided up.
Gabrielle Drake McColl stipulated that her daughter-in-law,
Frances Carroll McColl (1906-1987) have "my diamond sunburst pin,
and my silver service which includes tray, coffee pot, tea pot,
sugar bowl and cream pitcher." The male McColls wrote wills that
tried to keep their estates from lengthy and costly probating.
In a letter to his son, dated 3 May 1988, Hugh McColl (1905-1994)
stated "I believe it is best to have you, Kenneth, and Jimmy as
my executors. I know it will be lots of trouble but I believe it
will save around $75,000."
Folder 127-129 Duncan Donald McColl (1842-1911)
130-131 Duncan Donald McColl (1877-1930)
132 Gabrielle Drake McColl (1882-1964)
133-135 Hugh Leon McColl (1874-1931)
136 Hugh Leon McColl (1905-1994)
137 Nellie T. McColl (1846-1917)
138-140 Related Family Estates
141 Insurance Papers
142-144 Personal Finances
Series 3. Writings
1882-1920s. About 200 items.
Arrangement: by author.
Subseries 3.1. Gabrielle Drake McColl
1897-1920s About 190 items.
Articles, notes, poems, rough drafts, notes, and
correspondence about publishing. Gabrielle Drake McColl wrote
primarily about gardening and irises. She also wrote poetry,
book reviews, and essays on diverse topics, such as, South
Carolina history and North Carolina writers. One paper, written
in the 1920s, pondered the question of what future historians
would label the second quarter of the twentieth century;
"[n]evertheless, let us try to give it a name. Shall we call it
Bursting the Bonds of the Spirit? You has cast off Victorian
convention which shackled its fast moving stride..." (folder
146). This subseries also has a photocopy and transcript of an
essay by Gabrielle Drake McColl written on 21 May 1897 upon her
completion of Marlboro Graded School. In the composition
entitled "What shall I do with it?," Gabrielle Palmer Drake
wondered `What shall the future appalling now in its emptiness,
its dread uncertainty bring to me?' (folder 147)
Folders 145-147
Subseries 3.2. D.D. McColl
1920s. 3 items.
Two typescripts of a letter written by Duncan Donald McColl
(1877-1930) to his niece and typewritten notes on the town of
McColl, S.C. In the letter, to Mary Ford Pringle Fenhagen
Anderson, D. D. McColl wrote about his father, Duncan Donald
McColl (1842-1911). McColl told his niece about his father's
childhood, education, and businesses. The notes on the town of
McColl, S.C., are dated 1925. They may have been intended for
another book on Marlboro Co., S.C. D. D. McColl had previously
authored a book entitled Sketches of Old Marlboro (1916).
Folder 148
Subseries 3.3. Other McColl Writings
1883-1910s. 4 items.
Frontpiece of a poetry volume, two typescripts of short
stories, and one typescript of a travel diary. The frontpiece is
for a volume of poetry written by Mary J. MacColl [sic]. The
short stories were written by Nellie Thomas McColl (1846-1917),
wife of Duncan Donald McColl (1842-1911). This subseries also
contains a typescript of a travel diary kept by Nellie T. McColl
on a trip abroad in 1912. The trip took her to England, France,
the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Despite her
poor health, Nellie McColl looked forward to the trip. "American
tourists are not supposed to know any foreign history, or whether
Shakespeare is dead, or who painted all those queer old Madonnas
with blue eyes and adolescent juvenile faces with not a line nor
shadow on them, all of them with an over-fat baby somewhere
about. But not withstanding our ignorance, some of us long for
the pictures, the art treasures, the dim cathedrals, the
wonderful scenery, the grand castles, the neat wayside homes, as
for the return of a beautiful dream."
Folder 149
Series 4. Subject Files
1920s-1990s. About 900 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by topic.
Pamphlets, articles, journals, correspondence, catalogues, and
other related items. This subseries contains material collected
by various McColl family members. The topics reflect divergent
interests. Gabrielle Drake McColl was an enthusiastic iris
gardener. Her hobby eventually became a business called "Green
Gate Gardens." Hugh McColl (1935- ) was an avid baseball fan and
onetime stamp collector. Material on South Carolina history,
politics, and a variety of literary and poetry journals were some
of the other subjects of interest to family members.
Folder 150 Baseball
151 Bennettsville and Marlboro County
152-153 Churches and Religion
154-155 Converse College Alumnae
156 Guest Lists and Invitations
157-160 Iris Gardening
161 Philanthropic Organizations
162 Politics
163-166 Printed Material
167 Programs
168 South Carolina History
169 Stamp Collecting
170 Travel Brochures
171 World War I and II
Series 5. Genealogy
1831-1992. About 600 items.
Arrangement: by surname.
Subseries 5.1 McColl Family
1846-1992 and undated. About 400 items.
Arrangement: by topic.
Correspondence, genealogy charts, notes, family histories, and
other research material on the McColl family in Scotland and in
North and South Carolina. Included with the various family
members own notes and charts is a bound family history entitled
McColl Scottish Settlers. This volume traces the McColl families
in Marion and Marlboro Counties, S.C., from 1773 to 1966.
Folder 172 Correspondence (1846-1982)
173 Correspondence (1983-1992)
174 Research Materials (includes Acc. 99691)
175-177 Charts
178 McColl Scottish Settlers
179 Notes
Subseries 5.2. Drake Family
1831-1980s. About 100 items.
Correspondence, research notes, genealogy charts, family
histories, and other related documents on the Drake family of
South Carolina. This subseries also contains a manuscript volume
and typescript of a journal kept by Gabrielle Palmer Drake about
her daughter, Gabrielle Drake McColl. The journal begins in
February 1888 and continues through until August 1899. Gabrielle
Drake discussed her daughter's illnesses, her education, and
other changes through the years.
Folder 180-182
Subseries 5.3. Other Families
1870s-1980s. About 100 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Letters, genealogy charts, notes, family histories, and
related material on families related through marriage to either
the McColl or Drake families.
Folder 183 Bethea Family
184 Carroll/Pratt Families
185 Douglass Family
186 Evans Family
187 Guerry Family
188 Joye Family
189 Palmer Family
190 Pipkin Family
191 Spears Family
192 Spratt/Bratton Families
193 Thomas Families
194 Miscellaneous
Series 6. Other Papers
1865-1992 and undated. About 1,300 items.
Arrangement: topically.
Subseries 6.1. Education
1899-1957 and undated. About 75 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
School report cards, essays, assignments, and yearbooks for
various McColl family members. The earliest material in this
subseries are the yearbooks for Gabrielle Drake McColl from her
collegiate years at Converse College. There are also annuals
from Bailey Military Institute, the University of North Carolina,
and Bennettsville High School.
Folder 195 Elementary School 1912-1920; undated
196-197 High School 1920-1923; 1952 and undated
198-200 College 1923-1957
201 Yearbook, 1899
202 Yearbook, 1900
203 Yearbook, 1901
204 Yearbook, 1908
205 Yearbook, 1915
206 Yearbook, 1923
207 Yearbook, 1927
208 Yearbook, 1954
209 Yearbook, 1956
210 Scrapbook, undated
Subseries 6.2. Calendars and Day Books
1920-1966. 10 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Day books, diaries, and calendars primarily belonging
Gabrielle D. McColl. The diaries and day books kept by Gabrielle
D. McColl contain mostly entries about weather and gardening. On
occasion she did write about personal matters. On 18 April 1931,
she wrote "One week today!" remarking on the recent death of her
husband. On 26 February 1932, she wrote elated over the birth of
her first grandchild, Frances Carroll McColl, "Fran's darling
baby born at 5:04 in the afternoon....I am so happy this little
thing is here..." Hugh McColl (1905-1994) kept a travel diary on
his European trip in the summer of 1927. McColl left New York on
the Cunard line S.S. Tusania. he visited London, Edinburgh,
Paris, Marseille, Nice and Geneva. The diary has his comments on
the weather, the scenery, and the local people.
Folder 211 1920-Day Book
212 1926-Day Book
213 1927-Travel Diary
214 1928-Diary
215 1929-Diary
216 1930-Diary
217 1931-Diary
218 1932-Diary
219 1941-Calendar
220 1966-Calendar
Subseries 6.3. Awards and Certificates
1866-1983. About 35 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Civic awards, summer camp certificates, diplomas, and legal
credentials for various McColl family members.
Folder 221
Subseries 6.4. Newspapers, Clippings, and Magazines
1891-1992 and undated. About 1,200 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Newspapers, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and
magazines about the McColl family or topics of interest to the
McColls. The newspapers are primarily The Charlotte Observer,
The New York Times, the Marlboro Herald-Advocate, The News and
Courier (Charleston, S.C.), and school newspapers from the
University of North Carolina and Bailey Military Institute. Most
of the clippings come from these newspapers, as well. Most of
the magazines and their articles are on Hugh McColl (1935- ).
They include write-ups from Southern Living, Tar Heel Banker, and
Business North Carolina. In addition to articles about the
McColl family, this subseries contains an article on the sinking
of the Titanic (19 April 1912), many book reviews from The New
York Times Review of Books, and articles on World War II.
Folder 222 1891-1911
223 1912
224 1913-1915
225 1916-1919
226 1921-1922
227 1923
228 1924-1925
229 1926-1929
230 1931-1933
231 1934-1935
232 1936-1937
233 1938-1939
234 1940-November 1941
235 8-9 December 1941
236 10-31 December 1941
237 1942-1946
238 1950-1959
239 1960-March 1961
240 April-October 1961
241 1962-1969
242 1970-1972
243 1973-1976
244 1977
245 1978-1985
246 1989-1990
247 1991-1992
248-250 Undated
Series 6.5. Military Service Records
1865; 1941-1947; 1957-1960. About 20 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Civil War muster roll for the 21st South Carolina Infantry;
service papers for Hugh McColl (1905-1994) from the South
Carolina Defense Forces for 1941-1947; and paperwork involving
Hugh McColl's service in the Marine Corps, 1957-1960.
Folder 251
Series 7. Pictures
1875-1993 and undated. 222 items and 4 albums.
Subseries 7.1. Loose Prints
1875-1993 and undated.
P-4776/Folder 1 Bristow, A. A., 1 image, 1875.
P-4776/Folder 2 Carroll, Anne, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 3 Carroll, Edith (Mrs. James T.), 1
image, circa 1880s.
P-4776/Folder 4 Covington, Frances Carroll, 2 images, 1930s.
P-4776/Folder 5 Covington, Jennifer Carroll, 1 image, undated.
P-4773/Folder 6 Covington, Margaret McColl, 1 image,
22 March 1970.
P-4776/Folder 7 Delorme, Muvat? D., 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 8 Cutona, Cassandra McColl, 1 image, 29
October 1986
P-4766/Folder 9 Joye, Elvira Lewis, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 10 Kellum, Betty, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 11 Lockwood, Jane McColl, 2 imges, undated.
P-4776/Folder 12 McColl, Duncan Donald (1842-1911), 1
image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 13 McColl, Frances Carroll, 2 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 14 McColl, Gabrielle P. Drake, 5 images,
1898 and undated.
P-4776/Folder 15 McColl, Gabrielle P. Drake with
friends and family, 6 images, 1898-1899
and undated.
P-4776/Folder 16 McColl, Gabrielle, Hugh (1905-1994),
and Marjorie, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 17 McColl, Hugh L. (1874-1931), 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 18 McColl, Hugh L. (1905-1994), 3 images, 1906.
P-4776/Folder 19-20 McColl, Hugh L. (1905-1994), 15 images,
1910-1985 and undated (2 folders).
P-4776/Folder 21 McColl, Hugh L. (1935- ), 18 images,
1936-1950s and undated.
P-4776/Folder 22 McColl, Hugh L. (1935- ) with family
and friends, 25 images, 1936-1980s and undated.
P-4776/Folder 23 McColl, Hugh L. (1960- ) with friends
and family, 16 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 24 McColl, Hugh L. (1993- ) 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 25 McColl, James Carroll, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 26 McColl, Jane Spratt, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 27 McColl, John, 2 images, undated,
P-4776/Folder 28 McColl, Nellie Thomas, 2 images, 1888 and undated.
P-4776/Folder 29 McLaurin, Mary (Mrs. Daniel J.), 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 30 Midley, Elizabeth, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 31 Poster, Bobby, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 32 Pratt Family, 4 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 33 Ravenel Julia F. 1 image, 1887.
P-4776/Folder 34 Thomas, C. A., 1 image, 1900.
P-4776/Folder 35 Thomas, Maggie, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 36 Thomas, Martha, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 37 Tison, Ruth Boyd, 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 38 Wyche, F. P., Sr., 1 image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 39 Miscellaneous friends and relatives, 3
images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 40 Group photos, 5 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 41 Grave Markers, 9 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 42 Sigma Chi Fraternity House, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1
image, undated.
P-4776/Folder 43-45 Unidentified Individuals, 51 images, 1881,
1912, 1921, 1954 and undated.
P-4776/Folder 46 Unidentified Family Photos, 16 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 47 Unidentified Scenes, 11 images, undated.
P-4776/Folder 48 Negatives, 7 negatives, undated.
Subseries 7.2. Photo Albums
1875-1940s and undated.
PA-4776/1/Folder 49 Contains photographs dating from 1875 to
1908 of McLaurin, McLean, Wyche, Morrison,
11Currie, Bristow and other families
mainly from McColl and Greenville, S.C.
Also contains photographs of individual
family members.
PA-4776/2/Folder 50 Photographs of unidentified baby with
family members. Pictures of various
churches and houses. Also, church
bulletin dated October 1931.
PA-4776/3/Folder 51 Photographs of unknown locations, possibly
Mt. Vernon and other places further South.
PA-4776/4/Folder 52 Album has been disassembled for
preservation purposes. Photocopies
demonstrate album as it was, containing
photographs of friends and family at home
and on trips, as well as portraits of
individual family members. Mainly the
family of High Leon McColl (1905-1994).
MICROFILM REEL LIST
1 Series 1.1. Family correspondence, 1834-1939
RESTRICTED 2 Series 1.1. Family correspondence, 1940-1980
(Folders 23-34 withdrawn in January 2003)
RESTRICTED 3 Series 1.1. Family correspondence,
1981-1995 and undated
(Folders 23-34 withdrawn in January 2003)
Series 1.2. Postcards, 1903-1912
4 Series 1.2. Postcards, 1913-1979
5 Series 1.2. Postcards, 1980-1986 and undated
Series 2.1. Bank of Marlboro, 1866-1916
6 Series 2.1. Bank of Marlboro, 1917-1970
7 Series 2.1. Bank of Marlboro, 1971-1990 and undated
Series 2.2. Tax returns, 1913-1990
Series 2.3. Marlboro Trust Co., 1929-1965 and undated
Series 2.4. Family estates and finances
8 Series 2.4. Family estates and finances
9 Series 3.1. Writings by Gabrielle Drake McColl
Series 3.2. Writings by D. D. McColl
Series 3.3. Writings by other McColls
Series 4. Subject files, B-G
10 Series 4. Subject files, I-Po
11 Series 4. Subject files, Pr-W
Series 5.1. McColl family genealogy
12 Series 5.1. McColl family genealogy
Series 5.2. Drake family genealogy
Series 5.3. Other families genealogy
Series 6.1. Education
13 Series 6.1. Education
14 Series 6.1. Education
Series 6.2. Calendars and day books
15 Series 6.2. Calendars and day books
Series 6.3. Awards and certificates
Series 6.4. Newspapers, clippings, and magazines
16 Series 6.4. Newspapers, clippings, and magazines
Series 6.5. Military service
17 Series 7. Pictures