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[Identification of item], in the William C. Russell Papers #3622-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Mrs. Robert H. Williamson of Fayetteville, N.C., in November 1960 and March 1963.

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• Arkansas--Social life and customs.
• Families--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Granville County (N.C.)--History.
• Heflin family.
• Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Russell family.
• Russell, William C.
• Slavery--North Carolina--Granville County.
• Webb family.
• Webb, William James.

• Webb Family Papers (#1900); James A. Russell Papers (#646).

William C. Russell was the son of James A. Russell, physician, of Granville County, N.C., and Lucy A. Heflin Russell. His brothers and sisters included: Kate Russell, who married James H. Webb of Tally Ho, N.C.; Robert Russell, who married Rebecca Lipscombe of Durham County, N.C.; John Russell, who married Emma Harris of St. Louis, Mo.; Harriet Russell, who married J. T. Booth of Granville County; Susan Russell, who married Joseph A. Webb of Oxford, N.C.; and Charles L. Russell, who married in Oklahoma.

This collection consists of more than ninety letters, 1871-1894, received by William C. Russell from his mother; sisters, Kate, Hattie, and Sue; brother, Bob; friends; and cousins. During the 1870s, Russell was living at Sardis, Miss., but, by 1887, he was living in Petersburg, Va., where he married Mrs. Anne Love. His mother lived at Tally Ho and his three sisters also lived in Granville County. There are additional undated letters apparently from this same period. Also included are an indenture, 1813, of John C. Russell, and genealogical data, copies of wills, and slave information in "The Russells, the Heflins, and the Webbs of Granville County, N.C." by William James Webb of Oxford, N.C., written in April 1935.