Inventory of the Emma Maria Service Papers, 1803-1892
Collection Number 3375
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Service, Emma Maria.
- Title
- Emma Maria Service Papers, 1803-1892 (bulk 1849-1888).
- Call Number
- 3375
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 400 items (1.0 linear foot).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Emma Maria Service Papers, #3375, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Africa, West--History--To 1884.
- College students--Kentucky--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Commission merchants--Georgia--History--19th century.
- Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
- Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
- Georgetown College (Georgetown, Ky.)--Students--History--19th century.
- Hinds County (Miss.)--History--19th century.
- Hinds County (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
- Liberia--History--1847-1944.
- Missionaries--Africa, West--History--19th century.
- Montpelier Female Institute (Macon, Ga.)
- Payne, John, 1815-1874.
- Service family.
- Service, Emma Maria.
- Service, John Hugh James.
- Service, Martha Stackhouse Williford.
- Stackhouse family.
- Stackhouse, Samuel H.
- Teachers--Georgia--History--19th century.
- Wilford family.
- Williford, Martha.
- Williford, William S.
- Women missionaries--Africa--History--19th century.
- Women teachers--Georgia--History--19th century.
- Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.
Related Material
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George F. Palmes Papers (#3769), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Overview
Family correspondence, chiefly 1849-1888, of Emma Maria Service of Augusta, Ga., and her parents, John Hugh James Service and Martha Stackhouse Williford Service, and their children from previous marriages, including William S. Williford, commission merchant at Macon, Ga., and Martha Williford, teacher at Montpelier Institute near Macon and missionary, 1850-1874, in West Africa (at least partly in Liberia) under Episcopal Bishop John Payne, whom she married; and letters from members of the Stackhouse family of Hinds County, Miss. Correspondence concerns William Williford's business in Macon; Martha Williford's work as teacher and as missionary; life in Hinds County, especially during the Civil War; Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky., where Samuel H. Stackhouse was a student, 1860-1861; family activities; and other matters.