Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill

#4885-z
WATKINS FAMILY PAPERS
Inventory

Abstract:          Watkins family of Caswell County, N.C.,
           including farmers Daniel Gunn Watkins (1857-1937) and
           Lydia Ann Powell Watkins (1865-1960) and their
           daughter, Mabel A. Watkins (1903- ), an Army nurse
           before and during World War II.
                   Genealogical records of the Watkins and
           Powell families; items collected by Major Mabel A.
           Watkins, when she was an Army nurse at the 1st Army
           Evacuation Hospital and other hospitals in the South
           Pacific before and during World War II; an autograph
           book belonging to Lydia Powell, 1880; and photographs
           of Watkins family members, including travel pictures.
           Most of the genealogical information was collected by
           Wilbur Watkins (1886-1975), son of Daniel and Lydia
           Watkins.

Online Catalog Terms:
     Caswell County (N.C.)--History.
     Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
     North Carolina--Genealogy.
     Powell family.
     United States. Army Nurse Corps.
     United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 1st--History.
     United States. Army--Nurses.
     Watkins family.
     Watkins, Daniel Gunn, 1857-1937.
     Watkins, Lydia Ann Powell, 1865-1960.
     Watkins, Mabel A., 1903- .
     Watkins, Wilbur, 1886-1975.
     World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.

Size:      About 100 items.

Date Span: 1852-1985.

Provenance: Received from Daniel Watkins Patterson of Chapel
            Hill, N.C., in July 1997 (Acc. 97101).

Access:        No restrictions.

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

                           FOLDER LIST

Folder 1   Genealogy and Family Histories. Included are a typed
           genealogical materials of the Watkins and related families
           (Powell, Woodson, Dupuy, and Gunn) with a brief introduction
           about information sources; photocopies of labeled photographs of
           ancestors; writings about the Huguenot line of the family and
           the family’s relations with American Indians; Wilbur Watkins’s
           second-hand account of Chicken Stevens, who was assassinated by
           the Ku Klux Klan in 1870; and lists of family members and
           name origins. Also included are lists of marriage dates, copies
           of memorial speeches, family trees, and Mabel Watkins’s personal
           and family history.

Folder 2   Lydia Powell Watkins autograph book, 1880.

Folder 3   Army and Navy hospital memorabilia. Mabel Watkins’s
           collection of hospital directories and histories. Included are a
           1927 Student Nurse Annual; a World War II First Evacuation
           Hospital directory; Army and Navy hospital directories and
           annuals, 1947 and 1949-1950; and a booklet outlining the
           history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.

P-4885/1    Photographs of military personnel, hospitals, people, and
            scenes in Augusta, Ga.; New Guinea; Rockhampton, Australia; the
            Philippines; and Guam.

P-4885/2    Family photographs and images of the family homes and church.

SF-P-4885/1 Tintype of Susan Ann Watkins, 1852.