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[Identification of item], in the Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger Papers #4443, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Dr. and Mrs. George Burke Johnston, of Blacksburg, Va., and George Burke Johnston, Jr., of Lancaster, Ohio, in April and October 1986.

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• Burke, Mary Williams, 1782-1869.
• Families--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Johnston, George Mulholland, 1800-1834.
• Marion (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Real property--Southern States--History.
• Slavery--Southern States.
• Weissinger, Eliza Mary Bond, 1805-1875.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

• James Webb Papers (#760);
• Charles W. Johnston Papers (#2611);
• Miscellaneous Account Books (4049.26).

Mary Williams Burke was born in 1782, in Warren County, N.C., to Mary Freeman and Thomas Burke. She taught school in Hillsborough, N.C,, starting in 1810. In 1834, she moved with her niece, Eliza Mary Bond Johnston, to Greensboro, Ala. Burke and her niece later moved to Marion, Ala., where she continued teaching and tutoring until her death in 1869. She never married.

George Mulholland Johnston was born in 1800. Johnston was a merchant in Hillsborough with business connections throughout the state. In 1831 or 1832, he married Eliza Mary Bond. In August 1834, with his wife and her aunt, Mary Williams Burke, he moved to Greensboro, Ala., where he died in September.

Eliza Mary Bond was born to Frances Doherty and William Bond, in 1805. She attended school in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1821; otherwise, she spent most of her youth in Hillsborough. She moved to Greensboro, Ala., in 1834. Following the death of her husband, she moved with her son, George Doherty Johnston, and her aunt, Mary Burke, to Marion, Ala., where she later married Leonard Weissinger. Eliza Mary Bond Johnston Weissinger died in 1875.

(Adapted from a note in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, editor.)

The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other materials relating to Eliza Mary Bond Johnston Weissinger of Hillsborough, N.C., and her family. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Weissinger, her first husband George Mulholland Johnston, and her aunt Mary Williams Burke concerning family and personal matters; social affairs in Hillsborough, N.C., and Marion, Ala.; real estate; slaves; and finances.