Jane Gregory Marrow Family Papers

1845-1992, undated
Manuscript Collection #652
Creator(s)
Marrow, Jane Gregory, 1916-2006
Physical description
0.22 Cubic Feet, 55 items
Preferred Citation
Jane Gregory Marrow Family Papers (#652), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
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Papers (1845-1992, undated) including correspondence, genealogical information, photographs, a water color, clippings, a doctor's journal, a recipe book and miscellaneous.


Biographical/historical information

Lucy Jane Gregory Marrow was born in China (1916) where her father, Richard Henry Gregory (1876-1955), worked for the American Tobacco Company. Marrow returned to North Carolina with her mother, Harriet Arrington Gregory (1878-1960) to attend college (1934).


Scope and arrangement

The collection includes correspondence, genealogical information, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to different branches of Marrow's family. The Arrington, Philips, and Battle family records are comprised of a typescript family history that includes a description of Nashville, NC (p. 16) as well as genealogical information.

The McNeill family information contains detailed reminiscences (1900) about the Civil War including battles at Sharpsburg, MD, in 1862 (pp. 17-18), Harper's Ferry, WVA, and the taking of 13,000 Union prisoners in 1862 (p. 17), Fredericksburg, VA, in 1862 (pp. 18-19), and "Dimry's" (Drewry's) Bluff, VA, in 1864 (pp. 19-21). Also described are the formation of Company G of the 24th North Carolina Regiment (pp. 15-16) and the foraging for supplies (January-April 1864?) in Greenville, NC (pp. 21-22). Throughout these records, McNeill family connections are discussed, and a watercolor of the Philadelphus Presbyterian Church in Robeson County, NC, is included.

The Marrow family records are comprised of correspondence (September 26, 1887; May 23-June 3, 1992) concerning the return of a sword in 1887 taken from an officer of the 16th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers at Plymouth, NC, during the Civil War, and correspondence concerning the sale of the family farm in North Carolina and Virginia (March 5-June 9, 1975; November 18, 1986-August 6, 1989). Also included are photographs and clippings concerning the Civil War sword, a typescript list of the family's land holdings (1758-1812), genealogical information, and family photographs.

The journal of Dr. J. J. Philips of Edgecombe County, NC, details the accounts and treatments of his patients (1845). Interesting entries throughout the journal concern the medical treatment of enslaved persons; medicines prescribed, including quinine, castor oil, peppermint, calomel, digitalis, iodine, morphine, gonorrhea salts, paregoric, and many others; procedures performed including tooth extraction (p. 9) and a foot operation (p. 68); physician consultations (pp. 55, 128, 152, 174); and the prices charged. On the inside back cover of the ledger a list of enslaved persons names and their monetary value based on the opinions of their enslavers (August 28, 1852). Finally, a cookbook belonging to Lucie Gregory contains numerous recipes for such things as hog's foot jelly and squirrel barbecue, as well as home remedies for various ailments.

A miscellaneous folder includes correspondence from insurance companies, more patient entries (1858-1880), a legal document indicating that F. W. Hughes bought land in Craven County (1888); a bill for board at, and a telephone company bill and gas light company bills for the Hotel Chattawka (1899-1901); and a note (1907) that a house was being finished for Dr. F. W. Hughes in Black Mountain, Henderson County, N.C.


Administrative information
Custodial History

August 19, 1993, 27 items; Papers of Philips, Gregory, McNeill, and Marrow families, including Dr. J. J. Philips account book (1845-1848), Lucie Brodie Gregory recipe book, history of McNeill family, correspondence, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous. Gift of Dr. Jane G. Marrow, Tarboro, NC.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Dr. Jane G. Marrow

Processing information

Processed by J. Smalley; M. Boccaccio; A. Merriman, November 1999

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Related material

Jane Gregory Marrow Oral History Interview

North Carolina Council: Jane Gregory Marrow Oral History Interview

Richard Henry Gregory Papers

Hattie A. Gregory Papers


Key terms
Personal Names
Philips, J. J.
Family Names
Arrington family
Battle family
Marrow family
McNeill family
Philips family
Corporate Names
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company G
Topical
Medicine, Rural--North Carolina--Edgecombe County
Physicians--North Carolina--Edgecombe County
Places
North Carolina--Genealogy
North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives