Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten Papers

1833-1986
Manuscript Collection #954
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Wooten, Elizabeth H. Wade
Physical description
1.45 Cubic Feet, 6 containers, consisting of correspondence, clippings, ephemera, financial records, maps, newspapers, photographic prints, printed materials and scrapbook materials, postcards, and a photograph album
Preferred Citation
Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten Papers (#954), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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Papers (1833-1986) compiled by Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten, the wife of noted Greenville, NC, Democratic Party political leader Frank M. Wooten, Sr. Materials include correspondence, clippings, ephemera, financial records, maps, newspapers, photographic prints, photograph album, printed materials and scrapbook materials related to her education, friends, family, travels, and social interests.

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Custodial History

October 13, 2003, (unprocessed) 322 items, 1.45 cubic feet; Papers (1833-1986) compiled by the wife of a noted Greenville, NC Democratic Party political leader including correspondence, clippings, ephemera, financial records, maps, newspapers, photographic prints, printed materials and scrapbook materials related to her education, friends, family, travels, and social interests. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Frank M. Wooten, Jr. by William I. Wooten, Executor

October 18, 2017, (unprocessed), 1.0 cubic feet; Insurance policy (1866) for John N. Schmidt of Charlotte Co., VA; correspondence and postcards (1906-1920s often from Pettigrew and Wade families in Farmville, VA; 1950s European trip); baby book for daughter Elizabeth Wade Wooten (born October 10, 1913) and a clipping related to son Wade Wooten at age six; and a photograph album (ca. 1900) possibly related to the Wade family in Farmville, VA. Gift of Dr. William I. Wooten III and Dr. Erin Wooten

Source of acquisition

Gift of Frank M. Wooten, Jr., estate

Gift of Dr. William I. Wooten III and Dr. Erin Wooten

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Encoded by Mark Custer, March 17, 2008 Reprocessed by Madison Howlett, January 2025

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

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Key terms
Personal Names
Wooten, Elizabeth H. Wade
Wooten, Frank M. (Frank Marion), 1875-1941
Wooten, Frank M. (Frank Marion), 1916-
Family Names
Wade family
Wooten family
Container list
Box 1 Folder a.1 Elizabeth Hampton Wade. Geography notebook [ca. 1905-1911] 1 item. 45 p
Box 1 Folder a.2 Elizabeth Hampton Wade. Futurity Book [5/22-7/19/1905] consisting of farewell remarks by her schoolmates upon her graduation from Farmville (VA) Normal School and a record of her move to Knoxville, TN with two friends, Maud Marshall Anderson and Elizabeth Harriet Richardson, to teach in a model school. 1 item. 45 p
Box 1 Folder b Elizabeth Woodson Wilburn (1793-1833) biographical note, c. 1833. 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder c John Woodson genealogy (undated). 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder d Frank Wooten, Jr. English 111 Notebook (1936) 1 item. 68 p
Box 1 Folder e Clippings (1947-1962, undated) 23 items. 23 p
Box 1 Folder f Clippings; National politics (1972-1973) 13 items. 13 p
Box 1 Folder h Ephemera: Letterhead (undated) 7 items. 7 p
Box 1 Folder i Financial records (1950-1975) 9 items. 9 p
Box 1 Folder j Maps: New England Tour Map (ca. 1940) 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder k Maps: Relief - Panorama of the Rhine from Mainz to Koln, Honsch & Bechstedt, Koln-Ehrenfeld (undated) 1 item. 12 p
Box 1 Folder l Mount Airy Club (1927-1967, undated) 7 items. 8 p
Box 1 Folder m Newspapers: The Greenville Observer (Greenville, NC), v. 1, no. 10 (5/20/1975) 1 item. 4 p
Box 1 Folder n Newspapers: The Think Tank (Atlanta, Ga, 1943) 3 items. 6 p
Box 1 Folder o Photographic prints (undated) 9 items. 28 p
Box 1 Folder p Photographic prints: Thomas J. Jarvis, Greenville, NC (ca. 1890's) 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder q Photographic prints: Mount Airy Club (undated) 2 items. 2 p
Box 1 Folder r Postcards (Blank) (undated) 15 items. 15 p
Box 2 Folder a Correspondence: Frank M. Wooten (Mr. & Mrs.) (1886-1975) 39 items. 61 p
Box 2 Folder b Correspondence: Frank M. Wooten (Mr. & Mrs.) (1871-1986) 74 items. 85 p
Box 2 Folder c Letter drafts notebook (ca. 1940s) 1 item. 17 p
Box 2 Folder d Notes (undated) 59 items. 68 p
Box 3 Folder a Farmville Presbyterian Church Program.(4/27/1975). 1 item. 5 p
Box 3 Folder b A Service in memory of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr: An American Soldier, 1917-1919, 1941-1944. Died in Normandy, July 12, 1944. Christ Church, Oyster Bay, NY July 24, 1944. 1 item. 6 p
Box 3 Folder c Programme of Conducted Sight-Seeing Tours. (London: Evan Evans' Tours, undated) 1 item. 2 p
Box 3 Folder d The Life that Wins, an address (revised) . . . by Charles Gallaudet Trumbull efore the National Convention of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America, 1911. . . . (Philadelphia,PA: The Sunday School Times, Co., 62nd printing, April 1945) 1 item. 19 p
Box 3 Folder e Guide to the Cathedral of Mexico, B. M. Gomez (Imp. Manuel Leon Sanches. M. R. del T. de Lazarin Num. 7. Meico, D. F., undated) 1 item. 32 p
Box 3 Folder f Souvenir View Album Thousand Islands, Canada: Exclusive Views along the Majestic St. Lawrence River. Done in genuine photogravure. Etching by Raoul Pellissier (undated) 1 item. 16 p
Box 3 Folder g Opera Nacional Argumento y Programa Temporada, 1952: Palacia de Bellas Artes (Lucia dde Lammermoor) Spanish language. (Mexico, 1952) 1 item. 44 p
Box 3 Folder h Meissner & Buch Facsimiles. New Publications. (New York: Rudopf Lesch Fine Arts, Inc., undated) pp. 91-108. 1 item. 17 p
Box 3 Folder i A Book of Bedtime Stories, by Grace Perkins. Little Blue Book No. 1040, edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., (1926) 1 item. 64 p
Box 3 Folder j What Every Boy Should Know, by William J. Fielding. Little Blue Book No. 653, Vol I. Rational Sex Series, edited by E. Haldeman-Julius.(Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., (c. 1934) 1 item. 64 p
Box 3 Folder k Historical Tour of the City of Quebec / Tour Historique de la Cite de Quebec: Album-Souvenir French and English language. (Quebec: Quebec Advertising Agency, 1948) 1 item. 44p
Box 3 Folder l La Gaspesie, By Tourist Branch, Provincial Publicity Bureau 4th edition.French and English language. (Quebec, c.1950) 1 item. 16 p
Box 3 Folder m Souvenir View Book of Quebec: A Dominion Series View Book. Colorchorme Views.(Toronto, Canada: The Photogelatine Engraving Co., c. 1950) 1 item. 17 p
Box 3 Folder n Mexico en Color. Spanish language. (n.p., undated) 1 item. 22 p
Box 3 Folder o Keep on Thinking and Praying: A recorded transcription of a sermon by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale delivered at Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Ave. at 29th Street, New York. (Pawling, NY: Foundation fo Christian Living, c. 1966) 1 item. 12 p
Box 3 Folder p Sans Souci Book Club Year Book 1939-1940 (Greenville, NC, 1939) 1 item. 12 p
Box 3 Folder q The Tower of London. Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings: Ministry of Works (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1947) 1 item.19 p
Box 3 Folder r Fledermaus. The New Orleans Opera House Association. Season 1951-1952. Municipal Auditorium. 1 item. 24 p
Box 3 Folder s American History Illustrated. Vol 7, no. 3 (June 1972) (Gettysbsurg, PA: The National Historical Society, 1972) 1 item. 52 p
Box 3 Folder t The American Magazine, Vol 113, no. 5 (May 1932) (New York, NY: Crowell Publishing Co., 1932) 1 item. 154 p
Box 3 Folder u Carolina Telephone: Greenville, Ayden, Farmville, Fountain, Snow Hill, N.C. Effective August 27, 1969. (Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co., c 1969) 1 item. 206 p
Box 4 Folder a Hymnal According to the us of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Revised Edition (Oxford: Printed at the University Press for Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York, 1878) 440 p
Box 4 Folder b My Sunday Missal Explained, Authorized new translation from New Testament, . . . , by Rev. Joseph F Stedman (Brooklyn, NY: Confraternity of the Precious Blood, [1942] 1 item. 352 p
Box 4 Folder c Points for Emphasis: A Vest Pocket Commentary on the International Sunday School Lessons, Improved Uniform Series, for 1941, by Hight C. Moore. 24th annual volume. (Nashville, TN: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Confention, 1941) 1 item 194 p
Box 4 Folder d Follow On! The story of how in the Church and Early Disciples revealed in Acts their joyful companionship with the Living Christ.. . . . (Cincinnati, OH: Forwar Movement of the Episcopal Church, 1935) 1 item. 88 p
Box 4 Folder e English - French Francais - Anglais Modern Dictionary with the war terms, by F. Craps. (Brussels: Nossent, undated) 1 item. 160 p
Box 4 Folder f Cradle of the Colony: The History of Chowan County and Edenton, North Carolina, by Dr. Thomas C. Parramore (Edenton, NC: Edenton Chamber of Commerce, 1967) 1 item. 92 p
Box 4 Folder g Family Fare Food Management and Recipes. Prepared by Human Nutrition Research Division and Consumer and Food Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service. Home and Garden Bulletin No. 1 U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, rev. May 1960) 1 item. 96 p
Box 4 Folder h Castles on the Rine: The Rhinelander Collection. 39 illustrated plates with an introduction by M. J. Mehs. New edition prepared by Dr. Walther Ottendorf-Simrock (Bonn: Wilhelm Stollfuss, 3rd edition, undated) 1 item. 74 p
Box 4 Folder i Ricordo di Firenze 32 vedute Ed eStampa Stab. Graffico Cesare Capello (Milano, undated) Italian language. 1 item. 32 p
Box 4 Folder j How to Visit the Beauties of Rome: Practical Illustrated and Coloured Guide. Bonechi - ed. Il Turismo, Firenze, Italy, undated) Italian language. 1 item 239 p
Box 4 Folder k Florence: in 110 Kodak-Color Photographs: Practical Guide with a Plan of the City: Bonechi 1970-71 Guide. New Edition Useful Information. (Firenze: Bonechi Editore, c. 1970), 1 item. 128 p
Box 4 Folder l Travel Scrapbook: Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, ca. 1956. 82 loose photographic print & 4 scrapbook pages. 2 items. 87 p
Box 5 Folder a Photo album of Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten's Family in Farmville, VA, circa. 1900
Box 5 Folder b Correspondence to Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten, circa. 1900s, bulk 1905-1996, some undated material
Box 5 Folder c Correspondences to the Wootens, Poem written by Bessie Wooten, and art of the Wootens, undated material
Box 5 Folder d Post Cards sent to Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten, Collegiate Certificate of Teaching Completion given to Elizabeth, 1905-1908
Box 5 Folder e Correspondences to Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten, bulk:1908-1975, undated material
Box 5 Folder f Correspondences to relatives of Elizabeth "Bessie" Hampton Wade Wooten, bulk: 1929-1971, some undated materials