This collection includes records related to the Croom Family especially the annual Croom Family Reunion held at the Croom Meeting House at Sandy Bottom Community on Highway 55 West in Lenoir County, North Carolina. Included are a 1930 photograph of the first Croom Family Reunion, programs, attendance sheets, minutes, obituaries, updated family charts, articles about the Reunion, and tombstone listings.
May 6, 2020, (unprocessed addition 7), 0.15 cubic feet; Material related to the Croom Family Reunion includes programs and minutes for 2015-2019 and program for 2012, copies of registration sheets for 2018 and 2019, and an original photograph of the 1st Croom Family Reunion in 1930 at Sandy Bottom, North Carolina. Also included are obituaries for family members and updates for the Henry Netwood Croom descendants, Cherry Ann Croom, James Percy Cauley and wife Martha Barwick Cauley descendants and for Frederick Whitaker Croom descendants. Donor: Martha G. Little Elmore
April 5, 2023, (unprocessed addition 8), 0.25 cubic feet; This addition includes Croom Family Reunion Programs (1934, 1953-1962, 1965-2004, 2006-2008, 2011-2013) in a binder, 2 Reunion Register Books (1966-1968, 1971-1997), and minutes for 2007, 2008, and 2010. Donor: William E. "Mickey" Elmore for Giles and Marlene Dail
July 23, 2024, (unprocessed addition 9), 0.50 cubic feet; Croom Reunion Meeting minutes (1932-1941, 1947, 1949-1964), In Memoriam pages, lists of Reunion attendees names, programs (1956-1958, 1960-1962, 1965, 1969-1971), and notes indicating that no minutes were kept for the first two Reunions (1930, 1931) and that no Reunions were held during the war years (1942-1946). Also included are correspondence, Croom Family Book (by Doris Outlaw Croom) 1997 Supplement by Eleanor Fordham Cash and other family information, Resolution and Declaration of Trust (1972) for setting up a savings account for the Reunion, and 1972 correspondence related to an interpretation of the 1964 deed from the Contentnea Association of the Primitive Baptist Church Trustees to the Trustees of the Croom Family Reunion Association of Sandy Bottom of Lenoir County, North Carolina. Donor: William E. "Mickey" Elmore for Giles and Marlene Dail
July 25, 2024, (unprocessed addition 10), 0.15 cubic feet; Addition includes material (2016-2024) related to the Croom Family Reunion held at Croom Meeting House at Sandy Bottom in Lenoir Co., N.C. Included are minutes, and copies of attendance book sheets related to the 2022 and 2023 reunions. Additional items related to the Croom family are obituaries (2016-2024), a clipping regarding the 50th wedding anniversary of William Felix Croom, Jr., and his wife Nicole Croom Croom (2012), a clipping regarding an historic architecture evaluation of the Croom Meeting House as regards Hiway 70 Kinston Bypass, and a supplement to the Croom Family Book. Gift of Martha G. Little Elmore
Gift of William E. "Mickey" Elmore
Gift of Martha G. Little Elmore
Encoded by Mark Custer, January 2, 2008
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