Nina Whitaker Beavans Collection

1821-2003
Manuscript Collection #1339
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Beavans, Nina Whitaker
Physical description
7 Cubic Feet, six document cases, one half document case, six flat boxes, two shoe boxes, and two record boxes, consisting of legal records, maps, family trees, correspondence, clippings, genealogical notes, photographs, store accounts ledgers, artifacts, drawings and articles
Preferred Citation
Nina Whitaker Beavans Collection (#1339), 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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Included are family and historical documents such as legal records, maps, family trees, correspondence, clippings, genealogical notes, and photographs, and artifacts from or pertaining to Enfield (Halifax County), North Carolina, Whitaker, Vinson, Harris, and Beavans families. Also included are drawings and articles related to The Holme (ancestral home of the Whitakers in England), information about Whitaker's Chapel, the writings of John W. McGwigan (author of weekly column "Ramblin" in the Enfield Progress), and William H. "Bill" Mann, Jr.'s work on the history of Enfield.

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October 3, 2019, (unprocessed) 7.0 cubic feet; Included are family and historical documents such as legal records, maps, family trees, correspondence, clippings, genealogical notes, and photographs, and artifacts from or pertaining to Enfield (Halifax County), North Carolina, Whitaker, Vinson, Harris, and Beavans families. Also included are drawings and articles related to The Holme (ancestral home of the Whitakers in England), information about Whitaker's Chapel, the writings of John W. McGwigan (author of weekly column "Ramblin" in the Enfield Progress), and William H. "Bill" Mann, Jr.'s work on the history of Enfield. Gift of Anna Dougherty.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Anna Dougherty

Copyright notice

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

Container list
Box 1 Folder a Genealogy
Box 1 Folder b Beavans Will
Box 1 Folder c Genealogy
Box 1 Folder d Civil War Diary
Box 1 Folder e Genealogy and Bible Records
Box 1 Folder f Genealogy
Box 1 Folder g Photographs
Box 1 Folder h Correspondence, 1836-1918
Box 1 Folder i Genealogy
Box 1 Folder j Correspondence, 1882-1976
Box 1 Folder k Photographs
Box 1 Folder l Photographs
Box 2 Folder a "Old Enfield Papers"
Box 2 Folder b Clippings
Box 2 Folder c Accounts, 1909-1925, 1945
Box 2 Folder d Photograph and Negatives
Box 2 Folder e Accounts, 1893-1914
Box 2 Folder f Deeds, Letter, 1869, 1925-1961
Box 2 Folder g Indentures and Survey, 1903-1956
Box 2 Folder h Magazines, 1869, 1901, 1949
Box 3 Folder a Genealogy
Box 3 Folder b Clippings
Box 3 Folder c Photographs
Box 3 Folder d Photographs
Box 3 Folder e Photographs
Box 3 Folder f Photographs
Box 3 Folder g Whitaker's Chapel
Box 3 Folder h Advertising Artifact
Box 3 Folder i Genealogy
Box 3 Folder j Genealogy
Box 3 Folder k Genealogy and Bible Records
Box 4 Folder a Photographs of Beavans Drug Store, 1960-1985, undated
Box 4 Folder b Negatives
Box 4 Folder c Photographs
Box 4 Folder d Postcards
Box 4 Folder e ECTC, 1929-1930
Box 4 Folder f Enfield High School, 1939, 1989
Box 4 Folder g Bicentennial Celebration, 1975
Box 4 Folder h Enfield Newspapers
Box 4 Folder i Enfield Study Club, 1979-2016
Box 4 Folder j Enfield Peanut Festival, 1987
Box 4 Folder k Old Homes in Enfield, 2008
Box 4 Folder l Enfield Church Directory, 1995
Box 4 Folder m Miscellany
Box 5 Folder a Nina W. Beavans-related Items
Box 5 Folder b W. E. Beavans Drug Store-related Items
Box 5 Folder c Cool Springs Battlefield, 1979-1982
Box 5 Folder d Deeds, 1904, 1931
Box 5 Folder e W. E. Beavans and wife Ferdie Clark Beavans Family-related Items, 1897-2004
Box 5 Folder f Homemade Children's Book
Box 5 Folder g Whitaker Genealogy
Box 5 Folder h Whitaker Genealogy
Box 5 Folder i Halifax County Writer's Camp, 1992
Box 5 Folder j Postcards and Magazine
Box 6 Newspaper Clippings
Box 7 Advertising Artifacts
Box 8 Photograph Album, Photographs, New Testament
Box 9 Photograph Album, Account Book, Postcard Album
Box 10 Diploma and Yearbooks, 1909-1943
Box 11 Bible, 1821
Box 12 Account Book, 1922-1947
Box 13 Bibles, 1897-1901
Oversize Folder os1 Newspaper and Clippings, Publication, 1911-1956
Oversize Folder os2 Newspapers, 1976-1979
Oversize Folder os3 Newspapers, Clippings, Publication, Certificate, Poster and other items, late 1890's-1976

Certificate re contributing to the Columbian Sunday School Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; photocopy of 1792 document appointing John Whitaker as Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No. 4 in the District of N.C.; photocopies of a list of Whitaker plats; damaged poster for outdoor drama First for Freedom (Halifax, N.C.); Sept. 1900 Special Autumn Fashion Number for The Ladies Home Journal; Historic Halifax Week Program (1976); Sept. 12, 1947 issue, April 29 and May 6, 1976 (Bicentennial) issues and Oct. 28, 1976 issue (last one published) of Enfield Progress newspaper; and clippings

Oversize Folder os4 Genealogy Charts for Harris, Hunter, and Lewis families. Charts for Descent of Enfield Lands by Wm. M. Mann, Jr., Sept. 1975.