This collection contains genealogical files belonging to avid genealogist Sylvia Corey (July 10, 1925–November 9, 2020) of Greenville, N.C. Included are files related mainly to the Corey (of Martin County) and Leggett (of Beaufort County) families, but also to the Gorham, Baker, Davis, Whitmell, and Wynne families among many others. Some files are related to her work with the Pitt County Family Researchers group. Also contains a zip file of born-digital genealogy material created using "Reunion" software.
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November 5, 2021 (unprocessed), 10.35 cubic feet; This collection contains genealogical files belonging to avid genealogist Sylvia Corey (July 10, 1925–November 9, 2020) of Greenville, N.C. Included are files related mainly to the Corey (of Martin County) and Leggett (of Beaufort County) families, but also to the Gorham, Baker, Davis, Whitmell, and Wynne families among many others. Some files are related to her work with the Pitt County Family Researchers group. Approximately 9 cubic feet. An additional 3 cubic feet of related published histories were added to the North Carolina Collection in Joyner Library. Gift of Lessie Corey Johnson. August 2021: Zip file of born-digital information created using "Reunion" software.
Source of acquisition
Gift of Lessie Corey Johnson
Processing information
Container list completed May 2022 by Matt Lowe.
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Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Container list
Box 1
Photograph of Sylvia Corey, Miami Florida, 1964; Corey family pedigree chart; "Our Pitt County Roots" by Rachel Sylvia Corey, 2004; Register report of first generation immigrant, John Gray Leggett; letter related to John Gray Leggett; Copies of Corey family birth certificates, death certificate and marriage licenses; Copies and notes of Martin County deeds; Documents related to Leggett-Gorham family reunion, 2002; Copies of John Churchill Gorham Civil War records; Documents related to James Davis; "History of the Church of God" by Jeremiah Leggett; Documents related to Mayflower descendants and North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution; "James Corey and Susan Mulford" Copy; Corey family DNA documents; Corey Family Society documents and newsletters; Leggett family chronology and legal documents; Bill Hart Leggett family notes; Northern Pitt County cemeteries (includes Gray Corey) notes by Annette Roebuck; Pitt County, NC, Compendium by Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross/Roger Kammerer; Oak Grove Church Minutes, 1834-1876; Copies of Beaufort County estate records, John A Leggett, 1868 records; Jeremiah Leggett, 1840; Noah Leggett, 1898; William Leggett, 1860; Benjamin F. Leggett, 1893; Whitmel Leggett, 1885; Murphey Leggett, 1860; Josephus Leggett, 1900; Gorham family estate document copies; John A. Leggett, 1868; Henry Leggett, 1871.
Box 2
Corey and related families chronological notes; Register report and descendant reports for William (Will) Clare (Cleare); Corey family notes, volumes 1 and 2.
Box 3
Whitmel and Wynne family notes; Leggett family notes volume 1, 2; Rabson/Roberson and Stallings family notes.
Box 4
Pitt County Historical Society (Corey family articles to appear in Pitt County Chronicles Vol II); Gorham family records; Notes on Cape Cod/Mayflower, Howland and Gorham family notes; Davis family (Curruthers, McClure) family notes; and Gorham family notes.
Box 5
Copy of family records of Henry Corey's Children; Miscellaneous Corey family notes and documents; Sylvia Corey/Personal Mayflower documentation; Baker family legal records; Hardison, Hodges, Perry, Taylor family documents; and Baker, Blount, Brown, Bush, Driver, and Guggan family notes.
Box 6
Davis family genealogy notes; Civil War-NC 2nd Cavalry History (John Gray Leggett); Census vol. 1, 1785-1840 notes; Census vol. 2, 1850-1930 notes; 1607-1850 various NC county census; Map of NC counties; Photograph of John Lloyd Corey; 2 drawings done by Roger Kammerer in 1993 of the home of J. Lloyd and Lina Corey as it looked ca. 1935; and print in frame of Stokes High School used from 1927 to 1976.
Box 7
Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly (Excerpts); photographs (with some children identified) of classes at Stokes High School including 2nd grade (1932-1933), 5th grade (1936-1937), and 6th grade (1937-1938); Mayflower history (Caleb Johnson); Miscellaneous research; and volumes I and II (indexed) of Sylvia Corey's photocopies of items from publications.
Box 8
Church of Latter Day Saints History documents; NC early county-level records in genealogy research (book 1), NC records in genealogy research-an intermediate course (book 2); Miscellaneous history; Miscellaneous Virginia records; Documents related to Greenville Ward LDS Family History Center; The Lost Colony documents; Society of Mayflower Descendants year 2000 yearbook; research/references; and books 1 and 2 (May 2014) of ReunionTalk discussion group related to genealogy software Reunion 10 for Macintosh computers.
Box 9
Franklin Delano Roosevelt scrapbook with newspaper articles and photographs related to his death.
Oversize Folder os1
Leggett/Gorham pedigree chart; Corey/Roberson pedigree chart; Rachel Sylvia Corey large sketchpad with family genealogy presentation notes; Printouts and notes related to Rachel Sylvia Corey's Mayflower's crossing of the Atlantic presentation.
Box 10
Jeremiah Leggett and Clare Brown Driver Gorham Pedigree trees.