McCall-Wade Family Papers
1860-1870s
Manuscript Collection #181- Creator(s)
- McCall family; Wade family
- Physical description
- 0.25 Cubic Feet, 19 items , consisting of memoir, scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.
- Preferred Citation
- McCall-Wade Family Papers (#181), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- ECU Manuscript Collection
- Access
- No restrictions
Papers (1860-1870s, undated) consisting of memoir, comments, physical plan, scrapbook, advertisements, newspapers clippings.
Biographical/historical information
Annie Elizabeth Wade Miller was born in Blackshear, Georgia, September 17, 1864. She was the seventh child of Edward Clemens Wade and Sarah Elizabeth Erwin Wade out of ten children. Annie was married to Judge Thomas Fayette Miller of the Municipal Court, Washington DC and they had three children together, Elizabeth Erwin Miller Lobingier, Julian Howell Miller, and Charles Wade Miller. She wrote a group of stories that became the book Pioneering in Quitman, GA.
Scope and arrangement
The typescript memoir entitled Pioneering, in Quitman, Georgia, consists of the recollection of Annie Elizabeth Miller's childhood years in Quitman, during the Reconstruction era. The author describes the typical diet of the average town citizen, the effects of the Civil War on local food supply, and social activities such as square dancing. In addition Miller describes clothing and dress styles of the period for women.
She describes the typical school day of the average Quitman child and comments on subjects taught, school lunches, and recess recreation activities such as baseball and stickfrog. In addition, the memoir includes a detailed account of the physical plan and furnishing of the school building.
The scrapbook contains health-related newspaper clippings (1860-1865), consisting of advertisements for new health cures and medicines to fight such diseases as cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, jaundice, apoplexy, and kidney disease.
Administrative information
Custodial History
Source of acquisition
Gift of Mrs. James Wilkinson, Jr
Processing information
Processed by M. Terry, March 1979
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.
Metadata Rights Declaration
Key terms
Personal Names
Miller, Annie ElizabethFamily Names
McCall familyWade family
Topical
Patent medicines--History--19th centuryPublic schools--Georgia--Quitman--History--19th century
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia--Quitman
Women's clothing--Georgia--Quitman--History--19th century