Martha Mewborn Marble Collection

1768-2001
Manuscript Collection #683
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Creator(s)
Marble, Martha Mewborn; Rouse, Egbert Thomas, Sr.; Mewborn Family
Physical description
2.51 Cubic Feet, 6 archival boxes and 1 oversize folder
Preferred Citation
Martha Mewborn Marble Collection (#683), 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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Genealogical materials given by Martha Mewborn Marble including Bible records, photographs, notes, legal documents, land records, and clippings concerning families in Greene, Lenoir, Jones, and Pitt counties, North Carolina. Some of the families included are Mewborn, Kilpatrick, Albritton, Pugh, Cannon, Batchelor, Howell, Ormond, Carr, Hardison, Taylor, Sutton, Jackson, Frye, Ham, Hartsfield, Dupree, Faulkner, Rouse, Phillips, Franklin, Joyner, Bryan, Hatch, Cox, McCoy, and Abbott families. Also included are Le-Nea, the first yearbook (1938) for Contentnea High School, Graingers, Lenoir County, North Carolina, autograph books, and a ledger (1888-1892) of Wilbar General Store, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. The Kayaitchess (1924) Vol. 1, published by the students of Kinston High School, Kinston, North Carolina, and the Connecting Link Commencement Issue 1926, published every other week by students of Kinston City Schools under the Supervision of Committee of Teachers have been transferred to the North Carolina Collection and have been catalogued.

Biographical/historical information

Martha Sue Mewborn was born March 17, 1944, to Ronald Earl (Sam) Mewborn, Jr., and Martha Hardison Mewborn of Kinston, North Carolina. She graduated from Atlantic Christian College and worked as an aide to a Georgia Congressman in Washington, DC. There she married Ramon Arando Marble and they had a daughter Margaret Virginia (Ginny) Marble. When her husband retired, they moved to New Bern circa 2005. Martha Marble was a well-known genealogist in eastern North Carolina and helped many other people with their family history research. She died April 23, 2019, in Newport, NC, and was buried in Kinston, NC, at Westview Cemetery.

Sources:

https://www.kahlertfunerals.com/single-post/2019/04/23/Martha-Sue-Mewborn-Marble

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198574752/martha-sue-marble

Administrative information
Custodial History

August 15, 1994 179 pages; Genealogical materials for Mewborn, Kilpatrick, Moseley, Albritton, Pugh, Cannon, Batchelor, Howell, and Carr families. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble.

November 3, 1999 2 pages; Pugh-Mewborn family Bible records for Greene and Lenoir counties, N.C. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble.

March 21, 2000 1 volume; Thomas Ormond prayer book, containing birth and death records of Ormond family. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble.

October 30, 2000 4 items; Autograph books for Ann Priscella Moye, William Edgar Mewborn, and Lula Lee Lang of Pitt County, NC and birth/death entries from the Bible of Felix and Martha Virginia Grubbs Hardison of Lenoir County, NC. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble.

October 11, 2001 3 items, 0.06 cubic feet; Levi Jesse Handy Mewborn family photographs, clipping & In Memoriam book (undated) 8 items; Descendants of John Sutton genealogical research notebook (looseleaf), 1730-1961, by Martha Mewborn Marble (1 October 2001) Photocopy typescript, 88 p.; Genealogical documents, clippings, bible records, notes & address book (undated) of Mewborn, Taylor, Sutton, Jackson, Frye, Ham, Hartsfield, Dupree, Faulkner, and Rouse families, Lenoir County, NC. Photocopies, 88 p. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble.

October 22, 2002 30 items, 0.02 cubic feet; Collection (ca. 1877-1968) of Pitt County and Lenoir County, NC legal and land documents relating to the Carr, Mewborn, Phillips, Franklin, and Joyner families. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble.

May 27, 2005 1 item, .004 cubic feet; Bryan - Hatch Family Bible records (1755-1887), relating to Craven County and Jones County, North Carolina. Photocopies. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble

November 8, 2005 128 items, 1.05 cubic feet; Collection (1869-1957) relating to William H. Cox, R. E. Cox, N. H. Cox, Mark Mewborn and related families of Kinston, Lenoir County and Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, including ledgers, manuscripts, printed materials, photographic prints, plats, maps, deeds, mortgages, tax records, financial records, clippings, and correspondence, etc. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble

November 16, 2006 2 items, 0.25 cubic feet; Collection (1916-1938) of manuscript materials including Le-Nea, the first yearbook Contentnea High School, Graingers, Lenoir County, North Carolina, 1938, and finances of Mewborn's Insurance Agency Company, Masonic Mutual Life Association & Baker Farm. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble

December 12, 2007 1 volume, 0.25 cubic feet; Ledger (1888-1892) of Wilbar General Store, Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina containing indexed record of customers' accounts, including debits and credits for groceries, clothing, fuel, hardware & farm equipment & household supplies. Leather bound. Donor: Ms. Martha Mewborn Marble

August 10, 2015 0.01 cubic feet; Addition includes Bible records for John F. McCoy and his wife Elizabeth J. McCoy who were married on October 28, 1877, and resided in Lenoir Co., N.C. Included in the records are birth, death, and marriage dates for John's parents, William F. and Julia Ann McCoy (who died in 1856) and second wife Zilpha, his siblings and his children. This addition also includes two pages of Abbott family vital statistics related to Thomas Andrew Abbott and his wife Julia Ethalia McCoy Abbott and their children. These records belonged to Egbert Thomas Rouse, Sr. Donor: Martha Mewborn Marble

August 14, 2015 0.01 cubic feet; Addition includes three issues (November 1913, December 1913, October 1915) of The Tatler published by the students of Kinston High School, Kinston, North Carolina; an 1839 deed between James G. Stanly and John Merriett of Jones County, North Carolina; and the 1924/1925 yearbook for the Kinston Community Club of Kinston, North Carolina. [The yearbook was donated by Isabelle M. Perry through Martha Marble.] Donor: Martha Mewborn Marble

April 6, 2020, 0.01 cubic feet; Addition includes Bible records for Ronald Earl Mewborn and Susie Phillips Mewborn of Lenoir County, North Carolina. They were the parents of Martha Sue Mewborn Marble. Donated by Dr. Joe P. Sutton for Martha Mewborn Marble estate.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Martha Mewborn Marble

Gift of Joe P. Sutton

Processing information

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Container List Updated by Ashlyn Racine, June 2023

Copyright notice

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

Key terms
Corporate Names
Contentnea High School (Lenoir County, N.C.)--Periodicals
Kinston Community Club--Periodicals
Masonic Mutual Life Association--Finance
Mewborn's Insurance Agency Company--Finance
Wilbar General Store
Topical
General stores--North Carolina--Greenville
Places
Craven County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Greene County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Jones County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Lenoir County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Pitt County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Container list
Box 1 Folder a Genealogical Materials (n.d.) for Moseley, Kilpatrick, Mewborn, Pugh, Howell, Carr, Albritton, Pttman, Batchelor families
Box 1 Folder b Pugh-Mewborn Family Bible Records: Births, Deaths, and Marriages 2 pages, 1813-1926
Box 1 Folder c Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, 1782
Box 2 Folder a Levi Jesse Hardy Mewborn Family Photographs, etc; Descendants of John Sutton genealogical research notebook (1730-1961), by Martha Mewborn Matle (10/1/2001) Photocopies; Genealogical documents, clippings, etc. (n.d.) 1/2, 1730-2001
Box 2 Folder b Levi Jesse Hardy Mewborn Family Photographs, etc; Descendants of John Sutton genealogical research notebook (1730-1961), by Martha Mewborn Matle (10/1/2001) Photocopies; Genealogical documents, clippings, etc. (n.d.) 2/2, 1730-2001
Box 2 Folder d Autograph books belonging to Ann Priscella Moye (1851-1854), William Edgar Mewborn (1862-1865), and Lula Lee Lang (1883-1884) Of Pitt County. Also Felix and Martha Virginia Grubbs Hardison of Lenior County Bible Records (1887-1926). 4 items. ca. 75 pages., 1851
Box 2 Folder e Bryan-Hatch Family Bible Records Photocopies, 1755-1887
Box 3 Folder a Ledger (1895-1896) recording payments for Dog & Goat Tax, Dray Tax, Livery Tax, Hotel Tax, Horse Dealers Tax, Liquor Dealers Tax, Purchase Tax (Semi Annual), Miscellaneous License Tax, General Tax, Special Poll Tax, and Special Property Tax compiled by Pitt County Tax Collector N. H. Cox. 1 item. 66 p. (ca. 0.022 cubic feet) Recd. 10/28/2005. Note: Ledger leather bound
Box 3 Folder b Ledger (5/24-7/18/1902) of daily sales receipts compiled by Mark Mewborn, Grocer, Kinston, North Carolina; list of workers and payments; also Mark Mewborn Grocer! 136 N. Queen Street, Kinston, NC paper bag. 3 items. 78 p. (ca. 0.026 cubic feet). Note: Ledger paper bound
Box 3 Folder c William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1868-1889) 12 items. Ca. 24 p. Note: also includes Robert E. Cox, Lucy Cox Mewborn, and Sarah Cox documents
Box 3 Folder d William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1890-1897) 23 items. Ca. 50 p
Box 3 Folder e William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1901-1908) 18 items. Ca. 24 p
Box 3 Folder f William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1909-1917) 24 items. Ca. 50 p
Box 3 Folder g William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1919) 7 items. Ca. 35 p
Box 3 Folder h William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1920-1929) 8 items. Ca. 12 p
Box 3 Folder i William H. Cox family deeds, mortgages, receipts, stock certificates, plats, correspondence, Lenoir County & Pitt County, NC (1947, 1957) 3 items. 5 p
Box 4 Folder a Scrapbook pages (n.d.) of Kinston, NC newspaper clippings. 1 item. 33 p
Box 4 Folder b Charles C. & C. B. Phillips financial records (1877-1904) 9 items. 9 p
Box 4 Folder c R. E. Cox tax receipt (11/23/1910) Chocowinity Township, Beaufort County, NC. 1 item. 1 p
Box 4 Folder d John C. Washington account settlement for Miss Pansie Taylor (1/9/1869) 1 item. 1 p
Box 4 Folder e Daily Reflector, Greenville, NC (1/22/1895) Vol. 1, no. 37. Newspaper. 1 item. 1 p
Box 4 Folder f W. H. Harding Letter (11/14/1913) to Lucy (Mrs. Mark) Mewborn, Kinston, NC 1 item. 2 p
Box 4 Folder g Greenville Institute programs (n.d.) 2 items. 2 p
Box 4 Folder h Greenville Female School closing exercises program (6/12/1885) 1 item. 2 p
Box 4 Folder i Kinston Woman's Club photograph (ca. 1976) Clipping of photograph reprinted from 1906 Kinston Free Press Industrial Edition. 1 item. 1 p
Box 4 Folder j Mrs. Ladie Kornegay operating a telephone switchboard (ca. 1900) Photographic Print. 1 item. 1 p
Box 4 Folder k James L. Fleming, Larry Moore, Mrs. Millie Higgs, Mrs. F. M. Hodges, Mrs. Betsy Greene, Mrs. Bessie Jarvis, Greenville, NC (ca. 1895( Photographic Print. 1 item. 1 p
Box 4 Folder l Birth and death records for Andrew Abbott and Julia Ethalia McCoy Abbott family (Lenoir Co., NC?), 1867-1938
Box 4 Folder m Tatler (published by Kinston High School students, Kinston, N.C.) for Nov., Dec. 1913, Oct. 1915; 1839 Jones Co., N.C., land deed (Stanly, Merriett); 1924/25 yearbook for Kinston Community Club, Kinston, N.C
Box 4 Folder n Bible records for Ronald Earl Mewborn and Susie Phillips Mewborn of Lenoir County, North Carolina. They were the parents of Martha Sue Mewborn Marble.
Box 5 Folder a Ledger (1904-1905) of accounts compiled by Mark Mewborn, Grocer, Kinston, North Carolina; list of workers and payments; also Mark Mewborn Grocer! 136 N. Queen Street, Kinston, NC paper bag. 16" x 11" x 4", 1 item. 355 p. used out of 950 p. (ca. 0.43 cubic feet). Note: Ledger paper bound
Box 6 Folder a Le-Nea (1938) a scrapbook compiled by the senior class of Contentnea High School, Graingers, Lenoir County, North Carolina. Typescript & mimeographed, with photographic prints of administrators, faculty, students, and school buildings. Loose leaf bound. 1 item. 48 p. Notes: Signed: "Martha Virginia Hardison" a member of the senior class. The title "Le-Ne" is derived from the Lenoir-Contentnea. Intended to serve as a "pictorial keepsake" for the senior class of 1938. Includes individual photographs of senior class members and group photographs of others classes
Box 6 Folder b 2 Ledgers (1916-1930) of Eastern North Carolina life insurance sales for Mewborn's Insurance Agency Company, the Masonic Mutual Life Association & farm expenses for the Baker Farm, compiled by William Edgar Mewborn, Lenoir County, North Carolina. Holograph mss. Note: Mewborn was married to Lula Lee Lang, Pitt County, NC. Insurance records includes names, dates, address, results, doctor, kind of policy, premium paid & how paid, etc. for each insured. Water & mold damage to cover & binding
Folder os1 Item 1 Road Map (1924) State Highway System of North Carolina. Office of Senior Highway Engineer. Edition of June 1st, 1924. 33.75" x 14" Scale: 2.5" = 40 miles. 1 item. 1 p. Verso: Table of Distances, Route Markers, Registration Rates, etc
Folder os1 Item 2 Plat (Dec. 1926) of the Jesse L. Kennedy Place, owned by the Sutton Hiers [sic], Institute Township, Lenoir County, NC, Walter & Gurley Auction Co., Kinston, NC, Selling Agents. Blueprint. 23" x 12.125" Scale: 1" = 300'. 1 item. 1 p
Folder os1 Item 3 Plat (Dec. 1926) of the John A. Sutton Homeplace, Institute Township, Lenoir County, NC, Walter & Gurley Auction Co., Kinston, NC, Selling Agents. Blueprint. 24" x 13.187" Scale: 1" = 300'. 1 item. 1 p
Folder os1 Item 4 Map (11/26/1926) of the J. T. Williams Farm, Wilson Township, Wilson County, NC. Sold by Walter Gurley Auction Company, Kinston, NC. Meriweather Lewis, Registered Surveyor. Blueprint. 24" x 17" Scale: 1" = 150'. 1 item. 1 p
Folder os1 Item 5 Map (1926) of the Property of E. K. Wright, Wilson County, NC. From survey by Brett Engineering Co. Subdivided by Gladding Engineering Company. Blueprint. 21.25" x 25" Scale: 1" = 200'. 2 item. 2 p. Note: Duplicates
Folder os1 Item 6 Plat (Nov. 1929) of F. H. Hooks Farm, Great Swamp Township, Wayne County, NC, Property of Bennett Hooks & J. I Musgrave, subdivided in Nov. 1929 by W. L. Trevathan, Engr., Wilson, NC, from a survey made by Louis Godwin, Sur., Goldsboro, NC. Blueprint. Scale: 17" x 13" Scale: 1" = 60'. 1 item. 1 p
Folder os1 Item 7 Map of Record (12/10/1946) of the R. E. Cox Property, "Lincoln City," Kinston, Lenoir County, NC. Meriweather Lewis, Registered Surveyor. Blueprint. 30" x 12" No Scale 1 item. 1 p
Folder os1 Item 8 Plat (n.d.) of the Davis Farm, Pink Hill Township, Lenoir County, NC, owned by E. K. Davis, Subdivided by Walter & Gurley, Kinston, NC. Blueprint. 25.5" x 19.25" Scale: 1" = 300'. 1 item. 1 p
Folder os1 Item 9 Bible records for the family of John F. McCoy and his wife Elizabeth J. McCoy of Lenoir Co., NC, who were married in 1877 (also includes dates for John's parents and siblings).1822-1894