Rev. Ivey James Wall, Jr. Collection

Scope and arrangement

The Rev. Ivey James Wall, Jr. collection consists of records, files, and notebooks created and compiled by Rev. Ivey James Wall, Jr. The materials generally relate to genealogical records of families in multiple counties around Eastern North Carolina. These records include photocopies of marriage, death, and birth certificates as well as photocopies of bible and other records.

Administrative information

Custodial History

April 21, 2006, 320 items, 2.25 cubic feet; Genealogical files (ca. 1960s-2005) relating to Greenville, Pitt County, and Eastern North Carolina, ca. 1761-2005, including research notes, photocopies and extracts of documents, and Bible records. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Betty Manning Wall & Lynn Testerman Wall

May 3, 2006, 31 items, 0.022 cubic feet; Collection (ca. 1940-1971, undated) of genealogical notes and records relating to the Bland family of Pitt County, North Carolina, including manuscript typescripts and photocopies. Donor: Betty Manning Wall & Lynn Testerman Wall

January 16, 2007, 10 items, 0.50 cubic feet; Collection (ca. 1966-1971, undated) of notebooks containing genealogical information, relating to Edgecombe County, Jones County, Lenoir County, & Pitt County, North Carolina families. Spiral bound. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Betty Manning Wall & Lynn Testerman Wall

Source of acquisition

Gift of Betty Manning Wall

Gift of Lynn Testerman Wall

Processing information

Original inventory prepared by donor Betty Wall. Updated by Jon Dembo. Encoded by Mark Custer, March 12, 2008

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

Family Names

Bland family

Places

Edgecombe County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Jones County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Lenoir County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Pitt County (N.C.)--Genealogy

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Box 1

Genealogical Files listed by family names starting with A-F with Index of Secondary Surnames

Box 1 Folder a Part 1: Adams [Other names referenced: Mckinney, Stokes, Kirkman, Bland, Fornes, Gardner, Others]. Part 2: Adams. Part 3: Allen, Arnold. Part 4: Albritton, Armstrong. Part 5: Atkinson. // Other names referenced: Elks, Smith, Weeks, Chapman, Emery, Wyatt, Pearce, Forguson, Grover, Blanks, Lindsay, Jackson, Parker, Mills, Campbell, Garrett, Briley.

Box 1 Folder b Part 1: Baker, Barber. Part 2: Barnes, Bynum. Part 3: Barnhill, Baldaree. Part 4: Bectons. Part 5: Bell. Part 6: Bland [Correspondence]. Part 7: Blount. Part 8: Boyd. // Other names referenced: Albritton, Jelks, Pearce, Cherry, Kunsell, Corres, Edwards, Wall.

Box 1 Folder c Part 1: Bonner, Blackledge. Part 2: Bowden. Part 3: Braxton, Brewer. Part 4: Bright, Briley, Brinkley. Part 5: Brown, Browning. Part 6: Bryan. Part 7: Buck. Part 8: Burney, Bullock. // Other names referenced: Skinner, Corey, Bryant, Rolin, Dison, Barrow, Brooks, Pugh, Wilson.

Box 1 Folder d Part 1: Campbell. Part 2: Carmack. Part 3: Carr. Part 4: Carroll. Part 5: Caton. Part 6: Causey. Part 7: Cavanah. Part 8: Chance [Other names referenced: Gainer]. Part 9. Chapman. Part 10: Cherry. Part 11: Clark. Part 12: Cory, Coart. Part 13: Coward, Cowell. Part 14: Cox, Cobb. Part 15: Crisp, Crafton. // Other names referenced: Forbes, John, Testerman, Dixon, Chapman, Weeks, Lancaster, Bright, Stafford, Shipp, Kinsaul, Bland, Gwaltney, Joyner, Wiggins, Venters.

Box 1 Folder e Part 1: Daniel. Part 2: Davis, Drake. Part 3: Dawson, Dail. Part 4: Dixon. Part 5: Dudley. Part 6: Dupree, Darden.

Box 1 Folder f Part: 1 Eborn, Ernul. Part 2: Edmundson. Part 3: Edwards, Elk. Part 4: Eubanks. Part 5: Evans, Ewell. // Other names referenced: Hudson (1663), Wall, Nelson.

Box 1 Folder g Part 1: Fonvielle. Part 2: Forbes. Part 3: Fordham. Part 4: Foreman. Part 5: Fornes. Part 6: Forrest. Part 7: Frizzle. // Other names referenced: Arthur, Clement, Mills, William.

Box 2

Genealogical Files listed by Family Names Starting with G-L

Box 2 Folder a Part 1: Garris. Part 2: Gaskins. Part 3: Gatlin. Part 4: Godley, Goff. Part 5: Graves, Grainger. Part 6: Griffin. Part 7: Grist, Gray. Part 8: Gwaltney. // Other names referenced: Pugh, Brooks, Wall, Grimes, Gainer, Chance.

Box 2 Folder b Part 1: Haddock, Highsmith. Part 2: Handcock. Part 3: Hanrahan. Part 4: Harper, Harvey. Part 5: Hardy, Hardee. Part 6: Harris. Part 7: Harrison, Harris. Part 8: Hart, Hearn. Part 9: Herring. // Other names referenced: Walls, Stokes, Adams, Nelson, Cannon, Mills, Kennedy, Bryan, Simpson, Easton, Dixon.

Box 2 Folder c Part 1: Herrington, Harrington. Part 2: Herrington [Other names referenced: Brooks, Moore, Bland]. Part 3: Hills, Hines. Part 4: Hodges, Holland. Part 5: Holding, Hopkins. Part 6: Holloway. Part 7: Hooker. Part 8: Howell, Hudson. // Other names referenced: Haddock, Wilson, Pittman, Smith, Chapman, Coward, Joyner, Wall, Peterson, Hookerton, Elks.

Box 2 Folder d Part 1: Isler. Part 2: Jackson. Part 3: Jarrel, James. Part 4: Jarvis. Part 5: Jenkins. Part 6: Johnson. Part 7: Jones, Jordan. // Other names referenced: Wilson, Cannon, Kittrell, Smith, Salter, Herrington, Howell.

Box 2 Folder e Part 1: Keel. Part 2: Kennedy. Part 3: Kight. Part 4: Kilpatrick. Part 5: King. Part 6: Kinnion. Part 7: Kinsaul, Kinsall. Part 8: Kinsey. Part 9: Kirkman. Part 10: Kittrell. Part 11: Knox. Part 12: Kornegay. // Other names referenced: Pridgen, Wilson, Holliday, Crandall, Woolard, Jenkins, Carraway, Latham, Wynn, Page, Wichard, Cherry, Albritton, Moore, Simpson, Brooks, Hanrahan, Eason, Burney, Stafford, Pugh, Fornes, Jerusha, Boyd, Hill, Wall, Sparkman, Pearce, Wadsworth, Joiner, Isler, Williams, Brook, Brown, Anderson, Huggins, Dudley, Cannon, Clark, Gaskins, Stokes, Causey, Wingfield, Gwaltney, Harris, Smith, Forbes, Brinley, Grist, Sheppard. Simmons

Box 2 Folder f Part 1: Lancaster, Langley. Part 2: Laughinghouse. Part 3: Little, Latham. Part 4: Lawrence. Part 5: Letchworth, Lanier. Part 6: Lillington, Linnington. Part 7: Loftins. Part 8: Lwellyd [Other names referenced: Bowers, Manning, Stanton]. // Other names referenced: Dixon, Pollard, Skinner, Bland, Mayo, Elks, Nelson, Wall, Trinity Cemetery, Williams, Colonel Thomas Latham Graveyard, Perry, Latham bible 1795, Watkins, Herring, Gardner.

Box 3

Genealogical Files listed by family names starting with M-S

Box 3 Folder a Part 1: Mace. Part 2: May. Part 3: McCotter. Part 4: McDaniel. Part 5: McKinney. Part 6: McLawhorn, McGlohorn. Part 7: McIwain. Part 8: Mewbern. // Other names referenced: Tyson, Sherrod, Forbes, Grimes, Peterson, Dixon, Perkins, Brooks, Tingle, Riggs, Simpson, Sutton, Buck, Harrington, Polly Elizabeth (Daughter of William Barber).

Box 3 Folder b Part 1: Miller. Part 2: Mills. Part 3: Moore, Matthew. Part 4: Moore, Mooring. Part 5: Moye. Part 6: Murphy. // Other names referenced: Smith, David, Hardee, Wall, Baker, Dixon, Forbes.

Box 3 Folder c Part 1: Nelson. Part 2: Nobles. Part 3: Norcott. Part 4: Norman. Part 5 Nunn. // Other names referenced: Laughinghouse, Williams, Clark, Simpson, Brickell, Hathaway, Smith.

Box 3 Folder d Part 1: Parker. Part 2: Patrick, Palmer. Part 3: Paul, Page. Part 4: Pearce, Pierce. Part 5: Perkins, Pierce. Part 6: Pollard. Part 7: Pollock. Part 8: Preddy. Part 9: Proctor. Part 10: Pugh. Part 11: Putnell. // Other names referenced: Brooksland, tucker, Haddock, Coart, Grist, Averrett, Williams, Simpson, Causey, Cemetery Listing by Dot Buchanan, Burney.

Box 3 Folder e Part 1: Quinnerly. Part 2: Randolph. Part 3: Rieves, Rives, Ringgold. Part 4: Roach. Part 5: Ross. Part 6: Rountree, Rogers. // Other names referenced: Chapman, Ernul, Gardner, Brooks, Simpson, Mcllwean, Cannon, Hearne, Braxton, Childs, Parker, Stokes, Bond, Browning, Forbes, Sally, Harrington, Alonza, Sugg, May, Harper, Hart.

Box 3 Folder f Part 1: Salter, Sanders. Part 2: Shipp, Snoad. Part 3: Simmons. Part 4: Simpson. Part 5: Slade, Spivey. Part 6: Smith [Other name referenced: Allen]. Part 7: Smith – 1. Part 8: Smith – 2. // Other names referenced: Cannon: Surmons, Tripp, Dail, Evans, Anderson, Turner, Sylvester, Lacy.

Box 4

Genealogical Files listed by family names starting with S-Z

Box 4 Folder a

Part 1: Slaughter. Part 2: Stafford, Speight. Part 3: Stancil, Staton. Part 4: Stewart, Speir, Shepherds. Part 5: Stocks. Part 6.1: Stokes. Part 6.2: Stokes. Part 7: Sturdivant. Part 8: Summerell. Part 9: Sutton, Sugg. // Other names referenced: Herrington, Cotton, Cason, Hathaway, Salter, Randolph, Coker, Knight, Jones, Porter, Glasgow, Bough, Windley, Nobles, Eaton, Jeffries, Hill, Forbes, Robert, Hardee, McKinney, Scarbough, Simpson, Smith, Hardee, Hamilton, Connor, Tison, Gwaltney, Coward, Williams, Broome, May, Adams, Hines, Haddock, Boyd, Ives, Sarah, Tyson, Wallace, Mercer, Mound, Reading, Murphy, Howell, Lovette, Mace, Cromwell, Howell, Dupree, Aldridge, Pridgen, Armstrong, Bonner.

Box 4 Folder b Part 1: Taylor. Part 2: Testerman [Other name referenced: Livesay (Tennessee)]. Part 3: Tripp. Part 4: Tucker. Part 5: Turnage, Teal. Part 6: Tunstall. Part 7: Tuten. Part 8: Venters. Part 9: Vines, Vainwright. // Other names referenced: Wall, Joseph, Laughinghouse, Lynn.

Box 4 Folder c Part 1: Wall. Part 2: Ward. Part 3: Whitehead, Whitehurst, Whichard. Part 4: Whitford. Part 5: Wiggins. Part 6: Wilson, Watkins. Part 7: Wingate, Wilkes. Part 8: Womble. Part 9: Wooten. Part 10: Worsley, Weeks. // Other names referenced: Laughinghouse, Warren, Blount, Slade, Elks, Hodges, Lawson, Baker, Kinnon, Cousins, Mayo, Godley, Bland, Congleton, Aldridge, Puifoy, Salter, Pollard, Coggins, Belcher, Clark, Gwaltney, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, Cannon, Randolph, Burney, Isler, Allen, Pugh, Forbes, Nancy.

Box 5

Genealogy Notebooks

Box 5 Item 1 Book 1 (ca. 1969) including Wall, Blount, Bonner, Brooks, Cox Wilson, Gardner, Gwaltney, Johnson, Latham, Laughinghouse families. 1 item. 75 p

Box 5 Item 2 Book 2 (ca. 1966) including Cox, Dixon, Laughinghouse, Mills, Pollard, Wall & Smith families & Edgecombe County & Jones County wills. 1 item. 37 p

Box 5 Item 3 Book 3 (undated) including Gwaltney, Rives, & Tyson families & Lenoir County death certificates, 1914-1918. 1 item. 19 p

Box 5 Item 4 Book 4 (ca. 1967-1968) including Adams, Boyd, Bryant, Herrington, Holloway, Laughinghouse, Rosier & Smith families. 1 item. 34 p

Box 5 Item 5 Book 5 (undated) including Boyd, Edwards, Godley, Hill & May families. 1 item. 98 p

Box 5 Item 6 Book 6 (ca. 1969) including Gardner, Gwaltney, Laughinghouse, Stokes, Wall families & Pitt County deeds. 1 item. 162 p

Box 5 Item 7 Book 7 (undated) including Edwards, Johnson, Kennedy, Pearce, & Wiggins families. 1 item. 100 p. Note: pp. 1-66

Box 5 Item 8 Book 8 (ca. 1971) including Brown, Gwaltney, & Rives familes. 1 item. 60 p

Box 5 Item 9 Book 9 (undated) including Adams, Stokes, Venters, Purser, Wilson, Mills, Coward, Oakley, House, Elks, Price, Godley, Smith, & Witherington families. 1 item. 100 p. Note: pp. 105-204

Box 5 Item 10 Book 10 (undated) including Adams, Campbell, Dixon, Elks, Haddock, Hudson, Smith, Stokes, Buck, Boyd, Nelson, Edwards, Gardner, Oakley, Fornes, Jackson, & Sutton families. 1 item. 52 p. Note: 53-104

Box 6

Genealogy Files

Box 6 Folder a Reverend Ivey Wall, Jr. Notebook

Box 6 Folder b Bible Records from Ivey Wall Files including Seconday Surnames

Box 6 Folder c 1850 Census Materials with Index of Pitt County Maiden Names

Box 6 Folder d Witherington, Godley, Cannon, Phillips, and other families

Box 6 Folder e Alphabetical Index to Pitt county Marriages 1761-1830

Box 6 Folder f Genealogy Notes on the Bland Family