Lawrence A. Watts, Jr. Collection

ca. 1880-1954, 2006
Manuscript Collection #1077
Creator(s)
Physical description
0.27 Cubic Feet, 4 items , photographs, a CD, and a publication.
Preferred Citation
Lawrence A. Watts, Jr. Collection (#1077), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
Access to audiovisual and digital media is restricted. Please contact Special Collections for more information.

This collection contains photographs of descendants of Willie Brown (1799-1867) and Nancy Moye Brown of Greenville and Pitt County, North Carolina, especially through the line of their son Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown (1823-1903) and his wife Jane Marie Greene. Also included are photographs of members of the Waldrop, Moore, Morrill/Morrell, Ernul, Cherry and Watts families related through the spouses of the children of Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown and photographs (1920, undated but before 1908) of the James Brown home at 627 Dickinson Ave. in Greenville, N.C. Non-photographic material includes The Genealogy of the Lost Robert White Watts and his Descendants, by Lawrence A. Watts, Jr. (2006), relating to the Watts family of Lynchburg and Amherst County, Virginia and Greenville, North Carolina.


Biographical/historical information

The people represented in these photographs are the descendants of Willie Brown (1799-1867) and Nancy Moye Brown of Greenville and Pitt County, North Carolina, especially through their son Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown (1823-1903) and his wife Jane Marie Greene. Photographs of members of the Waldrop, Moore, Morrill/Morrell, Ernul, Cherry and Watts families relate to the spouses of James Brown, William Benjamin Brown, Wyatt Livingston Brown, Zeno Brown, Jane Brown Morrell and Wiley Brown (children of Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown) and their children.

Source for family relationships: http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.cfm/William-Moye-Benjamin-Brown/f28107#top, a website created by Ray Gurganus.


Scope and arrangement

The bulk of this collection are photographs of the descendants of Willie Brown (1799-1867) and Nancy Moye Brown of Greenville and Pitt County, North Carolina. Photographs are either labeled with names, dates, or locations of family memebers.


Administrative information
Custodial History

August 14, 2006, 3 items, 0.250 cubic feet; Photograph album (ca. 1880-1954) containing images of the Brown, Moore, Morrill, Ernul, Cherry, and Watts families, of Pitt County, North Carolina, with captions and index; and a compact disc with digital copies of the images. 52 black & white, 1 color, & 2 colorized images, in 1 vol. (loose leaf) & 1 compact disc & case. Donor: William B. Kittrell

January 24, 2008, ( addition 1) 1 item, 0.02 cubic feet; The Genealogy of the Lost Robert White Watts and his Descendants, by Lawrence A. Watts, Jr. (2006), relating to the Watts family of Lynchburg and Amherst County, Virginia and Greenville, North Carolina. Photocopy typescript. Spiral bound. 1 vol. 67 p. (ca. 0.02 cubic feet). Recd. 1/16/2008 . Note: Includes foreword, genealogical charts, illustrations, and historical notes. Donor: Lawrence A. Watts, Jr.

Source of acquisition

Gift of William B. Kittrell

Processing information

Encoded by Lindsay Flood, March 28, 2008

Description and Container List updated by Ashlyn Racine, August 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
Personal Names
Brown, Nancy Moye
Brown, William Moye Benjamin, 1823-1903
Brown, Willie, 1799-1867
Greene, Jane Marie
Watts, Robert White
Family Names
Brown family
Cherry family
Ernul family
Moore family
Morrill family
Watt family

Container list
Box 1 Folder a Index and Reprints, Photographs, Compact Disc.
Box 1 Folder b Item 1 Jesse Harrington
Box 1 Folder b Item 2 The James Brown home, 1920
Box 1 Folder b Item 3 Dr. Wyatt L. Brown (37) married to Dora Brown. Macon Mississippi
Box 1 Folder b Item 4 Earnest M. Wharton.Age 13. James Wharton's son
Box 1 Folder b Item 5 William, Lawrence, and Sam Morrill. Sister Jennie's boys
Box 1 Folder b Item 6 James Brown. Age 18. Tarboro, NC.
Box 1 Folder b Item 7 Mary Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 8 Mrs. Hattie Lloyd Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 9 Aunt Nancy and Bessie (39), 1902
Box 1 Folder b Item 10 Dr. W.M.B. Brown. Taken 10 days after he entered his Eighty-First year, 1903
Box 1 Folder b Item 11 Lallah Brown Watts. Mrs. Lawrence Watts, daughter of Mrs. James Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 12 James Beiton Cherry
Box 1 Folder b Item 13 Nina Cherry
Box 1 Folder b Item 14 Aunt Jennie Brown Morrill
Box 1 Folder b Item 15 Mr. and Mrs. Jason Wharton
Box 1 Folder b Item 16 Elvira S. Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 17 J. Y. Joyner
Box 1 Folder b Item 18 Lawrence Morrill and Sons. William B., Lawrence, and Sam
Box 1 Folder b Item 19 "Uncle Mac" and James Brown at Front Door , 1908
Box 1 Folder b Item 20 Dora Bush Brown, Walter Wilson Sr., Mrs. Ada Cherry, Mrs. Ada Pearce, baby
Box 1 Folder b Item 21 Mr. Garland G. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 22 Marcellus Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 23 W.M.B. Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 24 Marcellus Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 25 McGregor Emul
Box 1 Folder b Item 26 James Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 27 Marcellus Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 28 James Brown and wife Elvira Serena Moore Brown, 1937
Box 1 Folder b Item 29 Mrs. Lallah Brown Watts and her sister Mrs. Ellie Brown Tolson, 1960
Box 1 Folder b Item 30 Dr. James Brown, M.D., 1940
Box 1 Folder b Item 31 Mary Bruce Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 32 J. Mark Hodges, M.D.
Box 1 Folder b Item 33 Dr. Zeno Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 34 David Whichard, Sr.
Box 1 Folder b Item 35 Uncle Mac and Mr. Alfred Forbes
Box 1 Folder b Item 36 Elvira S. Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 37 Harry M. Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 38 Nina Cherry
Box 1 Folder b Item 39 Adrianna Emul Moore
Box 1 Folder b Item 40 Betty Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 41 James Wharton, bro., and friend
Box 1 Folder b Item 42 William Burn Morill
Box 1 Folder b Item 43 Joseph Key Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 44 Henry M. Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 45 James Wharton
Box 1 Folder b Item 46 Amy Guion Williams
Box 1 Folder b Item 47 Mrs. Elvira S. (James) Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 48 Allie Higgs
Box 1 Folder b Item 49 Joseph Key Brown
Box 1 Folder b Item 50 Mrs. Emma Purvis Brown, 1936
Box 1 Folder c Genealogy of the Last Robert White Watts and His Descendants by Lawrence A. Watts, Jr.