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May 18, 2011, (unprocessed) 1.0 cubic feet, 170 items; Papers (ca. 1770-1925) include correspondence, land grants, financial records, school notes take at Trinity College, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs pertaining to the Ormond and Turnage families of Greene and Pitt Counties, North Carolina. Considerable material pertains to State Senator Yancey T. Ormond of Greene County. Donor: Loys Ormond Turnage Sumrell
May 26, 2021, (unprocessed addition 1) 0.25 cubic feet; This addition (1757-1913) contains documents concerning the Ormond family in Dobbs and Greene Counties, North Carolina. Included are deeds, guardian accounts, wills, receipts, sermons, estate inventory, marriage record, boundaries for tracts of land, and pamphlets. Also included is a book titled The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior by George Henry Maynard published by William Durrell in 1794. Donor: Pattie McCay Dunn
Source of acquisition
Gift of Loys Ormond Turnage Sumrell
Gift of Pattie McCay Dunn
Processing information
Container List completed by Amanda Keeny, 2011, and Martha Elmore in 2021.
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Container list
Box 1 Folder a
Correspondence (1804-1861, undated) written to or about Thomas C. Ormond. 4 items
Box 1 Folder b
Receipts and promissory notes (1845-1888) of Thomas Ormond and Mrs. M. A. Ormond. Includes a 9/26/1864 tax in kind receipt from the Confederate States Government. 50 items
Box 1 Folder c
Wills and estate records (1803-1881) of the Ormond Family of Greene Co., N.C. 7 items
Box 1 Folder d
Land records (1767-1875) related to the Ormond Family of Dobbs and Greene Cos., N.C. 7 items
Box 1 Folder e
Legal documents (1845-1884) related to the Ormond Family of Pitt and Greene Cos., N.C. 5 items
Box 1 Folder f
Account Books (1852-1869) of Thomas C. Ormond. 3 items
Box 1 Folder g
Diary (1878-1883) and account book (1888-1893) of Yancey T. Ormond. 2 items
Box 1 Folder i
Lecture notes (1876-1877) of Yancey T. Ormond while a student at Trinity College (later Duke University), N.C. 1 item
Box 1 Folder j
Exercise books used by Yancey T. Ormond while a student at Trinity College (1876-1877) and while studying the law at Trinity College (1889); Exercise book (1883) used by W. E. Ormond at Davis High School, LaGrange, N.C.; Logic lecture notes (undated). 4 items
Box 1 Folder k
Newspaper clippings (1922, undated) consisting mostly of Ormond Family obituaries. 11 items
Box 2 Folder a
Photographs (undated) of the Ormond and Turnage Families. 3 items
Box 2 Folder b
Photographs (undated) of children Roy, Jean, and Loys Turnage (?). 7 items
Box 2 Folder c
Photographs (1898-1945, undated), mostly of Ormond and Turnage Families. 14 items
Box 2 Folder d
Publications (1861-1925), including "Motives to Early Piety" (June 1861) by the late Harlan Page; Historical Papers of the North Carolina Conference Historical Society and the Western North Carolina Conference Historical Society (1925) belonging to Mrs. Roy L. Turnage; and The Daily Nut Shell Vol.19(?), No. 87, April 20, 1875, Newbern, N.C. 3 items
Box 2 Folder e
Autograph book (1881-1883) of Lela Carr; The Gift Book (1907) pub. by Kleber Denmark (Jeweler and Optician) of Kinston, N.C.; pamphlet (undated) of by-laws and rules of order, probably belonging to the Farmers' Alliance; "Reform Club Constitution and By-Laws" (June 1887); Ormond Family genealogy (undated); Quarterly Report (9/30/1889) of the Greene County Farmers' Alliance; "Church Assessment for 1886" (1886); "Trinity College, N.C. Plan for Facilitating Admission to College" (undated); four "Reward of Merit" cards (undated); receipts (1870, 1881); composition by Fannie Ormond (undated); handwritten scripture John 5:24 (undated); correspondence (12/16/1890) to Yancy Ormond from R. H. Whitaker; and several envelopes (1890-1902, undated), including some from the North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance. 26 items
Box 3 Folder a
Cased ambrotype photograph (undated) of a man wearing a suit. 1 item
Box 3 Folder b
Tintype photograph with part of a case (undated). Image is no longer visible. 1 item
Box 3 Folder c
One-half of a photograph case with glass. Photograph is missing. (undated). 1 item
Box 3 Folder d
Cased tintype photograph (undated) of a woman wearing a dress. Case is in rough shape. 1 item
Box 3 Folder e
Cased tintype photograph of a woman. Image is dim. Only 1/2 of case is here. (undated). 1 item
Box 3 Folder f
Cased tintype photograph (undated) of an infant. 1 item
Box 3 Folder g
Cased daguerreotype photograph (undated) of a child. 1 item
Box 3 Folder h
Ambrotype photograph (undated) of a child. Case is missing. 1 item
Box 3 Folder i
Cased tintype photograph (undated) of Fannie Ormond. Most of case is missing. 1 item
Box 3 Folder j
Cased daguerreotype photograph (undated) of a man wearing a suit. One-half of case is missing. 1 item
Box 3 Folder k
Cased daguerreotype photograph (undated) of a girl. 1 item
Box 3 Folder l
Pieces of old photograph cases. (undated). 1 item
Box os1
Lenoir Co., N.C., deed (9/23/1869) between the sheriff and Needham Moore concerning Jesse Jackson land; indenture (11/29/1800) between William Ormond, Sr. and Watkins Ormond of Greene County, N.C.; Deed (1773 ?) granting land to William Ormond of Dobbs Co., N.C.; Deed (12/15/1778) granting land to William Ormond of Dobbs Co., N.C.; Memorandum (undated) of land purchased (1768-1784) by William Ormond with accompanying plat map; and Diploma (6/13/1878) of Yancey Ormond
Box 2 Folder f
Examples of early to mid 20th century portrait folder enclosures produced by local photographers in Baker's Studio in Greenville, Coble's Art Studio in Kinston, and Wootten-Moulton in New Bern, North Carolina.
Box 2 Folder g
Greene County, North Carolina, Guardian Accounts related to brothers Yancy Thomas Ormond and Wilbur Edwards Ormond, sons of Thomas C. Ormond, deceased, kept by Margaret A. Ormond from 1875 until her death in 1884. Guardian accounts also found for Wilber Edwards Ormond kept by his brother Yancy Thomas Ormond from 1884 to 1886 after Margaret A. Ormond's death.
Box 2 Folder h
Land Records, 1757-1875, for Greene, Beaufort, and Franklin counties, North Carolina.
Box 2 Folder i
Wills for William Ormond, Jr. (1804), Thomas C. Ormond (1875), and Elizabeth Edwards (1878).
Box 2 Folder j
Financial Records (1848-1865) including receipt (Carolina Female Seminary tuition), Confederate bond, estate record, record for sale of enslaved person named Charles (1848), and promissory notes.
Box 2 Folder k
Correspondence (1859, 1892) and name cards.
Box 2 Folder l
Family History Material related to the Edwards and Ormond families.
Box 2 Folder m
Writings, and the words to the song "North Carolina. Call to Arms" set to the air "The Old North State."
Box 2 Folder n
Religious writing.
Oversize Folder os2
Ten Dobbs County, North Carolina, land deeds (1768-1783) involving land owned by Lewis Williams, William Ormond, William Morris, William Curlee, Thomas Davis, John Tillman, and William Skinner.