Included are family and historical documents such as legal records, maps, family trees, correspondence, clippings, genealogical notes, and photographs, and artifacts from or pertaining to Enfield (Halifax County), North Carolina, Whitaker, Vinson, Harris, and Beavans families. Also included are drawings and articles related to The Holme (ancestral home of the Whitakers in England), information about Whitaker's Chapel, the writings of John W. McGwigan (author of weekly column "Ramblin" in the Enfield Progress), and William H. "Bill" Mann, Jr.'s work on the history of Enfield.
October 3, 2019, (unprocessed) 7.0 cubic feet; Included are family and historical documents such as legal records, maps, family trees, correspondence, clippings, genealogical notes, and photographs, and artifacts from or pertaining to Enfield (Halifax County), North Carolina, Whitaker, Vinson, Harris, and Beavans families. Also included are drawings and articles related to The Holme (ancestral home of the Whitakers in England), information about Whitaker's Chapel, the writings of John W. McGwigan (author of weekly column "Ramblin" in the Enfield Progress), and William H. "Bill" Mann, Jr.'s work on the history of Enfield. Gift of Anna Dougherty.
Gift of Anna Dougherty
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Genealogy re Whitaker Descendants
Photocopies of Will of Blanche Whitaker Beavans
Genealogy re David Clark Descendants
Scans of pages from Civil War diary of Capt. David C. Clark, Halifax County (NC) troops.
Whitaker Genealogy and Bible family records
Whitaker and related Cary Genealogy
Whitaker Photographs
Whitaker correspondence
Vinson, Harris, Hunter, and Whitaker Genealogy
Vinson, Harris, and Whitaker Correspondence
Vinson, Harris, Hunter, and Whitaker Photographs (includes 1 tintype)
Vinson, Harris, and unknown Photographs (includes a tintype inside archival housing)
Copies of William M. "Bill" Mann, Jr.'s "Old Enfield Papers"
Clippings related to the Whitaker and Clark families and other topics
Accounts/Inventory Ledger 1909-1925, 1945
Photograph of Beavans (?) house in Enfield, NC, negatives
Pocket notebooks of accounts probably for a drugstore 1893, 1895 (also includes remedies), 1909-1914
Deeds, Summons for Relief document, letter 1869, 1939, 1961, 1925
Man's wallet and contents: 3 indentures (1903, 1904, 1956 and 1926 blueprint survey of W. E. Beavans property
Magazines: The New Eclectic Magazine (1869), Life Magazine (1901), The State (1949) with articles about family members.
Clark family (Halifax County, NC) and Stanton family (VA and NC) genealogy notes and articles
Clippings related to the Clark family
Whitaker family photographs (also includes one 5" x 7" tintype)
Photographs of Whitaker family houses
Photographs and a negative
Photographs removed from large frames
Material related to Whitaker's Chapel including deeds, cemetery listings, and histories
Advertising fan for Tums and for W. E. Beavans, Druggist, Enfield, NC
Genealogical material related to the Sands family of Halifax County, NC
Genealogical and miscellaneous material
Beavans Genealogy and Bible family records
Exterior and interior images of Beavans Drug Store, Enfield, NC
Negatives for exterior and interior images of Beavans Drug Store, Enfield, NC
Photographs of William Eugene Beavans (?) and Samuel Clark Beavans (?).
Postcard views of Enfield, NC
Material found in Elizabeth Beavans's East Carolina Teachers College 1929 and 1930 yearbooks [yearbooks transferred to East Carolina University Archives].
Documents and photographs related to the 50th class reunion of the Class of 1939, Enfield High School in 1989; The Megaphone, Vol. 1, June, No. 9, put out by the Class of 1939.
Material related to 1975 Bicentennial Celebration, Enfield, NC
Photocopies of The Enfield Ledger and The Progress 1905 issues.
Enfield Wednesday Afternoon Study Club schedules for 1979-2016
Material related to the First Annual Enfield Peanut Festival 1987
Printout of Old Homes in Enfield, NC, compiled by Bobby E. Davis 7/3/2008; Enfield brochures and postcards.
1995 Directory of Enfield Methodist Church, Eden United Methodist Church, and Whitakers United Methodist Church
Correspondence and Photographs related to Civil War Battle of Cool Springs, VA, and participation of Beavans and Whitaker ancestors.
Halifax County deeds 1904, 1931
Whitaker Genealogy Printout by Cary H. Whitaker III
Whitaker Family Tree Printout by Cary H. Whitaker III
"Know Knots of Halifax County" by Young Writer's Camp August 1992
Postcards and issue of Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine (cover and date missing)
Advertising items for Beavans Drug Store (pill cases, mirrors, prescription records)
Photograph Album belonging to Emma D. Vinson of Brinkleyville NC and dated November 16th, 1881, (contains 7 tintypes among other images of the Harris Family); 3 cased daguerreotypes, 1 ambrotype, a tintype, and 2 cartes-de-viste, and 1866 New Testament given to Clifton W. Hunter by his mother in 1869.
Photograph Album of snapshots mostly from the 1910s and 1920s with few identifications; Account Book (1846-1852) which also lists individuals' monetary worth (including slaves), debts owed to a Whitaker estate, and has brief 1852 Post Office listings; Postcard Album with early 1900s greeting cards, advertising sample postcards, and travel views from many states
Nina Lee Whitaker (Beavans) High Point College diploma (1943); Elizabeth Beavans's 1928 Virginian Yearbook for State Teachers College (now Longwood University) in Farmville, VA; and the 1909 The Carolinian Yearbook for NC State Normal and Industrial College (now UNC at Greensboro).
1821 Holy Bible published by Daniel D. Smith--Whitaker family records removed at some point and replaced with photocopies
Account book for Beavans Drug Store, Enfield, NC
Holy Bible (A. J. Holman & Co. edition) with 1898 Pictorial Pilgrimage Through Bible Lands and 1901 Sunday School Teachers' Ready Reference Hand-Book; Oxford University Press (American Branch) Self-Pronouncing Edition of the Holy Bible with 1897 series of Plates Illustrating Biblical Versions and Antiquities
Newspaper Clippings displaying ads for Beavans' Drug Store and Whitaker Drug Co. of Enfield, NC; Newspaper article (1956) about and book cover for Rebel Boast by Manly Wade Wellman; July 14, 1911 issue of The Progress (Enfield newspaper); and issue No. 5 of Vol. 1 of the The Ivy Leaf published by Chas. M. Walsh, Manufacturer of Monuments, Crosses, Tablets, Tomb and Grave Stones.
Last issue of Enfield Progress (Oct. 28, 1976); Portions of issues (1977, 1979) of Halifax County This Week containing articles by John McGwigan and issue (April 5, 1979) documenting results of a tornado in Enfield, NC. [None of these issues are preserved on microfilm.]
Certificate re contributing to the Columbian Sunday School Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; photocopy of 1792 document appointing John Whitaker as Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No. 4 in the District of N.C.; photocopies of a list of Whitaker plats; damaged poster for outdoor drama First for Freedom (Halifax, N.C.); Sept. 1900 Special Autumn Fashion Number for The Ladies Home Journal; Historic Halifax Week Program (1976); Sept. 12, 1947 issue, April 29 and May 6, 1976 (Bicentennial) issues and Oct. 28, 1976 issue (last one published) of Enfield Progress newspaper; and clippings