Elmore--Croom Family Photographs of Eastern North Carolina

circa 1870s - 1980s
Manuscript Collection #1429
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Creator(s)
Elmore, William E. "Mickey"
Physical description
2 Cubic Feet, 2 document cases, 1 shoebox, and 2 flat boxes, consisting of photographs, photograph albums, tintypes, studio portraits and snapshots
Preferred Citation
Elmore--Croom Family Photographs of Eastern North Carolina (#1429), 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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This collection contains photographs (mostly snapshots, also tintypes, studio portraits, and 2 photograph albums) mainly related to the Croom and Smith families of Lenoir County and the Elmore and Rouse families of Lenoir and Wayne Cos., North Carolina. Also included are images for people in related families of eastern North Carolina and the Cole, Meeks, Rouse, Infinger, Vallotton, and Thompson families in Georgia. Most images are identified.

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Custodial History

June 15, 2023, (unprocessed), 1.5 cubic feet; This collection contains photographs (mostly snapshots, also tintypes, studio portraits, and 2 photograph albums) mainly related to the Croom family of Lenoir County and the Elmore family of Lenoir and Wayne Cos., North Carolina. Also included are images for people in related families of eastern North Carolina and the Thompson family in Georgia. Most images are identified. Gift of William E. "Mickey" Elmore.

Source of acquisition

Gift of William E. "Mickey" Elmore

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Box 1 Folder a Photographs of William Cyrus Croom and Gertrude "Gertie" Elizabeth Thompson Croom
Box 1 Folder b Black and white photographs of the children of William Cyrus Croom and Gertrude "Gertie" Elizabeth Thompson Croom and their house and land at Sandy Bottom, Lenoir County, North Carolina.
Box 1 Folder c Color photographs of the children of William Cyrus Croom and Gertrude "Gertie" Elizabeth Thompson Croom.
Box 1 Folder d Photographs of the children and grandchildren of Quincy A. Smith and Mamie Croom Smith, and the children of Lafayette "Fate" Smith and Nannie Croom Smith. Mamie and Nannie Croom were sisters and Quincy and Fate were brothers.
Box 1 Folder e Photographs of Benjamin Franklin Hill III, the son of Benjamin Franklin Hill, Jr., and Elizabeth "Lib" Smith Hill. Photographs also show Lib Hill, Ruby Smith, and Lafayette Smith.
Box 1 Folder f Photographs of Lee Moore and Kathleen Smith Moore and their son Larry.
Box 1 Folder g Photographs of Milton Carraway Croom and Marie Askew Croom and their daughter Doris
Box 1 Folder h Photographs of "Matt" Raymond Moore and Tabitha "Tabb" Croom Moore and their children and grandchildren
Box 1 Folder i Homecoming (1952?) for Marvin Moore, from his Army service in Korean War, held at the home of Gertrude "Trudie" Elizabeth Croom Elmore in Moss Hill, Lenoir County, North Carolina.
Box 1 Folder j Photographs of Charles "Charlie" Wesley Croom and his children.
Box 1 Folder k Photographs of Rebecca Croom Fordham and her children and grandchildren and sister-in-law Lena Fordham Davenport. Also Tabitha "Tabb" Croom Moore and her son Marvin Moore.
Box 1 Folder l Photographs of the children and grandchildren of Tabitha Ann Temperance Cole (Thompson) Infinger and Charles Wesley Infinger.
Box 1 Folder m Photographs of Cary Marvin Infinger's children by his wives Mamie Dean McDonald Infinger and Hattie Ann Pattillo Infinger.
Box 1 Folder n Photographs of Samuel Jacob Nettles Brown and Mamie Tabitha Infinger Brown and their children and grandchildren.
Box 1 Folder o Photographs of "Bula" Irene Infinger Jones and John Caldwell Jones and their children.
Box 1 Folder p Photographs of "Ada" Frances Infinger Haddock and Alva White "A.W." Haddock and their children and grandchildren
Box 1 Folder q Photographs of Charles "Charlie" Leander Conley and Margaret "Maggie" Corrine Infinger Conley and their children
Box 1 Folder r Photograph of Macon Cauley (friend and neighbor of Wm. C. and Gertrude Thompson Croom, Sandy Bottom, Lenoir County, North Carolina)
Box 2 Folder a Photographs of the children of William Allen Croom and Anne Mariah Jackson Croom
Box 2 Folder b Photographs of Jesse Jackson II and daughters "Cattie" Susan Catherine Jackson (Moore) Parrott and Anne Mariah Jackson Croom
Box 2 Folder c Photographs of Henry Wesley Thompson and his wife Tabitha Ann Temperance Cole Thompson. Also Henry Wesley Thompson's gravesite in Ware County, Georgia.
Box 2 Folder d Photograph of Phillip Cole pointing out the gravesite of Wesley Cole near Waresboro, Georgia.
Box 2 Folder e Photographs of the gravesites of Gertie Thompson Croom, and Willie C. Croom (or possibly their son William Jesse Croom).
Box 2 Folder f Photographs related to the Croom Family Reunion (1930s, 1980), and to the Major Croom float in Kinston, North Carolina's Bicentennial Parade in 1963.
Box 2 Folder g Photographs of several Croom family members: Dorothy Gwendolyn Croom, Mary Cauley Moore, Geraldine Croom and Willard Donald "Buddy" Croom, Vivian Croom, Selma Croom, Jesse Jackson Croom, and Charles Sheppard Croom. Also includes photograph of the grandchildren of Jack and Rebecca Jarman Vause (Rebecca Vause's mother was Sadie Croom Jarman and Sadie's father was Seth Croom), and a photograph of sisters Rachel Croom Holland and Bettie Croom Taylor with their half-sister Elsie Croom Stroud and their brother Kleber Croom's wife Carlene Elmore Croom.
Box 2 Folder h Photograph of Isaac Croom of Alabama (he was born in Lenoir County, North Carolina).
Box 2 Folder i Photographs of Crooms and Elmores together at activities because they were neighbors.
Box 2 Folder j Photographs of Gertrude "Trudie" Elizabeth Croom Elmore
Box 2 Folder k Photographs of Raymond Rouse Elmore
Box 2 Folder l Photographs of Raymond Rouse Elmore and Gertrude "Trudie" Elizabeth Croom (Elmore)
Box 2 Folder m Photograph of hired hand on the Elmore Farm at Moss Hill, Lenoir County, North Carolina, 1948.
Box 2 Folder n Photographs of farmhouse and farm items on the Elmore Farm, Moss Hill, Lenoir County, North Carolina.
Box 2 Folder o Photocopy of 1429-b3-i1 (Collection 1429, box 3, item 1) Gertrude "Trudie" Elizabeth Croom (Elmore) Photograph Album (with extra information provided by William E. "Mickey" Elmore).
Box 2 Folder p Loose photographs from 1429-b3-i1 (Collection 1429, box 3, item 1) Gertrude "Trudie" Elizabeth Croom (Elmore) Photograph Album.
Box 2 Folder q Photocopy 1429-b3-i2 (Collection 1429, box 3, item 2) Gertrude "Gertie" Elizabeth Thompson Croom Photograph Album (with extra information provided by William E. "Mickey" Elmore).
Box 2 Folder r Loose Photographs from 1429-b3-i2 (Collection 1429, box 3, item 2) Gertrude "Gertie" Elizabeth Thompson Croom Photograph Album.
Box 2 Folder s Large tintype of Henry Wesley Thompson and his wife Tabitha Ann Temperance Cole Thompson.
Box 2 Folder t Lucy Pickett Denny and sister Mabel Pickett Camenzula (raised in Lenoir County, North Carolina, but moved away from the area). Lucy was a good friend of Trudie Croom Elmore.
Box 2 Folder u Photograph of a Meeks family member in Georgia.
Box 3 Item 1 Photograph Album belonging to Gertrude "Trudie" Elizabeth Croom Elmore
Box 3 Item 2 Photograph Album belonging to Gertrude "Gertie" Elizabeth Thompson Croom.
Box 4 Tintypes from the Thompson family of Georgia, Croom family of Eastern North Carolina, and the Elmore and Rouse families of Lenoir and Wayne Counties, North Carolina. Included are Henry Netwood Croom, William Cyrus Croom and wife Gertrude "Gertie" E. Thompson Croom, Henry Phineas Croom, Charlie Cole Thompson and sister Gertrude Elizabeth Thompson (later Croom), Esdras Elmore, Thomas Everett Elmore and sister Louisa Virginia Elmore Rouse, John Jackson Barwick and wife Frances Ann Rouse Barwick, Wiley Rouse and children Alonzo "Lon" Rouse and Myrtilla Calvene Rouse Elmore, Ethelbert Elmore Sr., and Laura Rouse Sutton among others.
Box 5 Folder a Identifications and extra information re tintype images of Crooms and Thompsons in collection 1429, box 4.
Box 5 Folder b Identifications and extra information re tintype images of Elmores and Rouses in collection 1429, box 4.
Box 5 Folder c Photographs of Isaac "Lee" Churchill and his wife "Pattie" Frances Elmore Churchill and relatives.
Box 5 Folder d Photographs of Harold Elmore and his wife Emma Grady Elmore and family.
Box 5 Folder e Photographs of Jeremiah Packer Elmore and first wife Elizabeth Pate Elmore and second wife Mary Thomas Scott Elmore and families.
Box 5 Folder f Photographs of Joel Elmore and his wife Martha "Patsy" Sutton Parks Elmore and their children.
Box 5 Folder g Photographs of Joel Hardy Elmore and wife Fannie R. Rouse Elmore and family.
Box 5 Folder h Photographs of John James Elmore and wife Mary Jane Ivey Elmore.
Box 5 Folder i Photographs of Paul Theron Elmore and wife Hattie Jones Hardy Elmore. Also includes Wiley "Joel" Rouse.
Box 5 Folder j Photographs of Richard Elmore and relatives.
Box 5 Folder k Photographs of Thomas "Edgar" Elmore and wife Delilah "Lila" Smith Elmore and family.
Box 5 Folder l Photographs of Elmore, Thomas Everett and wife Myrtilla "Myrtie" Calvene Rouse Elmore.
Box 5 Folder m Photographs of Elmore, Thomas Everett and wife Myrtilla Calvene "Myrtie" Rouse Elmore and family
Box 5 Folder n Photographs of Gerrans, Alfred Howard and wife Myrtilla Aepulo "Eppie" Elmore Gerrans and family.
Box 5 Folder o Photographs of Hardy, Oscar and wife Lola Virginia Rouse Hardy
Box 5 Folder p Photographs of Ivey Family members
Box 5 Folder q Photographs of Parks, Dempsey Wood and wife Bettie Williams Parks. [Dempsey Parks is Joel Elmore's half brother.]
Box 5 Folder r Photographs of Rackley, Spencer Relmond Sr. and wife Aepula "Eppie" Elmore Rackley and family.
Box 5 Folder s Photographs of "Richard" Nathan Tyndall, Sr. and wife "Ruth" Mildred Elmore and family.
Box 6 Folder a Photographs of "Eric" Alonzo Rouse and wife Irene "Ray" Hardy Rouse and family.
Box 6 Folder b Roscoe Rouse and wife Minnie Estelle Corbett Rouse and family. Also includes a 1915 photograph of a Coca-Cola advertising wheelbarrow used in Valdosta, Georgia.
Box 6 Folder c Photographs of Thomas Arthur Rouse and wife Mary "Mollie" Kinsey Rouse and family. [Parents of Roscoe Rouse who moved to Valdosta, Georgia.]
Box 6 Folder d Photographs of Wiley Rouse and first wife Frances Ann Jones Rouse and family and his second wife Elizabeth "Betsy" Grady Becton Rouse.
Box 6 Folder e Photographs of Wiley Winsett Rouse and wife Susan Frances Oast Rouse.
Box 6 Folder f Photograph of house belonging to Minnie M. Nunn Byrd and husband Louis Abner Byrd in Mt. Olive, Wayne County, North Carolina. [Minnie's parents were Ellen "Edmonia" Rouse and William F. Nunn.]
Box 6 Folder g Photographs of related Rouse, Jones, and Whitfield Families. [Children of James G. Whitfield and wife Bessie Lenoir Elmore Whitfield; Louisa Virginia "Lou" or "Lula" Elmore Rouse; Woodrow Wilson Jones; LeRoy (Roy) Rouse and his 2 sons Richard and Roscoe.]
Box 6 Folder h Unidentified photographs of Elmores and Rouses.
Box 6 Folder i Photograph of Benjamin Franklin Sutton of Bucklesberry neighborhood, Lenoir County, North Carolina.
Box 6 Folder j Photographs of Joseph "Joe" Edward Vallotton and wife Mattie Rose Rouse Vallotton and family.
Box 6 Folder k Photographs of Whitfield family members of Lenoir County, North Carolina.
Box 6 Folder l Photographs of Bill Bailey (manager of Nacombson's Department Store in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina); and Rev. Creasy K. Proctor (head of Oxford Orphanage).