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Correspondence, Legal Documents, Receipts, Photographs, 1853-1919

Manuscript Collection 784

• About the Collection
• Contents of the Collection

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

The Lorna Lack Cates Papers were donated by Lorna Lack Cates of Leslie (Searcy County), Arkansas on November 3, 1987.

Lorna Lack Cates' collection serves as a record of her ancestors, specifically the Woolvertons and Halbrooks, who lived initially in Tennessee but eventually settled in Arkansas.  The orientation of the papers is commercial rather than personal, the relatively large number of receipts attesting to economic growth in the South in general and in Arkansas in particular during the second half of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth.

Materials in the collection include tax receipts, promissory notes, poll tax receipts, accounts receivable and paid, and other documents from Henry County, Tennessee and Van Buren and Conway Counties in Arkansas.  William Louis Woolverton's account book is included, as are teachers' contracts and contracts for farm and construction work.  A marriage license and a small collection of photographs supplement the collection.

Prepared by Janet G. Tucker, Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in June, 1988.
 

CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (81 items)

Series 1.  Papers (Box 1)

These papers consist of correspondence, receipts, an account book, and contracts belonging to the Woolverton family.

Box 1

 1.  Correspondence, 1867-1919.
 2. Receipts, 1853-1907.
 3. Account book, William Louis Woolverton, 1862-65.
 4. Contracts, 1866-75.
 
 The following item has been moved to Manuscript Oversize Box 1:

 Receipts, 1863-1905.

Series 2.  Photographs (Box 1)

Photographs in the present collection are of members of the Woolverton family.  Both Cornelious and Chris Woolverton were students at the Arkansas Industrial University.  All photographs are black and white.

Box 1
 
Folder 1.
 
 1. Corneilious Decalion Woolverton, 1885.

 2. Corneilious Decalion Woolverton, n.d.

 3. Corneilious or Chris Woolverton (?), n.d.

 4. Sarah Elizabeth Woolverton Halbrook, n.d.

 5. Alice Woolverton, daughter of Neil and Alice Woolverton, n.d.
 
 

 The following item has been moved to Manuscript Oversize Box 3:

 Photograph of William Louis Woolverton and his wife Letitia Goodjoin Woolverton.