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CRUMP/GARVIN FAMILY PAPERS

Correspondence, Papers, and Clippings, 1866-1985
Manuscript Collection MC 846
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THE CRUMP/GARVIN FAMILY

In 1866, Garvin Fitton's great-grandmother, Josephine Bonaparte Greenlee (1841-1920) of Harrison married her second husband, Colonel George J. Crump (1841-1928). Colonel Crump, lawyer and Confederate veteran, was a participant in the Brooks-Baxter War, and later became an Arkansas legislator in the House and Senate. From 1893-1897, he served in Fort Smith as a U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas. One of the Crumps four children, Mintie Helen (1869-1930), married Ford Morris Garvin (1860-1930) in 1886. Garvin, a native of Evansville, Indiana and graduate of Mt. St. Mary's College in Emmittsburg, Maryland, was a lawyer, banker, and mayor of Harrison.

THE COLLECTION

Papers and scrapbooks of the Crump and Garvin families of Harrison (Boone County), Arkansas, were donated by Garvin Fitton (1918- ) of Harrison on April 22, 1987.

The papers include correspondence, clippings, and a wedding book concerning the Crump, Garvin, and Fitton families.

Processed by Susan Lynn Parks, October, 1988. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

CONTENTS OF COLLECTION

Box 1
  1. Correspondence from Colonel George J. Crump to Josephine B. Greenlee Crump, Aug 25, 1866-Sept 18, 1880.
  2. Correspondence between Ford Morris Garvin and his father, Thomas Edgar Garvin, 1877-1880 and 1898, plus an essay on the "Battles of Trenton and Princeton," by Ford M. Garvin, 1899.
  3. Correspondence between Josephine and Mintie Crump, 1885-1894.
  4. Correspondence to and from David E. or Lulu Garvin Fitton, 1938-1939, 1948, 1958 and 1985.
  5. Ford Morris and Mintie Crump Garvin's Wedding Book. Contains correspondence and photographs, 1886 and 1894.
  6. David E. and Lulu Garvin Fitton's wedding announcement, 1911; article and photograph concerning the life of Josephine Crump, 1921; application to United Daughters of the Confederacy from Josephine Crump, n.d.; certificate to David E. Fitton from the Moving Picture Theatre Owners.
  7. Clippings, 1911, 1929, 1939, 1948 and n.d.
The following two scrapbooks are found on microfilm
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