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NANNETTE ELIZABETH WILLIAMS ELSASS GENEALOGICAL PAPERS

Genealogical papers, letters, photographs, clippings, and other documents, ca. 1864-1981
Manuscript Collection MC 1343

The four family scrapbooks/albums pertain to members of the Darby-Delony-Lindsay-Purkins-Turner-Williams family of Hope, Arkansas. (See the Finding Aid to the Nannette Williams Elsass Family Papers--MC 806--for the family history background.) The albums contain created and collected genealogical material; family letters, ca. 1864-1981; greeting cards; announcements; obituaries; newspaper clippings; last will; indenture (1879); Journal of the Hempstead County Historical Society, Winter, 1985; family portraits; and photographs.

Note: The scrapbooks/albums were taken apart and the material was transferred to folders, while the original order within each album was maintained.

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, May 1996. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Contents of Collection (2 containers)

Box 1.

Genealogical material and photographs

• 1. Darby family. (Images 1-14)
• 2. Delony family. (Images 15-18)
• 3-5. Lindsay family. (Images 29-32)
• 6. Turner family.
• 7-8. Williams family. (Images 33-47)

Box 2

Genealogical material and photographs (con.t)

• 1-3. Williams family. (Images 48-86)

  Photographs (Darby, Delony, Lindsay, Turner, Williams and other related families)

• 4. Images 87-105.
• 5. Images 106-142.
• 6. Images 143-166.