2018-08 - News from the Carolina Room | Charlotte Mecklenburg Story

We welcomed our new archivist, Sydney Vaile, this month. She most recently was at Mt. Vernon, working with their collections, and has had experience in the National Archives in Washington as well. She got her library degree from the University of Maryland. Please stop by and introduce yourself, next time you visit the Carolina Room.

Did you ever hear that if someone did not do something, they might end up in the “Poor House?” Well, a “Poor House” was the way most counties in the country dealt with their indigent population, prior to Social Security benefits and other forms of government assistance. Mecklenburg County provided for their citizens in such a way, beginning in 1833. The Carolina Room has a new exhibit to showcase how we cared for our own. The most recent Mecklenburg County Home was located where the Carolinas HealthCare University (Atrium) and University City Library are, near the intersection of N. Tryon and W. T. Harris Blvd. The cemetery, for those residents who died while in the care of the county, is across the street in a grove of trees.

Since nursing homes, memory care units and treatment centers had not yet come of age, all residents were just indigent. Many had physical and mental health problems that led to their admission. Some married other residents, and others left with family members. We have a ledger for a limited time in the Carolina Room, that shows the dates of admission and release, or outcome of their stay. It was for men and women of all races, though segregated in their living spaces. Community groups visited, often at holidays, to bring treats and entertainment. Listen to Lois Yandle interview John Miller, the son of a former superintendent, who grew up at the Mecklenburg County Home, and observed the daily routines of his father and others working with the residents. To learn more, please visit

https://www.cmstory.org/exhibits/mecklenburg-county-poor-house-and-county-home-0

We recently received many years of Davidson College yearbooks. We already had most issues, that could be requested. However, this nice donation makes most years now available for browsing in the public area.

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These materials were added to our collection between 7/1/2018 and 7/31/2018.

Abraham Lincoln, 6 vol. set by Carl Sandburg
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of the So-Called Southern Confederacy (GA)
Annals of Sandy Spring or Twenty Years History of A Rural Community In Maryland (3 vols.)
Annotated Obituaries Pertaining to the People Of Madison Co., Arkansas 1920-1929
Annotated Obituaries Pertaining to the People Of Madison Co., Arkansas 1930-1939
Annotated Obituaries Pertaining to the People Of Madison Co., Arkansas 1940-1949
Annotated Obituaries Pertaining to the People Of Madison Co., Arkansas 1950-1959
The Baughman-Everhard Church Chippawa Township Wayne Co., OH, Records 1817-1871
The Big Sandy Valley (Kentucky)
The Biographical Annals of Ohio, 1902-1903
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio (Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, 1893)
The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge
Bruton Book Includes Brutons of Montgomery, Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties North Carolina
Bruton Families of Montgomery and Mecklenburg Counties North Carolina
Bryan Station Heroes and Heroines (KY)
Buyers’ Guide to Southern Hosier and Knitwear Manufacturers 1943-1944, 6th ed.
Camp Bowie, Fort Worth 1917-1918 (Texas, WW I, 36th Division, Army)
Carolina Camera (WBTV News)
Carthage-Smith County, TN Newspapers, Vol. 1: 1809-1913
Cemeteries of Auburn Township, (Sangamon Co., IL)
Cemetery Records of Bedford County Tennessee Revised (1985)
The Census of the United States, Union Co., KY; A List of Early Union Co. Pioneers; Rev. War Pensions of Union Co.; Index to Wills…1811-1815; An Index to Taxable Property of 1799 Now in Union Co.
The Centennial Celebration of the Foundation of the University of Maryland (1908)
Centennial History of Hardin County, Ohio (1933)
Centennial History of Licking County, Ohio (1876)
Chancery and Common Pleas Court Records, Fayette Co., OH 1828-1878
Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Master Plan Update (1985)
Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Master Plan Update (1986)
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Opportunity Task Force Report (3/2017)
Collin County, Texas, Families, Vol. 1
Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll, OH
Compendium of Historical Sources
Compendium of the 10th Census, (1880, 2 vols.)
The County of Highland, A History of Highland County, Ohio (1902)
Death Notices from the People’s Press (Salem, NC) 1851-1892
DeKalb County Cemeteries (TN)
DeKalb County Death Certificates 1904- 1925
DeKalb County Tennessee Wills, Vol. 2, 1854-1900
DeKalb County Tennessee Wills, Vol. 3, 1900-1934
DeKalb County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Records 1844-1892
Every Name Index to the 1896 Plat Book of Cottonwood County, Minnesota
First and Early Settlers of Hennepin Co., Minnesota
The Franklintonian, 1984-1986 (Franklin Co, OH)
The Garrison Church, Sketches of the History of St. Thomas’ Parish Garrison Forest, Baltimore Co., Maryland 1742-1852
Genealogical Records, Churches; San Hills Chapter DAR (Nebraska)
A Genealogist’s Workbook for The First One Hundred Year of Bowling Green, 1833-1933 (KY)
Georgetown and Scott County, Images of America Series (Kentucky)
A Glimpse at Owatonna and Steele County, Minnesota
Gone But Not Forgotten (Supplement to DeKalb County Cemetery Book)
Grayson Co., Kentucky Cemeteries, Vol. I
Grayson Co., Kentucky Cemeteries, Vol. II
Grayson Co., Kentucky Cemeteries, Vol. III
Hamilton Co., OH Burial Records, Vol. 15, Walnut Hills United Jewish Cemetery 1850-2002
High Point University, The Premier Life Skills University (2018)
A Historical Sketch of Mason County, Kentucky
History of Baltimore City and County, Part I (Maryland)
History of Baltimore City and County, Part II (Maryland)
History of Crawford County, OH and Representative Citizens
History of Cumberland, (Maryland)…Washington’s First Campaign…History of Braddock’s Expedition (1878)
History of Huron County OH, Its Progress and Development, Vol. II, (1909)
A History of Kentucky…Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers, Merchants, and other leading men, of all occupations and pursuits
A History of Knox County, Ohio From 1779 to 1862 (1862)
A History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, (1881)
The History of Massachusetts, Vol. 2; American Revolutionary War Series
The History of New-Hampshire, Vol. 1, 1784; Applewood’s Historiography Series
A History of The Early Settlement of Highland County, Ohio (1890)
A History of Wayne County, Nebraska
History of Logan County and Ohio, (1880)
History of Lower Scioto Valley, OH (1884)
History of Marion County, OH and Representatives Citizens (1907)
History of Medina County and Ohio
History of Ohio, A Rise and Progress of an American State (1912)
History of Portage County, Ohio, (1885)
History of Salem and the Immediate Vicinity, Columbiana Co., OH (1898)
History of Sandusky County, OH (1882)
History of Seward Co, Nebraska (1888)
History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers (Civil War)
History of the Upper Ohio Valley, Vol. II (1891)
History of Wayne Co., OH (1878)
Huntsville History and Cemetery Enumeration (Madison Co., Arkansas)
“I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You!!”; Comer’s My Name
An Illustrated History of the State of Washington (1893)
Index for the Washington County Section of Scharf’s History of Western Maryland, Vol. 2
Index of Carroll County Names, Carroll Co., Maryland
Index to Wills and Estates 1851-1900, Seneca Co., Ohio Probate Court
John McCorkle Akers, A Life of Enterprise & Service
Love Letters of Minnie Florence Bailey and Luther Franklin Comer, Sr. “Frank” (1919-1922)
Martin Co. Postal History (Minnesota; 1858-1941)
The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. XVIII (1916)
Membership Rolls, Marriage and Baptismal Records…First Methodist Church of Falls City, NE …1855
Mercer County Pennsylvania, Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. XIV
Minutes of the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Session of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1931)
National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars Incorporated, Lineage Book VIII, 1995-2001
Newspapers and Periodicals from Frankfort, Kentucky 1795-1945
Ohio Annals, Historic events of the Tuscarawas and Muskingum Valleys
Ohio Early State and Local History (1915)
Ohio Home of the Wright Brothers
The “Old Northwest” Genealogical Quarterly, 1905
The “Old Northwest” Genealogical Quarterly, 1906
The Original Relocation Guide, Charlotte NC Edition, Vol. 1, Issue 2
Planning Committee Response To The Airport Master Plan, May, 1987
Pre-1920 Obituaries of Madison County, Arkansas, Residents
Prince George’s County Maryland, Marriages and Deaths in Nineteenth Century Newspapers, Vol. I: A-J
Record of Marriages and Baptists of First Methodist Church, Omaha, Nebraska; First Presbyterian Church, Omaha, Nebraska; Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, Nebraska
Records of the First Baptist Church of Omaha, Nebraska
Records of the Recorder’s Office of Highland Co., OH (1805-1850)
Reinventing New London, Images of America Series (Connecticut)
Report of the Social Statistical of Cities (1880)
Report on Crime, Pauperism and Benevolence in the US at the 11th Census, 1890
The Romance of Mendota (Sibley House, first stone dwelling built in Minnesota)
Roster of Soldiers-Sailors and Marines Who Served in the War of the Rebellion, Spanish-American War and World War (Nebraska)
Royalty for Commoners, A Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward II, King of England, and Queen Philippa
Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (1899)
Smith County Tennessee, Bible and Tombstone Records With Some Church Minutes
Some Dayton Saints and Prophets (Ohio)
Some Early Lincoln Church records (Nebraska)
Southern Exposure, Vol. 1, No. 3 & 4
Southern Writers, A Biographical Dictionary
The Story of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry In The Civil War 1861-1864
Story of the Maumee Valley Toledo and The Sandusky Region, Vol. I (OH)
Story of the Maumee Valley Toledo and The Sandusky Region, Vol. II (OH)
Surrogate Court Index of Ontario, Canada 1859-1900, Vol. 22, Leeds & Grenville County
Tercentenary History of Maryland, Vol. IV
Trigg County History, Cadiz, Kentucky, Vol. Two 1987
A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County Ohio, Vol. I (1909)
A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County Ohio, Vol. II (1909)
Washington County Arkansas, Images of America Series
Washington, Arkansas: History on the Southwest Trail
Wayne Co., GA Marriage Records 1809-1880

Yearbooks

Agromeck, NC State University, Raleigh, NC; 1939, 1940, 1942
Alexander Graham Middle School, Charlotte, NC; 2009, 2010
Chanticleer, Duke University, Durham, NC; 1928, 1932, 1941, 1952, 1960
Clarion, Belmont High School, Belmont, NC; 1969
Eagle Spread, Northeast Junior High, NC; 1981-1983
Howitzer, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY; 1962, 1964
Patriot, Providence Christian School, Charlotte; 2004
Pemican, High Point High School, NC; 1946-1948
Spirit of ’85, Independence High School, Charlotte, NC; 1985
Spirit of ’86, Independence High School, Charlotte, NC; 1986
Yackety Yak, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC; 1960, 1976

Circulating Collection

Index to Marriages in The (Baltimore) Sun, 1851-1860; (Maryland)

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