Personal Records: Obituaries and other news Clippings, 1861 - 1960

This series consists mainly of correspondence with family and friends between 1832 and 1955, with the bulk of the correspondence spanning the 1830s-1890s. The series includes letters from Mary Lenoir, James Lenoir, and others written during the Civil War; letters to William S. Lenoir, Sr. at Greene Springs School for Boys in Alabama, and two letters from Methodist Bishop Robert Paine. The letters document daily life on the planation, including illnesses of the family members and slaves, status of the crops, and family news. There are also genealogical materials, postcards, clippings, items related to Whitman H. Lenoir’s service as a pilot during World War I, school notes from 1833 and a speech honoring the Confederacy, as well as yearbooks from Whitman H. Lenoir’s school in Tennessee and copies of Sterling P. Lenoir’s college yearbook entries. The miscellaneous items include a 1943 ration book for Ruth P. Lenoir.

This series also includes a transcript of the Lenoir Plantation Journal, found in a copy of C. V. Lavoisne et al. A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas… (1821). The original volume was returned to the Lenoir family after transcription. The journal comprises genealogical information, recipes for medicine and healing ointments, and other notes recorded by family members in the book, including Blanchard slave lists.