Mary F. Carter Historical and Genealogical Research Collection
Sullivan County Manuscript Collection 0087
Archives and History Division
Sullivan County Department of Archives and Tourism
3425 Highway 126, Suite 100
Blountville, Tennessee 37617


TITLE
Mary F. Carter Historical and Genealogical Research Collection
(Deaccessioned Spring '23)

COLLECTION NUMBER
Sullivan County Manuscript Collection 0087.


EXTENT
Indefinite loan, open-ended.


CREATOR
Mary F. Carter


LANGUAGE
Material in English.


REPOSITORY
Archives and History Division, Sullivan County Department of Archives and Tourism, Blountville, Tennessee.


PROVENANCE
The Mary F. Carter Collection MSS 0087, is primarily related to historical and genealogical research conducted by Mrs. Carter over a 40-year span.


COPYRIGHT STATUS
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.


PROCESSING HISTORY
Shelia Steele Hunt processed the collection and developed the finding aid in September 2012.


ACCESS AND RESTRICTIONS
There are no restrictions on use of this manuscript collection for research purposes. It is the responsibility of the individual user to ascertain copyright restrictions, obtain permissions and to prepare proper citation and credit statements. The researcher assumes all legal responsibility for observing laws of copyright and common law literary rights.


COLLECTION CITATION
This collection should be cited as:
Mary F. Carter Historical and Genealogical Research Collection, MSS 0087, Archives and History Division, Sullivan County Department of Archives and Tourism, Blountville, Tennessee.


SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Mary F. Carter Collection MSS 0087, is primarily related to historical and genealogical research conducted by Mrs. Carter over a 40-year span. The collection contains family research notes; obituaries; photographs; copies of deeds, wills, and marriages; family group sheets; pedigree charts; memorial cards; books; Bibles; photographs; and old ledgers.  Of particular importance to the collection are folders pertinent to special subjects, such as Holston School, Holston Institute Community, Hawkins County, Sullivan County, Carter County, Washington County.  The collection additionally contains information on area schools and churches. On loan, the collection is "open-ended" and will have additions in future.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Mary F. Carter was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee to Verlin Edgar Bowery (1893-1968) and Vergie Mary Ann Little (1896-1982). Mrs. Carter has conducted historical and genealogical research in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia for more than 40 years.  She held several offices over recent years such as  President, Regent and Registrar for various organizations including the Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Colonial Dames XVII Century, Daughters of 1812 and others.

SUBJECTS
Sullivan County (Tenn.)--Genealogy.
Family--Tennessee-History.
Genealogy.


BOX LIST

• Adams
• Addington
• Agee
• Akard
• Alley
• Allison
• Anderson
• Andrew
• Arnold
• Bacon
• Bailey-Bailie
• Baker
• Ball
• Barb
• Bare
• Barger
• Barker
• Barker-Miller
• Barnes
• Barnett
• Bates
• Bays
• Bean
• Bevins-Morgan
• Bishop

• Biddle
• Blackmore
• Blair
• Bledsoe
• Bond
• Bondurant
• Booher
• Bowery
• Bowlin
• Boyd
• Bragg
• Branstetter
• Bray
• Brickey
• Bridwell
• Brown
• Bruce
• Bullis
• Butler
• Cain
• Campbell
• Carroll
• Carroll, George
• Carroll, William

• Carter
• Chase
• Chavis
• Childress
• Cleek
• Clayman
• Cline
• Cock
• Coffman
• Cole
• Coley
• Collins
• Conkin
• Cook
• Cookenour
• Cookenour-Poff
• Cooper
• Cox
• Crabtree-Maddox
• Crain
• Crawford
• Cross
• Crouch
• Culbertson
• Cunningham
• Curtis
• Darnell
• Darter
• Davidson
• Deck
• Dennison
• Depew

• Dickson
• Dillow
• Donelson
• Doran
• Dougherty
• Dryden
• Duncan
• Dyer
• Dykes
• Easley
• East
• Elliott
• England
• Erwin
• Fansler
• Faust
• Fields
• Fink
• Flanary
• Fleenor
• Ford
• Fox

• Fraley-Vicars
• Frazier
• Freeman
• Freeman, David
• Freeman, Lemuel
• Fugate
• Fulkerson
• Gaines
• Gammon
• Gardner
• Goddard-Garner
• Godsey
• Good
• Greear
• Gross
• Guinn
• Hall
• Hamilton
• Hancher
• Harbour
• Hargis
• Harkleroad
• Harr
• Hart
• Hartgrove
• Hawk
• Hawley

• Head
• Hendrickson
• Hensley
• Hickam
• Hicks
• Hite
• Hobbs
• Hodge(s)
• Holt
• Honaker
• Hoove
• Hoover
• Horn(e)
• Horton
• House
• Huffman
• Hunt

• Hurst
• Isley
• Jackson
• Jenkins
• Jesse(e)
• Johnson
• Jones
• Kendall-Knowles
• Ketron-Kettenring
• Kilgore
• Kincheloe
• Kindle-Roach
• King
• Kitzmiller
• Kuhn
• Lady
• Lane
• Larkins
• Lawson
• Lemons
• Leonard
• Light
• Lincoln
• Little
• Long
• Looney, Moses
• Lunsford
• Maddox
• Malone
• McClain
• McClellan-Carter
• McDavid
• McMurray
• McNutt
• Mead(e)
• Mellon(s)
• Meredith
• Milhorn
• Millard
• Miller
• Miller, Daniel
• Minga

• Mitchell
• Moody
• Morrell
• Morris
• Mowdy
• Muncey-Munsey
• Nash
• Nelms
• Newland
• Nickels
• Osborn(e)
• Overbay
• Owens
• Palmer
• Parker
• Pectol
• Peltier
• Pendleton

• Penley
• Perry
• Peters
• Pettyjohn
• Pickens
• Poe
• Poore
• Pope
• Porterfield
• Portram
• Purcell
• Pyle-Pile
• Quillen
• Ragle
• Reynolds
• Rhoton
• Robinette
• Rodefer
• Rogers-Rodgers
• Rogers, Nicholas
• Roller
• Ross
• Royston
• Ryden-Rydings
• Sampson
• Sanders
• Seaver
• Sharp

• Shipley
• Shipley, Asa
• Shipley, Joshua
• Shoemaker
• Simpson
• Slaughter

• Smith
• Smith, Una Dean
• Snapp
• Spahr
• Spear(s)-Speer(s)
• Spencer
• Starnes
• Steffey
• Stewart
• Strickler
• Susong
• Taylor
• Templeton
• Thacker
• Thompson
• Tipton
• Titsworth
• Tunnell
• Tyler

• Vicars
• Wagner
• Warren
• Weaver
• Wells
• Whaley
• White
• Whitlock
• Widner
• Wilcox
• Williams
• Williams, Thomas and Sally Buckner
• Wilson
• Wolford
• Wood(s)
• Wright
• Zimmerman
• Zion

• Hawkins County, Tennessee - Research Notes and Miscellany
• Histories - Settlement of Southwest Virginia, 1400-1800
• Maps
• Pedigree Charts
• Scott County, Virginia - Attorneys, 1897
• Scott County, Virginia - Churches - Addington Frame Church
• Scott County, Virginia - Churches - Methodist Episcopal
• Scott County, Virginia - Court of Law and Chancery, 1839
• Scott County, Virginia - Death Register, 1874-1884, facsimile 
• Scott County, Virginia - Land - Survey Book (index)
• Scott County, Virginia - Physicians, 1897
• Scott County, Virginia - Registerof Deaths
• Scott County, Virginia - Research Notes and Miscellany
• Scott County, Virginia - Schools - Authorities, 1897
• Scott County, Virginia - Schools - Shoemaker College

• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Beeler
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Bethel Methodist Episcopal
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Beulah
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Blountville
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Childress-Galloway
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Conkin
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Emory
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Kendricks Creek
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Mount Lebanon (Colonial Heights)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - New Bethel
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Pleasant Hill
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Poore
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Pyle
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Rhea (Fall Creek area)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Shipley
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Shipley-Blevins
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Cemeteries - Weaver
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Bethel Church Records and Minutes, 1875-1921 (not inclusive)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Blountville Methodist Church
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Blountville Presbyterian Church
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Cassidy United Methodist Church
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Cross United Methodist Church
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Eakins Chapel
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Eaton's Ridge Meeting House
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Emory United Methodist Church
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Fairview Methodist Church (Kingsport)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - First Baptist Church, Blountville
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Holston Grove
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Immanuel Lutheran
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Latture's
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - New Haven Lutheran
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Oak Hill M.E.C.S., 11th Civil District
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Paperville
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Reedy Creek Presbyterian Church
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Solomon's Temple
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - St. Luke's United Methodist
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Churches - Wheeler United Methodist Church

• Sullivan County, Tennessee - City Directories - Bristol, 1896-1897 (part)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Civil War
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Communities - Arcadia-Bloomingdale
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Communities - Boatyard, Ledger, 1817 (facsimile)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Communities - Holston Institute
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Ferries - Shipley Ferry
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Land - Sullivan-Carter property line, 1871
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Lineage - United Daughters of the Confederacy, King's Boatyard Chapter
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Railroads and Bridges
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Research Notes and Miscellany
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Roads and Overseers
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Schools
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Schools - Dunlap Academy
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Schools - Holston School
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Schools - Kings School
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Schools - Lady's Academy
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Taxes - Assessor's Books, 1880 (facsimile)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee - Taxes - Delinquent, 1861-1864 (facsimile)
• Washington County, Tennessee - Formation
• Washington County, Tennessee - Historic Sites - Tipton-Haynes
• Wise County, Virginia - Schools - Trace Fork

• Item 1 - Cora M. Agee, New Testament (1897)
• Item 2 - Myrtle Agee, New Testament (1909)
• Item 3 - Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1897)
• Item 4 - Ethel Agee, Little Book on Devotion (1903)
• Item 5 - Nottingham Church, Holy Bible (1958)
• Item 6 - William Milburn Dye, High Lights and Travels of a Southern Highlander (Autobiography of Rev. William Milburn Dye) (1941)
• Item 7 - N. D. Barnes School Ledger 1892-1893 (includes notes on Sun Rise Literary Society), 18th Civil District
• Item 8 - B. Cross Business Ledger, 1956-1968

Box 17 - Bible Records and Family Records

• Agee-Mellons
• Bacon-Irvin
• Bacon-Murray
• Bacon-Zimmerman
• Baker-Smithey
• Barb-Leonard
• Baker-Fields
• Barnes-Adams
• Barnes-Deck
• Barnes-Holt
• Beeler
• Bishop
• Blair
• Bledsoe
• Bondurant-Porter
• Booher-Pippin
• Bowery-Barnes
• Bowery-Barnes
• Bowery-Ford
• Bowery-Harbour
• Bowery-Hunt
• Bowery-Rogers
• Bowery-Snapp
• Bowery-Snodgrass
• Bowling-Weathering
• Boyd
• Boyd-Depew
• Bridwell-Holt
• Browder-Barr
• Brown
• Brown-Ash
• Brown-Wakefield
• Burton-Easley-David
• Bushong
• Bushong-Keene
• Carroll-Hall
• Carter
• Carter-Giles
• Carr-Harris
• Childress
• Childress-Gregg
• Cleek-Seaver
• Coley-Vineyard
• Collins
• Combs-Perry
• Conley
• Copeland
• Cox
• Cox (William)
• Cox-Osborne
• Crawford (John)
• Crawford (William)
• Curtis
• Curtis-Reynolds
• Dickson-Shipley
• Dishner-Kendrick
• Doane-Barnes
• Dolen
• Droke
• Droke-Johnson
• Droke-Wolford
• Easley-David
• Edgeman
• Erwin-Barnes
• Faust-Bohannon
• Fitch-Bowlin
• Fleenor
• Fleenor-Brown
• Ford-Branstetter
• Ford-Hawk
• Ford-McCulley
• Fugate-Carter
• Fulkerson
• Fuller-Browder
• Galloway-Erwin
• Gammon-Rutledge
• Garber-Stauffer
• Garrett
• Gobble
• Good-Carlton
• Good-Horn
• Goodson
• Gray-Bowery
• Groves-Baker
• Gunnings-James
• Hall-Irvin
• Harr-Deck
• Harr-Snapp
• Hauk-Smith
• Hawk-Horne
• Hawley-Roller
• Hayes
• Hensley-Smith
• Hickam
• Hickam-Bolton-Spencer
• Hilton-Jesse
• Hiter-Goodwin
• Holt
• Horn-Harr
• Hughes-Devault
• Hunt
• Hunt-Deck
• Isley-Hawk
• Justis-Garber
• King-Cochran
• Kitzmiller-Cox
• Lady-Brown
• Lane-Cox
• Lane-Wolfe
• Light-Viles
• Little-Barnes
• Lyon
• Mauk-Latture
• McConnell
• McCulley-Cox
• McCulley-Lady
• McMurray
• Millard-Blevins-Kitzmiller
• Miller-Houser
• Miller-Taylor-Deck
• Moody
• Moody (Ralph Moody)
• Moody-Childress
• Moody-Harrell
• Moody-Hilton (John Moody)
• Moody-Hilton (Valentine Moody)
• Moody-Shoemaker
• Moore
• Odell
• Odell-Blevins
• Osborne
• Owens
• Owens-Fish
• Payne-Erwin
• Pearson
• Pecktol
• Pecktol (Samuel)
• Peeble-Sheetz
• Pettyjohn-Erwin
• Pippin-Miller
• Poore-Childress
• Price
• Pullon-McLain
• Quillen-Jenkins
• Reynolds-Smith
• Rodgers-Smith-Hall
• Rogers-Sampson
• Roller-Bowery
• Roller-Hayes
• Roller-Sampson
• Rutherford-Holt
• Shipley-Fansler
• Shipley-Mauk
• Showalter-Price
• Sims-Agnor
• Slaughter-Boyd
• Slaughter-Childress
• Smith-Bowery
• Smith-Larkey
• Snodgrass-Eller
• Steadman-Shipley
• Strickler-Smith
• Sumpter
• Taylor-Spangler
• Vance-Hatcher
• Vaughan-Wothum
• Ward
• Whaley-Bacon
• Willard-Murray
• Wine-Holt
• Wolfe
• Wolfe-McKenzie-Kerr
• Wolfe-Vaughn
• Wolford-Craft
• Wolford-Hancher
• Wood-Taylor

• Book 1, 1901-1911
• Book 2, 1912-1923
• Book 3, 1924-1929
• Book 4, 1930-1942

(other items in processing)




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