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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hill and Davis Family Papers #4393, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Elizabeth Allen of Warrenton, N.C., in August 1984 and from Sarah Davis of Louisburg, N.C., in October 2001 (Acc. 99097 and Acc. 99098) and in October 2003 (Acc. 99430).

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The Addition of October 2003 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Best family
• Davis family.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fuller family.
• Fuller, Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley), 1847-1875.
• Hill family.
• King family.
• Long family.
• Louisburg College.
• Malone family.
• Methodists--North Carolina.
• Poets, American--North Carolina--19th century.
• Seawell family.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• Toole family.
• United States. Army Air Forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• Warrenton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• World War, 1939-1945--Africa, French-speaking West.
• World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

• Rebecca Pitchford Davis Papers (#328);
• Matthew Smart Davis Papers (#4125);
• Daniel Shine Hill Papers (#4834);
• Marion Stuart Davis Papers (#5073).

The persons represented in this collection are ancestors of the donors, Elizabeth Allen and Sarah Davis, who are first cousins.

The Reverend Daniel Shines (1759-1843) was a Methodist circuit rider in eastern North Carolina in the 1790s. He later settled as a minister in Warrenton, N.C. Evidence in the papers indicates that he married Sarah Richmond Long, widow of Gabriel Long and mother of Rebecca Wesley Long Hill (1791-1867), who married Charles Applewhite Hill.

Charles A. Hill (1784-1832) graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1816 and moved to Georgia with Rebecca. After several years there, Hill returned to North Carolina to become a Methodist minister and educator in Franklin County. He founded an academy at Midway, published a Latin grammar, and served as a state senator, devoting himself to the cause of public education.

Daniel Shine Hill (1812-1873), planter and son of Charles A. and Rebecca Hill, married Susan Erwin Toole (1815-1878), daughter of Geraldus Toole, a planter, and Elizabeth King Toole. Among the Hills' several daughters was Sarah Louisa Hill (1836-1931), who married Matthew S. Davis (1830-1906), head of the Louisburg Male Academy and president of its successor, Louisburg College. The Davises had six children. The oldest daughter, Florence, married Eugene S. Allen and was the mother of J. Edward Allen, author of some of the genealogical materials in the collection. The second daughter, Mary, served as president of Louisburg College from the time of her father's death in 1906 until 1918. She married Ivey Allen and was the mother of Elizabeth Allen, one of the donors of these papers. The third daughter, Mabel, never married; she served as librarian of Warren County; genealogy was a passion she shared with a remote relative, Nannie Seawell Boyd. One son, the Reverend Edward Hill Davis, served as a Methodist minister and the other son, Louisburg architect Marion Stuart Davis, married May Amanda Holmes and was the father of Sarah Davis, who is one of this collection's donors.

The Fuller branch of the family descended from Ann Long, who was another daughter of Gabriel Long (d. 1792) and Sarah Richmond Long (d. 1845). Ann married Jordan Thomas, and they had a daughter, Ann, who married merchant Jones Fuller (1808-1870). They had two children, poet and writer Edwin Wiley Fuller (1847-1876), who married Mary Elizabeth Malone, and Anna Richmond (d. 1934), who married James Ellis Malone. James and Elizabeth Malone were siblings. The King family appears to have become intertwined with the Hill and Davis family through the second marriage of Ann Thomas Fuller, who married William Richmond King after the death of her first husband, Jones Fuller.

Ruth Jenkins is related to the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. Best's connection to the family is through his mother, who descends from the Fuller-Malone branch of the Hill and Davis family.

Note: Most of this information is from material contained in the collection. The connections of Green Hill, Jr., John and Joel King, and the Reverend Daniel Shines with the Methodist Church are confirmed in references in The History of Methodism in North Carolina by W. L. Grissom (1905: The Publishing House of the M. E. Church (South), Nashville, Tenn.).

The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal items, genealogical material, printed items, and other items of the extended Hill and Davis families of Warrenton, N.C. Materials prior to 1867 concern the families' activities in the Methodist Church in eastern North Carolina. After 1867, the material relates to Louisa Hill Davis and her daughters; Louisburg Male Academy and Louisburg Female Academy and their successor institution, Louisburg College; and the genealogy of the Davis-Hill-Toole-King-Fuller-Long-Seawell family. The addition of October 2001 contains letters, 1933-1964, received by Ruth Jenkins, who became a member of the Fuller-Malone branch of the extended Hill and Davis family through her marriage to Edward Leigh Best. The bulk of these letters were written by Private George Shaw during his service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the United States and French West Africa. The addition of October 2003 contains family letters; financial materials; genealogical materials; and writings, including some of poet and novelist Edwin W. Fuller, of the Fuller branch of the extended Hill and Davis family.

Oversized papers in folder OP-4393/1.