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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Holliday and Pendleton Family Papers, #1741-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. J. T. Evans of Aberdeen, Miss., June 1950.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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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• Aberdeen (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• California--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Dixon family.
• Family--California--Social life and customs.
• Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Holliday family.
• Holliday, Moriah G., 1817-1896.
• Overland journeys to the Pacific--History--19th century.
• Pendleton family.
• Pendleton, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1824-1895.
• Speight, Jesse, 1795-1847.

Moriah G. Holliday was the wife of John Holliday and the daughter of Jesse Speight (1795-1847), a North Carolina state legislator and United States representative, later a United States senator from Mississippi. Mary E. Pendleton (fl. 1849-1854), of Aberdeen, Miss., was the wife of Joseph E. Pendleton and a cousin to members of the Holliday family.

The collection includes papers of the Pendleton family of Aberdeen, Miss., particularly letters, 1849-1854, to Mary E. Pendleton from Dixon relatives traveling to California and living in Marysville, Sacramento, and other places in north central California; a letter, 1886, to Moriah G. Holliday, Aberdeen, about her father, Jesse Speight; scattered Holliday and Pendleton family legal and business papers; and other items.