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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 35 items) |
Abstract | Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel was born in 1899 in Wadesboro, N.C. After attending Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., January-1916, she matriculated to Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C. She graduated in 1920 and moved with her family to Forest City, N.C., where she met Grover Cleveland McDaniel, whom she married in 1923. They had two sons, Grover Cleveland McDaniel Jr. and Andrew Holmes McDaniel. She spent the rest of her life in Forest City, where she was a homemaker, school teacher, member of the Forest City Woman's Club, and board member at the Mooneyham Public Library. She died in 1989. The collection consists of 30 diaries, 1915-1986, kept by McDaniel throughout her life. Entries are generally short and concern matters of daily life, such as her health, the weather, her friends and family, and day-to-day activities. Also included is a volume containing lists of Christmas presents given and received, 1948-1985; a folder of miscellaneous notes; and a CD-ROM containing transcriptions of the diaries and scans of related photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings, which was compiled by her son, Andrew Holmes McDaniel. |
Creator | McDaniel, Virginia Araminta Holmes, 1899-1989. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel was born in 1899 in Wadesboro, N.C., to Alice Dwiggins Holmes and Reverend Parker Holmes. She had three siblings: George Holmes, Frances Holmes McCausland, and Robert Nye Holmes. Her childhood was spent in North Wilkesboro, N.C., and Newton, N.C. After attending Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., January-May 1916, she matriculated to Salem College in Winston Salem, N.C. She graduated in 1920 and moved with her family to Forest City, N.C., where she met Grover Cleveland McDaniel, whom she married in 1923. They had two sons, Grover Cleveland McDaniel Jr. and Andrew Holmes McDaniel. She spent the rest of her life in Forest City, where she was a homemaker, school teacher, member of the Forest City Woman's Club, and board member at the Mooneyham Public Library. She died in 1989.
Back to TopThe collection consists of 30 diaries, 1915-1986, kept by Virginia Araminta Holmes McDaniel from age 16 until three years before her death in 1989. During this time, she was a student at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., and at Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C.; moved with her family to Forest City, N.C.; and met and married Grover Cleveland McDaniel with whom she had two sons. Entries are generally short and concern matters of daily life in Forest City, including comments about health, weather, friends and family, and day-to-day activities as homemaker, teacher, club woman, and local library board member. Also included is a volume containing lists of Christmas presents given and received, 1948-1985; a folder of miscellaneous notes; and a CD-ROM containing transcriptions of the diaries and scans of related photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings, which was compiled by her son, Andrew Holmes McDaniel.
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