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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Emma Maria Service Papers, #3375, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Loan 1958

Additional Descriptive Resources

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Laura Hart, May 2021

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Africa, West--History--To 1884.
• College students--Kentucky--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Commission merchants--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Georgetown College (Georgetown, Ky.)--Students--History--19th century.
• Hinds County (Miss.)--History--19th century.
• Hinds County (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Liberia--History--1847-1944.
• Missionaries--Africa, West--History--19th century.
• Montpelier Female Institute (Macon, Ga.)
• Payne, John, 1815-1874.
• Service family.
• Service, Emma Maria.
• Service, John Hugh James.
• Service, Martha Stackhouse Williford.
• Stackhouse family.
• Stackhouse, Samuel H.
• Teachers--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Wilford family.
• Williford, Martha.
• Williford, William S.
• Women missionaries--Africa--History--19th century.
• Women teachers--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

• George F. Palmes Papers (#3769), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Family correspondence, chiefly 1849-1888, of Emma Maria Service of Augusta, Ga., and her parents, John Hugh James Service and Martha Stackhouse Williford Service, and their children from previous marriages, including William S. Williford, commission merchant at Macon, Ga., and Martha Williford, teacher at Montpelier Institute near Macon and missionary, 1850-1874, in West Africa (at least partly in Liberia) under Episcopal Bishop John Payne, whom she married; and letters from members of the Stackhouse family of Hinds County, Miss. Correspondence concerns William Williford's business in Macon; Martha Williford's work as teacher and as missionary; life in Hinds County, especially during the Civil War; Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky., where Samuel H. Stackhouse was a student, 1860-1861; family activities; and other matters.

• Microfilm reels (M-3375/1-2)
• Image folder (PF-3375/1)