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Collection Number: 00822-z

Collection Title: Hermione Ross Walker Papers, 1830-1940.

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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.

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Abstract Hermione Ross Walker was the daughter of Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929) and his first wife, Anne Roulhac Rose Ross (1850-1888). Anne Roulhac Rose Ross was the daughter of Simri Rose (1799-1869), a pioneer citizen of Macon, Ga., and Lavinia E. Blount Rose. The collection contains typed transcriptions and microfilm (originals returned to private owner) of correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of related families centered in Macon, Ga. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Simri Rose (1799-1869), Macon editor, and his diary of travel in the North, 1830; letters of and about Lieutenant William R. Ross, (died 1863), 66th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America; diaries and poems, 1861, 1867, 1869, of Anne Roulhac Rose (Mrs. Edgar A.) Ross (1850-1888), of Macon, chiefly concerning her feelings and her social life; memoirs of Reconstruction by Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929); other family correspondence; and other items.
Creator Walker, Hermione Ross



Rose, Simri, 1799-1869.



Ross, Anne Roulhac Rose, 1850-1888.



Ross, Edgar A., 1850-1929.



Ross, William R., d. 1863.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains microfilm copies of original physical documents that are not owned by the Library or stored in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Hermione Ross Walker Papers, #822-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. Benjamin Pressley (Hermione Ross) Walker in 1944.
Location of Originals
Originals returned to private owner.
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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton, Adam Fielding, and Jodi Berkowitz, August 2010

Updated by: Laura Hart, June 2021

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.

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Hermione Ross Walker was the daughter of Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929) and his first wife, Anne Roulhac Rose Ross (1850-1888). Anne Roulhac Rose Ross was the daughter of Simri Rose (1799-1869), a pioneer citizen of Macon, Ga., and Lavinia E. Blount Rose.

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The collection contains typed transcriptions and microfilm (originals returned to private owner) of correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of related families centered in Macon, Ga. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Simri Rose (1799-1869), Macon editor, and his diary of travel in the North, 1830; letters of and about Lieutenant William R. Ross, (died 1863), 66th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America; diaries and poems, 1861, 1867, 1869, of Anne Roulhac Rose (Mrs. Edgar A.) Ross (1850-1888), of Macon, chiefly concerning her feelings and her social life; memoirs of Reconstruction by Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929); other family correspondence; and other items.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

Papers, 1860-1940

Original collection finding aid is included.

Image Folder PF-822/1

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Reel M-822/1

Microfilm copy of papers, 1830-1940

Access restriction: The original physical documents are not owned by the Library or stored in Wilson Special Collections Library.

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