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Collection Number: 01951-z

Collection Title: Margaret Walker Weber Reminiscences, 1904.

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This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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Abstract Margaret Isabella Walker Weber (born 1824), a white woman, was the daughter of Caroline Mary Mallet and Carleton Walker. The collection contains reminiscences of Walker's childhood at Moseley Hall, a plantation near Wilmington, N.C.; Walker's Hill, a plantation in Chatham County, N.C., and in Hillsborough, N.C. The reminiscences also describe her school days, chiefly in Hillsborough; marriage to Professor Johannes Heinrich Christian Frederich Weber (born 1812), a German immigrant; experiences teaching school in Columbia, S.C., and in several places in Tennessee, including Columbia and Nashville; and some data on the Walker, Mumford, Mallet, and Moseley families.
Creator Weber, Margaret Walker.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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No restrictions. Open for research.
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 Margaret Walker Weber Reminiscences, #1951-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011; Nancy Kaiser, April 2022

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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Margaret Isabella Walker Weber (b. 1824) was the daughter of Caroline Mary Mallet and Carleton Walker.

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Margaret Isabella Walker Weber (born 1824), a white woman, was the daughter of Caroline Mary Mallet and Carleton Walker. The collection contains reminiscences of Walker's childhood at Moseley Hall, a plantation near Wilmington, N.C.; Walker's Hill, a plantation in Chatham County, N.C., and in Hillsborough, N.C. The reminiscences also describe her school days, chiefly in Hillsborough; marriage to Professor Johannes Heinrich Christian Frederich Weber (born 1812), a German immigrant; experiences teaching school in Columbia, S.C., and in several places in Tennessee, including Columbia and Nashville; and some data on the Walker, Mumford, Mallet, and Moseley families.

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Reminiscences, 1904

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