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A Guide to the Edward B. O'Neal Papers, 1968-1975 O'Neal, Edward B., Papers, 1968-1975 41487

A Guide to the Edward B. O'Neal Papers, 1968-1975

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 41487


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
41487
Title
Edward B. O'Neal Papers, 1968-1975
Physical Description
7 cubic feet (16 boxes)
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Edward B. O'Neal Papers, 1968-1975. Accession 41487. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Portsmouth Public Library.

Biographical Information

Edward Bert O'Neal was born in Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina on 14 July 1925. He was the son of Bert Edward O'Neal (1896-1939) and Clara Eleanor Brown (1905-1971). He attended St. Paul's School in Baltimore, and later moved to Norfolk, Virginia. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. O'Neal attended the division of the College of William and Mary in Norfolk, where he took a course in business administration, and was employed by an architectural and engineering firm as office manager and bookkeeper. In 1970, O'Neal moved to Atlanta, where he was employed by Atlanta Airport Engineers as an accountant. Edward B. O'Neal died in Norfolk, Virginia on 16 May 1999.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1968-1975, of Edward B. O'Neal (1925-1999) of Norfolk, Virginia, and Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of his genealogical research files on the Cotten/Cotton families of Virginia and North Carolina, specifically the descendants of John Cotton (d. 1728) of Bertie County, North Carolina. O'Neal intended to publish a book entitled Our Southern Heritage: A History of the Cotten/Cotton Families of the South, Their Descendants, and Allied Families. The collection also contains research on the family of Alexander Rankin of Scotland and his descendants, many of whom settled in Tennessee.

There is a substantial amount of information on the allied families of Andrews, Braswell, Brown, Davis, Donelson/Donaldson, Holladay/Holliday, Powell, Rodgers, Turner, Upchurch, Van Tassel, Waugh, and Wilkinson. Areas represented in the collection include Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Princess Anne, Surry, Sussex, and York Counties, Virginia; Betie, Edgecombe, Hertford, and Northampton Counties, North Carolina; and Blount and Knox Counties, Tennesssee.

The papers contain abstracts, transcriptions, and copies of Bible records, census records, deeds, land patents and grants, marriage records, obituaries, pension records, published sources, tombstone inscriptions, and wills. In addition, there is correspondence, family group sheets, and genealogical charts.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1
Abingdon .
Box 1 Folder 2
Alston .
Box 1 Folder 3-6
Andrew .
Box 1 Folder 7
Armstrong .
Box 1 Folder 8
As We Were by Bruce Cotten .
Box 1 Folder 9
Bacon's Rebellion - Anne Cotten (Peter Force's Tracts) .
Box 1 Folder 10
Bagnall (Eley-Braswell-West) .
Box 1 Folder 11
Balmer .
Box 1 Folder 12
Banks .
Box 1 Folder 13
Barnes .
Box 1 Folder 14
Barrow .
Box 1 Folder 15
Batte/Batts .
Box 1 Folder 16
Battle .
Box 1 Folder 17
Beals/Beale .
Box 1 Folder 18
Belcher .
Box 1 Folder 19
Bell .
Box 1 Folder 20
Blair .
Box 1 Folder 21
Blount .
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Braswell .
Box 2 Folder 3-5
Braswell - Correspondence .
Box 2 Folder 6
Braswell - England (MacLamroc Collection) .
Box 2 Folder 7-9
Braswell - Fields, Bill - Correspondence .
Box 2 Folder 10
Braswell - Bill Field's Data .
Box 2 Folder 11
Braswell, Isaac .
Box 2 Folder 12-13
Braswell - Isle of Wight County .
Box 3 Folder 1-2
Braswell - Isle of Wight County - Deeds and Wills .
Box 3 Folder 3-4
Braswell, Jacob and Nancy .
Box 3 Folder 5
The Lineage of Jacob Thomas Braswell by Viola Vick Braswell, 1956 .
Box 3 Folder 6
Braswell - Manuscripts .
Box 3 Folder 7
Braswell - Nash County, NC .
Box 3 Folder 8
Braswell, Richard .
Box 3 Folder 9
Braswell, Robert Jr. .
Box 3 Folder 10
Braswell, William .
Box 3 Folder 11
Brewer .
Box 3 Folder 12
Brickell .
Box 3 Folder 13
Bridger .
Box 3 Folder 14-15
Brown .
Box 3 Folder 16
Brown, Gen. .
Box 3 Folder 17
Brown, Samuel Pride .
Box 4 Folder 1
Buckingham, Eleanor B. - Estate .
Box 4 Folder 2-3
Bullock .
Box 4 Folder 4
Campbell .
Box 4 Folder 5
Carney .
Box 4 Folder 6
Carter .
Box 4 Folder 7
Cartwright .
Box 4 Folder 8
Cartwright-Keeling-Hobdy-Cotten (Dorothy Louise Milam Julich) .
Box 4 Folder 9
Carver .
Box 4 Folder 10
Census Records .
Box 4 Folder 11
Clark .
Box 4 Folder 12
Clark, Larry Goodrich .
Box 4 Folder 13
Coleman .
Box 4 Folder 14
Cook .
Box 4 Folder 15
Correspondence - Personal .
Box 4 Folder 16-17
Correspondence - Registers of Deeds, Clerks, Libraries .
Box 5 Folder 1
Cotten, Alexander Spotswood .
Box 5 Folder 2
Cotten, Anna Lee - Christian Ewing Hauer Family .
Box 5 Folder 3
Cotten, Arthur Kemp .
Box 5 Folder 4
Cotten, Benjamin (Peggy Gregory's Line) .
Box 5 Folder 5
Cotten - Bible Records .
Box 5 Folder 6
Cotten - Cemetery Records .
Box 5 Folder 7-9
Cotten - Correspondence .
Box 5 Folder 10-11
Cotten - Correspondence - Lines Not Connected .
Box 5 Folder 12
Cotten - Deeds .
Box 5 Folder 13
Cotten - Deeds - North Carolina .
Box 5 Folder 14-15
Cotten - Family Sketches, etc. .
Box 5 Folder 16
Cotten - Group Sheets .
Box 6 Folder 1
Cotten - Heraldry .
Box 6 Folder 2
Cotten, James .
Box 6 Folder 3
Cotten, Col. James .
Box 6 Folder 4
Cotten, Jesse m. Mourning Jones .
Box 6 Folder 5
Cotten, Joab - Kershaw County (Mrs. Eloise J. Rogers) .
Box 6 Folder 6
Cotten, John m. Sarah Deason; Cotten, George Washington m. Sarah Elizabeth Wear (Bert Hollis Cotton III) .
Box 6 Folder 7
Cotten, John = Deeds .
Box 6 Folder 8
Cotten, Rev. John .
Box 6 Folder 9
Cotten, Joseph - Halifax County, NC .
Box 6 Folder 10-11
Cotten, Lazarus .
Box 6 Folder 12
Cotten, Lazarus (Leta Baughn) .
Box 6 Folder 13
Cotten - Marriage Records .
Box 6 Folder 14
Cotten - Pennsylvania .
Box 6 Folder 15-17
Cotten, Samuel .
Box 7 Folder 1
Cotten, Samuel .
Box 7 Folder 2
Cotten, Capt. Thomas .
Box 7 Folder 2
Cotten, Capt. Thomas .
Box 7 Folder 3
Cotten - Virginia .
Box 7 Folder 4
Cotten, William m. Sarah (Dew) Bridgers .
Box 7 Folder 5
Cotten, Rev. William .
Box 7 Folder 6
Cotten - Wills .
Box 7 Folder 7
Cotten - Wills - North Carolina .
Box 7 Folder 8
Cotten - Wills - Virginia .
Box 7 Folder 9
Crawford .
Box 7 Folder 10
Crocker .
Box 7 Folder 11
Dalton .
Box 7 Folder 12
Daniel .
Box 7 Folder 13
Davis/Davies .
Box 7 Folder 14
A History of the Davis Family of "Oakland," NC by Cora Davis Brooks, 1918 .
Box 7 Folder 15
The Davis Genealogist, 1969 .
Box 7 Folder 16
Sam Davis - Confederate Hero, 1842-1863 by Edythe Johns Rucker Whitley, 1947 .
Box 7 Folder 17
Dawson .
Box 7 Folder 18
Deloach .
Box 7 Folder 19
Dew .
Box 7 Folder 20
Dickinson .
Box 7 Folder 21
Diggs/Digges/Degge .
Box 7 Folder 22
Doggett .
Box 7 Folder 23
Donaldson .
Box 7 Folder 24
History of the Donaldson Family, Scotland-America by Mrs. J. Paul Galbraith .
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Donelson/Donaldson .
Box 8 Folder 3
Duke .
Box 8 Folder 4
Duncan, John .
Box 8 Folder 5
Eason .
Box 8 Folder 6
Edwards .
Box 8 Folder 7
Erwin/Irwin .
Box 8 Folder 8
Evans .
Box 8 Folder 9
Ewell .
Box 8 Folder 10
Exum .
Box 8 Folder 11
Feake .
Box 8 Folder 12
Felton .
Box 8 Folder 13
Felts .
Box 8 Folder 14
A Compilation of the Descendants of William Fenton of County Limerick, Ireland and Petersburg, Virginia by James H. Bailey II .
Box 8 Folder 15
Feriby .
Box 8 Folder 16
Figures .
Box 8 Folder 17
Flake, Robert Sr. (Isle of Wight County, VA) .
Box 8 Folder 18
Floyd .
Box 8 Folder 19
Fountain .
Box 8 Folder 20
Frizzell .
Box 8 Folder 21
Galbraith .
Box 8 Folder 22
Genealogy of the Cotten Family of North Carolina by Bruce Cotten .
Box 8 Folder 23-24
Gewin .
Box 8 Folder 25
Godwin .
Box 8 Folder 26
Goode .
Box 8 Folder 27
Granberry .
Box 8 Folder 28
Gray .
Box 8 Folder 29
Green .
Box 8 Folder 30
Griffin .
Box 8 Folder 31
Gwinnett, Button (Charles Francis Jenkins) .
Box 9 Folder 1
Harrell .
Box 9 Folder 2
Harriss .
Box 9 Folder 3
Harvey .
Box 9 Folder 4
Hassell, C.B. .
Box 9 Folder 5
Hawkins, Col. Philemon .
Box 9 Folder 6
Haynes .
Box 9 Folder 7
Henderson .
Box 9 Folder 8
Herring .
Box 9 Folder 9-10
Hill .
Box 9 Folder 11
Hilliard .
Box 9 Folder 12
Hobbs .
Box 9 Folder 13
Hobdy .
Box 9 Folder 14-17
Holladay/Holliday .
Box 9 Folder 18
Horn .
Box 9 Folder 19
House .
Box 9 Folder 20
Hudnall .
Box 9 Folder 21
The Hudson Family From Prince Edward County, Virginia to Troup County, Georgia by Janie Lovelace Heard, 1969.
Box 9 Folder 22
Hunter .
Box 9 Folder 23
Huston/Houston .
Box 9 Folder 24
Hutchinson, Anne .
Box 10 Folder 1
Ivy .
Box 10 Folder 2
Izzard .
Box 10 Folder 3
Jeffries/Jefferys .
Box 10 Folder 4
Jordan .
Box 10 Folder 5
Josey .
Box 10 Folder 6
Journal of John Cotten and Its Unreliability .
Box 10 Folder 7
Keeling .
Box 10 Folder 8
Keeling - Forsey, Margaret - Correspondence .
Box 10 Folder 9
Kennon .
Box 10 Folder 10
Killebrew .
Box 10 Folder 11
Kinchen .
Box 10 Folder 12
Kirven .
Box 10 Folder 13
Knapp .
Box 10 Folder 14
Knight .
Box 10 Folder 15
Knox .
Box 10 Folder 16
Knox County, TN - Marriage Bonds (A-Q) .
Box 10 Folder 17
LaMotte .
Box 10 Folder 18
Joel Lane: A Pioneer and Patriot of Wake County, North Carolina by Marshall DeLancy Haywood .
Box 10 Folder 19
Lanier .
Box 10 Folder 20
Lawrence .
Box 10 Folder 21
Lee .
Box 10 Folder 22
Lewis .
Box 10 Folder 23
Lincoln .
Box 11 Folder 1
List of Contacts .
Box 11 Folder 2
Little .
Box 11 Folder 3
Llewellyn .
Box 11 Folder 4
Love .
Box 11 Folder 5
Loveless/Lovelace .
Box 11 Folder 6
Lovett .
Box 11 Folder 7
Lowe .
Box 11 Folder 8
Luttrell .
Box 11 Folder 9
Mackey .
Box 11 Folder 10
Makemie .
Box 11 Folder 11
Martin .
Box 11 Folder 12
McCormick .
Box 11 Folder 13
McRae .
Box 11 Folder 14
Montfort/Mumford .
Box 11 Folder 15
Moore .
Box 11 Folder 16
Motley .
Box 11 Folder 17
Moone (also Green and Davis) .
Box 11 Folder 18
Mumford .
Box 11 Folder 19
Newman .
Box 11 Folder 20
Nexsen .
Box 11 Folder 21
A Family History of the Family Nexsen and Their Descendants .
Box 11 Folder 22
Norfleet .
Box 11 Folder 23
Northsworthy .
Box 11 Folder 24
North Carolina Estate Papers .
Box 11 Folder 25
Oliphant .
Box 11 Folder 26
O'Neal - Correspondence .
Box 11 Folder 27
Outlaw .
Box 11 Folder 28
Pace/Pass .
Box 11 Folder 29-30
Palmer .
Box 11 Folder 31
Parham .
Box 11 Folder 32
Patterson .
Box 12 Folder 1
Peebles .
Box 12 Folder 2
Peele .
Box 12 Folder 3
Perryman .
Box 12 Folder 4
Phillips .
Box 12 Folder 5
Pitt .
Box 12 Folder 6
Portrait of a Loyalist: James Cotten of Anson County, North Carolina by Robert Martin McBride, 1954 .
Box 12 Folder 7
Princess Anne County, VA Marriage Records .
Box 12 Folder 8
Powell .
Box 12 Folder 9
Powell, William .
Box 12 Folder 10
Proctor .
Box 12 Folder 11
Pyron (also Drewery and Willoughby) .
Box 12 Folder 12
Rankin .
Box 12 Folder 13-14
Rankin - Correspondence .
Box 12 Folder 15
Rankin Relations by A.M. Prichard, 1948 .
Box 13 Folder 1-2
Rawls .
Box 13 Folder 3-4
Revolutionary War Records .
Box 13 Folder 5
Ricks .
Box 13 Folder 6
Roane .
Box 13 Folder 7
Robert-Wood-Mitchell Bible Records .
Box 13 Folder 8-12
Rodgers .
Box 14 Folder 1-2
Rodgers .
Box 14 Folder 3
Rodgers - Correspondence .
Box 14 Folder 4
Commodore John Rodgers by Charles Oscar Paullin, 1910 .
Box 14 Folder 5
Rodgers, Rev. John .
Box 14 Folder 6
Ruffin .
Box 14 Folder 7
Rutland .
Box 14 Folder 8
Screws .
Box 14 Folder 9
Sherrar/Sherrer/Sherrod .
Box 14 Folder 10
Shipp .
Box 14 Folder 11
Shirley .
Box 14 Folder 12
Shomo .
Box 14 Folder 13
Skinner .
Box 14 Folder 14
Slatter .
Box 14 Folder 15
Slocum .
Box 14 Folder 16
Speight .
Box 14 Folder 17
Staton .
Box 14 Folder 18
Storm .
Box 14 Folder 19
Strange .
Box 14 Folder 20
Stringer .
Box 14 Folder 21
Sudderth .
Box 14 Folder 22
Swann .
Box 14 Folder 23
Sweeney .
Box 14 Folder 24
Tennent .
Box 14 Folder 25
Thigpen .
Box 14 Folder 26
Thomas .
Box 14 Folder 27
Tooke .
Box 14 Folder 28
Toole .
Box 14 Folder 29-30
Turner .
Box 15 Folder 1
Turner - Tennessee - 1850 Census .
Box 15 Folder 2
Turner - Texas .
Box 15 Folder 3
Turner - Virginia (Patton Turner, 1965) .
Box 15 Folder 4-5
Upchurch .
Box 15 Folder 6
Urch .
Box 15 Folder 7-8
Van Tassel .
Box 15 Folder 9
Vick .
Box 15 Folder 10
Walton .
Box 15 Folder 11-12
Waugh .
Box 15 Folder 13
Weeks .
Box 15 Folder 14
West .
Box 15 Folder 15
Whitehead .
Box 15 Folder 16-17
Whitley .
Box 16 Folder 1-2
Wilkinson .
Box 16 Folder 3
Williams .
Box 16 Folder 4
Wilson .
Box 16 Folder 5
Winberry .
Box 16 Folder 6
Wood .
Box 16 Folder 7
The Worthington Family of Florida by Eloise J. Rogers, 1972 .
Box 16 Folder 8
Wright .
Box 16 Folder 9
Young .
Box 16 Folder 10
Yours Till Death: Civil War Letters of John W. Cotton .