Three new finding aids have been added to the Private Collections finding aids page:
Dail, Joseph Cooper, Store Account Books, Edenton, N.C., 1894-1941
Joseph Cooper Dail (1872-1940) was born in Chowan County, a son of Martha A. Boyce and Nathan D. Dail. In 1898 Dail began working in a mercantile store in Edenton (Chowan County), then purchased the store in 1903. In 1897 he married Christian Eliza (Kate) Hobbs (1878-1959). At least five children were born to this couple, who lived in and brought up their family in Edenton. This collection represents the financial records of grocer, Joseph Cooper Dail, who first worked in, then later owned a retail grocery in the town of Edenton. Included among the account books, with entries made from 1894-1941, are the following: six volumes labeled as double entry ledgers, two volumes labeled as single entry ledgers; thirteen volumes variously labeled as daybooks, order books, or annual books and involving sales; charges, and orders; three small, soft bound, memorandum books containing inventories and lists of medications; and three other volumes including lists of old, unpaid accounts, supplies, or produce orders, etc. Additionally, one volume includes four pages with college expenses listed for children, Leroy Dail, at Wake Forest College, and Katie Dail at Meredith College. One or more volumes includes brief comments about weather, such as rain, thunderstorms and sometimes the deaths of customers and/or community members listed. (3 boxes)
Long, Woody and Co. Account Book, 1900-1904
At least as early as the late 1860s, various members of the Long families and Woody families of Person County were active as merchants in several towns and communities. It appears that the men who were principals in the Long, Woody and Company were J. A. Long of Roxboro and possibly William A. Woody of Bethel Hill. The ownership of the concern, however, remains uncertain. This volume represents transactions of a store dealing with hardware, tinware, and some general merchandise. It lists purchases by individual customers or by business customers. Items purchased included axe handles, axel grease, rope, buckets, shoes, boxes of hooks and springs, paint, windows, shells, saw teeth, sheets of tin, oil, buggy rings, knives, shoes and nails (horses), shovels, sashes, bed casters, bolts, lamps, steak dishes, etc. (1 volume, account book)
Nabors, A. H., Physician and Merchant Account Book, Rutherford County, N.C., 1870-1872
Asbury Hull Nabors (1838-1902) was born at Laurens, Laurens County, S.C. to Alon and Martha Nabours. He was educated at the Charleston Medical College at Charleston, S.C., where he received his degree in 1860. Asbury Hull Nabors maintained a medical practice and a general merchandise concern in Rutherford County. The store was near Camp Creek Township in the area with a post office named Brittain (apparently now defunct). This ledger of accounts contains entries for Dr. Nabor’s medical visits and for general store purchases from the years 1870-1872, with most occurring in 1871. The volume has 218 numbered pages that begin at page four (first three pages and possibly an index are missing). Included with the volume is a copy of a store advertisement that appeared in the Mountain Banner, 9 June 1882. (1 item, account book)
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