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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Jim Greve, 5 March 2012 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Edward B. O'Neal Papers, 1968-1975 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 41487 Jim Greve

Library of Virginia 2012 Jim Greve Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Edward B. O'Neal Papers, 1968-1975 41487 7 cubic feet (16 boxes) English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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