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Julia and Richard Richards Collection

M2006.9.

 
"In Memoriam E.L.R. ( Emma Lydia Rankin)"
from E.L.R. [Memoires],  Julia and Richard Richards Collection,
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville.

Title Julia and Richard Richards Collection
Creator Julia and [Dick] Richard Richards
Subject Keyword :
Emma Lydia Rankin ; Civil War ; War Between the States, 1861-1865  ; Mecklenburg County, NC ;  7th North Carolina Calvary ; Caldwell County, North Carolina ; Highland Messenger ; Asheville, NC ; newspapers ;
Subject LCSH :
Rankin, Emma Lydia, 1838-1908
Rankin, Emma Lydia. Memoirs
Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Memoirs
Caldwell County (N.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Civil War -- North Carolina -- Asheville
North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Soldiers -- North Carolina
Rankin, Jesse
Rankin, Ann Delight
United States History -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description Two items are included in this collection. The first item is a small book of memoirs of Emma  Lydia Rankin,  a Caldwell County resident, who was born July 29,1838 and died February 28,1908 in Lenoir, in Caldwell County. The memoirs recount the experiences of the family in 1885, at the end of the Civil War. Emma Lydia Rankin was well-known as the Principal of the Kirkwood Home School for Girls near Lenoir, McDowell  County, NC. The second item is a fragment of the Highland Messenger newspaper, vol. II, issue 15, 1841, a Whig paper that sought to provide news to the people of western North Carolina. It had a short run from 1840 until 1848 [?] when the last issue is recorded and it was succeeded by the Asheville Messenger, which persisted until 1852.
Publisher D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804. 
Contributor Andrew Fischel
Date original  
Date digital 2006-10-11
Type Collection ; Text ; Image
Format Framed and mounted for display in the newspaper area of D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Identifier  
Source M2006.
Language English
Relation Julia and Richard Richards Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections ;
Coverage temporal 1863-1865 ;  Lenoir, North Carolina ; 1841 ;
Coverage spatial Asheville, North Carolina
Rights Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor  
Acquisition  2006
Citation "Highland Messenger," in the Julia and Richard Richards Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff, 2006-10-11
Location Item
I.D. #
Description Thumbnail
  rich_elr_000 Small booklet titled: "E.L.R." [Emma Lydia Rankin Memoirs] rich0002_mod.jpg (214788 bytes)
Portrait of Emma Lydia Rankin from "E.L.R. Memoirs"
  rich_hm_000 Highland Messenger newspaper, Volume II, Issue 15, 1841.

Began in 1840
Earliest known issue: June 5, 1840
Ceased in 1848?
Last known issue: Aug. 17, 1848
OCLC #11385007
Continued by: Asheville Messenger
Published as: "The Messenger", July 22, 1842-Feb. 3, 1843.    

Asheville Messenger
Began in 1849?
Earliest known issue: Aug. 23, 1849
Last known issue: Oct. 27, 1852
OCLC #25685465
 

rich_hig0001.jpg (113250 bytes)
View of framed and mounted newspaper fragments.