MS866 Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History MS866 1879-2001, undated, 0.63 linear feet Finding aid prepared by Processed by Tara Coady and Stephanie Bennett Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives
PO Box 7777 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109 336 758-5755
2017 April This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2017-08-07T13:15-0400 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History MS866 Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives 0.63 linear feet 1 document box, 1 half-document box 1879-2001, undated The Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History includes historical, biographical, genealogical, and creative materials related to the town of Riverton, North Carolina. In addition to primary historical materials such as church and school programs, the collection includes document photocopies, dramatizations, memoirs, manuscripts, and song lyrics related to Riverton. Separated Materials

The following books were included with the manuscript donation and can be found using the Z. Smith Reynolds Library catalog: McNeill, John Charles. Home in the Sandhills: selected prose by John Charles McNeill. St. Andrews College Press: Laurinburg, N.C., 1997. McNeill, John Charles. Lyrics from cotton land. Stone Publishing Co.: Charlotte, N.C., 1922. McNeill, John Charles. Lyrics from cotton land. Stone Publishing Co.: Charlotte, N.C., 1949. McNeill, John Charles. Lyrics from cotton land. University Press: Chapel Hill, N.C., 1922. McNeill, John Charles, and Richard Walser, ed. Possums and persimmons: newly collected poems. Broadfoot's Bookmark: Wendell, N.C., 1977. McNeill, John Charles. Songs merry and sad. The University Press: Chapel Hill, N.C., 1906/1932. Powers, Mary Rebecca. "Stories of Two Lands: Scotland and America." circa 1950. Wright, Marilyn, ed. A Sense of Place. Laurinburg, N.C.: Scotland County Historical Association, 1991.

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Collection is open for researchers.

 Preferred Citation

Odessa A. Memory Collection of Riverton, N.C., History (MS 866), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

 Collection Overview

The Odessa A. Memory collection of Riverton, N.C., history includes historical, biographical, genealogical, and creative materials related to the town of Riverton, North Carolina. In addition to primary historical materials such as church and school programs, the collection includes document photocopies, dramatizations, memoirs, manuscripts, and song lyrics related to Riverton.

 Biographical Note

Odessa Arnette Memory was married to Duncan Thomas Memory, who was brother to Jasper Livingston Memory, a Wake Forest graduate (1921) and professor. Her father, John Madison Arnette, graduated from Wake Forest College (1902).

 Historical Note

Odessa A. Memory collected these materials related to the Riverton area of North Carolina. Riverton is a rural area of what is now Scotland County, just outside the Cape Fear River Basin.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Donated by John Madison Memory on behalf of the original collector, Odessa Arnette Memory, January 2017.

 Biographical and historical information 1 8 undated Historical document photocopies 1 23 undated Historical document photocopies 2 1 undated Historical document photocopies 2 2 undated Historical document photocopies and related correspondence 2 3 Jackson, Catherine, The Road to Riverton 1 21 undated Johnson, Elbert Neil, "Our Riverton" lyrics 1 2 undated Johnson, Livingston, "History of Spring Hill Church" 1 12 circa 1926-1930 Life of Donald Whyte (Daniel White) with Incidents in Scotland and America, typescript 1 18 circa 1879 Life of Reverend Daniel White pamphlet and The Wheel of Faith 1 24 circa 1879, 1960s Matthews, Kate, "A Community that is a Tradition," Biblical Recorder 1 6 1945 Matthews, Mary Johnson, Looking Backward 1 10 undated Matthews, William Emery, autobiographical information 1 22 circa 1968-1970 McMillan, Hudson, Reminiscences of Riverton 1 1 2001 Memory, John Madison, "For Love of a River" 1 25 circa 2000s Memory, John Madison, "My Uncle Jasper in the 20th Century" 1 17 2001 Memory, John Madison, "What is Riverton" 1 13 1991 Moore, Isabel, Johnsons of Argyll 1 3 1940 Newspaper articles 1 7 1940-1991 North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame induction ceremony bulletin 1 11 1998 Parham, Kate, "The House that Jack Built" 1 14 1986 Poetry and prose, general 1 9 undated Riverton newspaper clippings 1 16 circa 1949-1989 Riverton School closing exercises 1 5 1908 Riverton writings inventory 1 15 circa 1990-2001 Steiner, Jesse Frederick. American Community in Action, chapters 2-3 draft 1 20 circa 1928 Steiner, Jesse Frederick. American Community in Action, chapter 3 1 19 1928 The Wheel of Faith manuscript 1 4 circa 1960s