Dear Arledge and Holbert cousins, I encourage you to read this message even if you're not related to the Polk Co, NC Arledges. I have just discovered the existence of these archival papers in the UNC Southern Historical Collection, and am amazed to find them. If any of you live in the Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham area, perhaps you could go and take a look at them. Grant Arledge was born in 1869, the son of Ulysses "Lis" Grant Arledge and Drusilla Alewine. Ulysses was the son of Levi Arledge and Cynthia Jefferson. I have Grant's wife listed as Evelyn Fisher, but have no further information as to any children they may have had. I do have a good deal of information on his ancestry. This material seems to reflect upon the historical lifestyle of many of our rural Southern families, especially those who lived in the mountainous areas of NC, SC, GA, TN and AL. I know there was a great deal of "moonshining" that went on in the Green River Cove area and surrounding counties, and some of the Holbert cousins whose ancestors moved to Georgia told me they brought this profession with them to the North GA mountains as well [note that Ben Holbert is listed in the papers, below]. This sounds like very interesting and valuable material for understanding our ancestors' lifestyles. Pam ____ Pam Wilson wilsonpam@mindspring.com Arledge Family History Project: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/8208 Listowner, HOLBERT-L _____ http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/04913_m.htm > Grant Arledge Papers Inventory (#4913) > > Manuscripts Department > > > > Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > > > Contact Information > Manuscripts Department > CB#3926, Wilson Library > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 > Phone: 919/962-1345 > Fax: 919/962-4452 > Email: mss@email.unc.edu > URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/ > > Processed by: > Lynn Holdzkom > > Date Completed: > December 1998 > > Encoded by: > Lynn Holdzkom > > > > > Descriptive Summary Including Abstract > > Title > Grant Arledge Papers (#4913) 1899-1936 > > Creator > Arledge, Grant > > Extent > 28 items (0.5 linear feet) > > Repository > Southern Historical Collection > > Abstract > Grant Arledge was a farmer in Flat Rock, N.C. He raised cows and other animals; planted tobacco, potatoes, and other > crops; cut and sold lumber; and manufactured and sold wine and spirits. Chiefly account books, 1899-1936, of Grant > Arledge of Flat Rock, N.C, in which Arledge kept farm records, including notes on crops grown (tobacco, potatoes), > livestock (calving, breeding, pasturing of cows), and other farm activities (wood cut and sold, fertilizers applied, beehives > maintained). Also included are notes, some in the style of short diary entries, that include documentation of daily activities; > recipes; and general facts and useful information. There is also much information that falls under the title "wet goods sold." > Arledge was an active moonshiner, producing and selling non-tax-paid wine and liquor; the books list ingredients > purchased, recipes for various concoctions, and when and to whom products were made and sold. Almost all of the > books are account/memo books given away by banks, fertilizer companies, and other institutions. Most of these books > include printed advertisements for goods and services offered by the company that distributed them. Many of Arledge's > books were kept in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Books, distributed by R. V. Pierce's World's Dispensary > Medical Association of Buffalo, N.Y. These books include advertisements for Pierce's patent medicines (especially the > “Golden Medical Discovery,” which claimed to be effective against any number of ailments) and other services, including > Pierce's Invalid's Hotel and urine analysis labs. Also included are general health and beauty tips and testimonials from > satisfied customers, many with photographs. > > > > Administrative Information > > Access > No restrictions. > > Usage Restrictions > Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States > copyright law. > > Provenance > Received from Benjamin Carmichael Sumner of Savannah, Ga., in March 1998 (Acc. 98033). > > Processing Information > Microfilm copy available (1 reel). > > > > Online Catalog Terms > > Account books--North Carolina--History--20th century. > Advertising--History. > Arledge, Grant. > Distillation apparatus--History--20th century. > Farmers--North Carolina--History--20th century. > Flat Rock (N.C.)--History--20th century. > Liquor industry--North Carolina--History--20th century. > Livestock--North Carolina--History--20th century. > Lumber trade--North Carolina--History--20th century. > North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century. > Patent medicines--History--20th century. > Pierce, R. V. (Ray Vaughn), b. 1840. > Prohibition--North Carolina--History--20th century. > Wine and wine making--North Carolina--History--20th century. > World's Dispensary Medical Association. > > > > Biographical Note > > Grant Arledge was a farmer in Flat Rock, N.C. He raised cows and other animals; planted tobacco, potatoes, and other crops; > cut and sold lumber; and manufactured and sold wine and spirits. > > > > Collection Overview > > Chiefly account books, 1899-1936, of Grant Arledge of Flat Rock, N.C., in which Arledge kept farm records, including notes > on crops grown (tobacco, potatoes), livestock (calving, breeding, pasturing of cows), and other farm activities (wood cut and > sold, fertilizers applied, beehives maintained). Also included are notes, some in the style of short diary entries, that include > documentation of daily activities; recipes; and general facts and useful information. > > There is also much information that falls under the title "wet goods sold." Arledge was an active moonshiner, producing and > selling non-tax-paid wine and liquor; the books list ingredients purchased, recipes for various concoctions, and when and to > whom products were made and sold. > > Names mentioned include Pink Case, who seems to have been a coworker or helper (he is routinely charged for board), and > Polk King, who appears to have been a frequent client, but who also was involved in the theft of a still in 1925. > > Almost all of the books are account/memo books given away by banks, fertilizer companies, and other institutions. Most of > these books include printed advertisements for goods and services offered by the company that distributed them. Many of > Arledge's books were kept in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Books, distributed by Dr. R. V. Pierce's World's > Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N.Y. These books include advertisements for Pierce's patent medicines (especially > the “Golden Medical Discovery”, which claimed to be effective against any number of ailments) and other services, including > Pierce's Invalid's Hotel and urine analysis labs. Also included are general health and beauty tips and testimonials from satisfied > customers, many with photographs. > > > > Description > > Volumes, 1899-1936 > > 28 items. > > Arrangement: chronological by last date appearing in item. > > Chiefly account books, 1899-1936, of Grant Arledge of Flat Rock, N.C., in which Arledge kept farm records, including notes > on crops grown (tobacco, potatoes), livestock (calving, breeding, pasturing of cows), and other farm activities (wood cut and > sold, fertilizers applied, beehives maintained). Also included are notes, some in the style of short diary entries, including > documentation of document daily activities; recipes; and general facts and useful information. > > There is also much information that falls under the title "wet goods sold." Arledge was an active moonshiner, producing and > selling non-tax-paid wine and liquor; the books list ingredients purchased, recipes for various concoctions, and when and to > whom products were made and sold. > > Names mentioned include Pink Case, who seems to have been a coworker or helper (he is routinely charged for board), and > Polk King, who appears to have been a frequent client, but who also was involved in the theft of a still in 1925. > > Books are listed by gross dates of the contents (note that dates appearing on the covers of many of the books rarely match the > actual dates appearing in the contents). Almost all of the books are account/memo books given away by banks, fertilizer > companies, and other institutions. Most of these books include printed advertisements for goods and services offered by the > company that distributed them. Many of Arledge's books were kept in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Books, distributed > by Dr. R. V. Pierce's World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N.Y. These books include advertisements for > Pierce's patent medicines (especially the “Golden Medical Discovery”, which claimed to be effective against any number of > ailments) and other services, including Pierce's Invalid's Hotel and urine analysis labs. Also included are general health and > beauty tips and testimonials from satisfied customers, many with photographs. The type of book is noted in the item > descriptions. > > Folder > 1 > 1899-1900: a few pages of Bible quotes; practical information, including how big a flue should be > (“Calendar for 1899 & 1900”; in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book). > 2 > 1913-1914: general accounts; fertilizer and other recipes (no title; in Acorn Stove & Ranges book). > 3 > 1916-1920: chiefly cow records--calving, breeding, pasturing; general accounts; addresses (“Cow > Record”; in The Oliver (Oliver Chilled Plow Works) book). Enclosure: “Mrs. Grant Due” account, 1919. > 4 > 1919-1921: general accounts; information relating to cows, corn shucked, gallons sold, hauling, lumber (no > title; in Commercial Bank, Henderson, N.C., book). > 5 > 1921-1922: a few mash, plowing, and lumber records (no title; no covers; pages marked “Time--Week > ending”). > 6 > 1912; 1923-1925: wood and other accounts (no title; in Deering Harvester Company memorandum > book). Enclosure: newspaper advertisement from the Companion Corresponding Club, Boaz , Kentucky, > offering a list of “pretty girl members who wish to marry,” dated “Jan 11th 1912” on verso. > 7 > 1925-1926: wood, brandy and other “wet goods”; Pink Case accounts; general accounts (“1925 & 1926 > Wood and other accounts”; in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book). > 8 > 1924-1927: story of stolen still (see also folder 19); wet goods sold (“Pink Cases account to Date”; in > Asheville Seed Company book). > 9 > 1924-1929: general accounts; wood; whiskey (“General accounts”; in Pierce's Memorandum and Account > Book). Enclosures: “Wet Goods Sold. 1924, 1925”; addresses, undated. > 10 > 1911-1930: chiefly cow records--calving, breeding, pasturing; a few family records, including death of U. > S. Arledge in 1924 and “Mother Died on Dr. Mooney Farm. Aug the 15 1923 Wednesday 8 PM”; wet > goods sold; miscellaneous other notations (“New Cow Record, 1920-1924”; in The Oliver (Oliver Chilled > Plow Works) book). > 11 > 1927-1930: chiefly wood sold (“Wood Sold 1928 & 29 & 30”; in Pierce's Memorandum and Account > Book). Enclosure: notes on rye “to be distilled on Big Hungry,” 1927, and accounts, 1929. > 12 > 1927-1931: wet goods sold; record of potato plants; wood sold; record of automobile plate and note, > “April 30 1929, traded my Ford car for a Chevrolet ... ” (“Full Aug 24 '31”; in Etiwan Fertilizer Company > book). > 13 > 1931: general accounts and notes (“Account Book. Jethro Jones. Ben Holbert. Jay Parris & others”; in > Beauty, Milady's Notebook from Dr. Pierce's Clinic). > 14 > 1931-1932: wet and other accounts (“1931 1932 Wet Goods Account Sold”; in The Oliver (Oliver > Chilled Plow Works) book). > 15 > 1932: aphorisms; “bits of N.C. history”; general notes and accounts; addresses (“Neal Jones work on > car”; in Weaver Organs book.) > 16 > 1930-1933: general accounts; record of time worked; “Sept 23 1932 Received check from the > comptroller of the Treasury for $68.00 and 76 cents ... as dividend in the Failure of the citizens National > Bank of Hendersonville” (“Calendar for 1901 & 1902. Wood Sold Year 1930”; in Pierce's Memorandum > and Account Book). > 17 > 1933-1934: “wet goods sold”; cow records; general accounts (“Calendar for 1898 & 1899. Wet Goods > Sold Year 1933 & 1934”; in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book). Enclosures: Pink Case accounts > 1926 (2 pages); “April 1929 Wet Goods Made.” > 18 > 1933-1935: record of fertilizers used; general accounts; bee hives; account of shooting at cow barn > (“Fertilizer used year 1933”; in Armours Fertilizers book). > 19 > 1925-1936: general notes and facts; recipes for cordials, etc.; note on Polk King stealing “still outfit” in > 1925 (see also folder 8) (no title; in A. D. Adair and McCarty Bros. (fertilizer manufacturer) book). > 20 > 1934-1936: wet goods sold; records of work on house, tobacco, cows, whiskey, wine (“Account year > 1934 and 1935”; in Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book).