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Mary Elizabeth Strayhorn Berry grew up in Hillsborough, the daughter of William F. Strayhorn, a storekeeper and enslaver. Her recollections of the town before the Civil War, typed in 1934, record the names, families and skills of many people enslaved by the Strayhorn, Nichols and other Hillsborough families.
Source: UNC Wilson Library: Mary E. Strayhorn Berry Papers, 1841-1944
1854–1934 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Mary E. Strayhorn Berry.
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About thirty items of Berry family papers dated 1841 to 1944, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 65-z. Mary E. Strayhorn Berry, 1854 to 1934, is the named creator. Topics include military life in Company G of the 27th North Carolina Infantry, bills of sale for enslaved people in Orange County, enslavers in the county, and social life around Hillsborough.
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