Collection:. JOHN M. AND RUTH HODGES
Cumberland and Harnett counties,
Asheboro and Raleigh; ’ .
’ Richmond, Virginia; Washington, D. C.
1735-1966
Physical Description: c. 675 items; letters, genealogies, deeds, patents, '
surveys, courses,, plats, wills, extracts, recipes, newspaper clippings, •
promissory notes, vouchers, accounts, commissions and passes, certifi-
cates, bonds, account books, ledgers, Bible records, invitations, call¬
ing cards, programs, resolution, snapshot, obituaries, biographies, poems, .
church publications.
Acquisition: Received c. 260 items, from Mrs. Sara Harper Jerome, grand¬
daughter of Sallie Worth McNeill and John Murchison Hodges, Sr., August 12,
1965. Additional items. (c. 420) received August - October, 1966, from
Mrs. Jerome. [John M. and Ruth Hodges were brother and sister; name apparently
selected by donor}
P.O.3-242 .1-1242 .7
frf/S boxes)
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Description: Material from 1735-3-820 includes patents, deeds, and other
land papers, many relating to the McNeill family of Cumberland. County. .
In 1847 James P. Hodges married the stepsister, of John McNeill, Jr.
(Flora Murchison) and eventually became guardian or legal counselor, for £;;!£•#-•
McNeills and. others. In 1848 Roxana Worth, oldest child of Jonathan ' ;
Worth, married John McNeill, Jr. On the death of his son-in-law' (I857)j4‘*> l •.
Worth became administrator of the estate. ‘ The collection is arranged
around the papers of the Worth, McNeill, and Hodges families.
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WORTH FAMILY
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127 items ( 1823-1939 ) originating in Asheboro, Raleigh, WilmingtonJ'.S^.^:.
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D..CI;'. •
genealogies, deeds, accounts., ledger books, and . family correspondence
(45 of the 75 family letters are addressed to Roxana Worth McNeill). For % : '
biographical sketches of the family see Samuel A. Ashe (ed.), Biographical •
History of North Car---Iir.a. Vol. Ill - Jonathan Worth, p. 435 5 J. Milton •
Worth, p. 454; J. hO&Son Ivortb, p. 4&L; Barzillai G. Worth, p. 466; David
G. Worth, jZ. 473. Vol. VIII - givira Wortfel JA offffrt, p.‘349> Herbert Worthy v \
Jackson, g>. 272. ' . I.
Jonathan Worth: In addition to a ledger book, accounts, and papers'-:»?;-.
relating to the McMn.1 state, family correspondence (ll letters) includes
a love letter to Mu-v.:.' Daniel (1823); a fragment of a letter from his
wife's uncle, Arcnioaic Bow Murphey, referring to a gild mine venture^ .,
[Gibson, Guilford County] and poor health [c. 1829], aggrieving letter
the death of daughter Louisa (1852); a travelog of a rail trip to Memphis'
(l857)> where he went to hire Negroes. An April 22, I865, letter to brother * .
Addison from Company's Shops [Burlington] describes the surrenders at Ral-iy,;.
eigh and Durham, refers to Jefferson Davis in North Carolina, and deplores.!}-..
the refusal of Confederate leaders to allow him to return the archives to '•
Raleigh [Published in J. G. del . Hamilton (ed.), The Correspondence of Jon¬
athan Worth. (Raleigh: North Carolina historical Commission, 2 volumes,-
