RUTH FARMER COLLECTION

M02-02

  

                        Ruth Boddie-Farmer is a retired Torreyson Library employee.  These photos represent the Boddie, Moseley, and Rumph families of the Ouachita County Arkansas area during antebellum period (late 1800’s to early 1900’s).

 

 

Box 1

 

File 1– Personal Correspondence, 2000

 

File 2 - Photograph of Russia’s Nicholi, circa 1905

 

File 3 – Seven Small Photographs

 

File 4 – Ten Small Photographs. 1899-1903

 

File 5 – Eight Medium-Sized Photographs

 

File 6 – Five Large Photographs, circa 1900

 

File 7 – Four Large Photographs

 

File 8 – Two Photographs of Military Men from Ouachita Baptist College, 1902

 

File 9 – Photograph from a Calendar

 

File 10-Program from The Third Annual Convention of Lone Star Route Highway

            Association, Inc. 1923

 

File 11-ENV 1 – Frances Caroline “Carrie” Boddie 1860-1892 married Allis Moseley

                           1887 (circa) 1870’s

           

            ENV 2 - Cornelia Smoker Boddie 1856-1878, Mother of George Kimball Smoker

                           Wife of John Rumph Boddie

            

            ENV 3 - Sue Martin Russell 1908 (circa) 1908-1950’s

 

            ENV 4 - James Walter Martin 1868-1935  (circa) 1880’s

 

File 12-ENV 1 - Harry Fisher Moseley (1888-1945) and his brother George Boddie

                            Moseley 1896-1972 – Picture 1892 or 1893

 

            ENV 2 - George Boddie Moseley 1891-1972 (circa) 1917-18 WWI

 

            ENV 3 - Moseley Home on Hwy 7 at Harmony Grove near Camden, Ark. burned

                           1927

 

            ENV 4 - William Allis Moseley (1851-1930) and his sister Mary Arkansas

                           Moseley  (1845-1928) 1927 picture

 

 File 13-ENV 1 - The Dee Newton Family – 1. J Eustase Newton, 2. Oriana Stone

                           Newton, 3. Robert D. Newton, 4. Capt. Newton, 5. John Boddie

                           Newton, 6. Martha Rivers Newton

 

            ENV 2 - Oriana Stone Newton (1838-1927) Wife of Captain Dee Newton

 

            ENV 3 - Captain De Newton (1835-1898) husband of Oriana Stone came to

                           Arkansas with the William Stone Family – Great-grandmother of

                           Senator David Pryor

         

            ENV 4 - Mary Gilder Coleman Bagwell daughter of Mary Elizabeth “Mamie”

                           Boddie Coleman c. 1930’s

 

            ENV 5 - Godfrey Coleman son of Mary Elizabeth “Mamie” Boddie Coleman 

                            c.1920’s

 

File 14-ENV 1 - John Rumph Boddie c. 1870’s

 

            ENV 2 - John Rumph Boddie 1848-1929 son of George Boddie and Mary

                           Elizabeth Gildersleeve  Boddie (circa) 1920’s

 

            ENV 3 - The George Boddie Home – Harmony Grove four miles northeast of

                           Camden, Ark. (I lived in this house in early 1930’s – Ruth B. Farmer)

                           Picture from painting of Grady Bagwell, grandson of Mamie Boddie and

                           Edwin Coleman, in 1927. House burned in late 1930’s

 

            ENV 4 - Annie Waitie Marie Butler Boddie (1888-1964) daughter of John R.

                           Butler and Kate Clardy and George Kimball Smoker Boddie (circa)

                           1912

 

File 15-ENV 1 - John Franklin Dunlap (1928-1898) Husband of Clara Dickson Dunlap

                           1859

 

            ENV 2 - Dick Dunlop with wife and child- Brother of John Franklin Dunlop, who

                           cared for Clara Dunlap and children while John was away during the

                           Civil War

 

            ENV 3 - John B. Dunlap – age 14 (1875-1895) Son of Clara and John Franklin

                            Dunlap

 

            ENV 4 - D. Carey and John B. Dunlop (1875-1895) in Atlanta, Ga. Where John

                           B. attended school

 

File 16-ENV 1 - Dennis Lafayette Gaughan 1858-1935 (circa) 1920’s

             

             ENV 2 - At Gaughan Home 1910 – See back of Photo for identification

                           L-R Dr. Bragg, T. J. Gaughan, unidentified man,Helen Bragg Gaughan

                           (2nd wife of T. J. Gaughan) with a Gaughan daughter, Robert Minor

                           Wallace, U. S. Congressman of the district William Jennings Bryan

 

             ENV 3 - Thomas Joseph Gaughan 1864-1939 (circa) 1900’s

 

             ENV 4 - Belle Ferguson Gaughan (circa) 1920’s

 

File 17-ENV 1 - Patrick Gaughan (circa) 1880’s

 

             ENV 2 - Mary Gaughan (baby) Anna Moseley and Jim Gaughan – early 1890’s

 

             ENV 3 - Lula Higgins Gaughan 1st Wife of T. J. Gaughan (1866-1896) (circa)

                           1880’s

 

            ENV 4 - Sarah Carolina Patterson Gaughan 1832-1912 (circa) Early 1900’s

 

File 18-ENV 1 - George Gildersleeve Boddie (1853-1886) Son of George Boddie and

                           Mary Elizabeth Gildersleeve Boddie, Died in June, 1886 alone in  

                           Austin, TX of Typhoid Fever

 

             ENV 2 - Mary Elizabeth Gildersleeve Boddie 1824-1900 (circa) 1870’s

 

             ENV 3 - Mary Elizabeth Gildersleeve Boddie and her grandson George Kimball

                            Smoker Boddie – Picture 1884 – Farmer?

 

              ENV 4 - George Kimball Smoker Boddie (1878-1951) Son of George Boddie

                             and Mary Elizabeth Gildersleeve Boddie – picture 1886

 

             ENV 5 - George Kimball Smoker Boddie (1878-1951) Picture 1882 - Son of

                            John Rumph Boddie and Cornelia Smoker Boddie

 

File 19-ENV 1 - Cara Lee Dunlap 1868-1941 – Daughter of Clara Dickson and John

                           Dunlap

          

             ENV 2 - Cora Lee Dunlap 1868-1941 – Daughter of John Dunlap and Clara

                            Dickson (circa) 1880

 

             ENV 3 - Lula Dunlap 1862-1919 – Daughter of Clara Dickson and John Dunlap

                            Married 1888 McDuff Martin (circa) 1880’s

 

            ENV 4 - Lula Dunlap (1862-1919) daughter of Clara Dickson and John Franklin

                           Dunlap c. 1870’s

 

           ENV 5 - Robert Lee Boddie (“Tug”) and Wife Sallie Higgins Farley Boddie

                          (1870-1943) Virginia Lee Boddie Patterson – Granddaughter of Robert

                          and Sallie Mary Catherine Boddie Paul daughters of Boddie Jr.

                          1898-1950 – 1930’s

 

File 20-ENV 1- Mary Elizabeth “Mamie” Boddie (1855-1929) 1st daughter of George

                          Boddie and Mary Elizabeth Gildersleeve Boddie.  Married Edwin Gallee

                          Coleman, M.D. Son of Judge Hawse H. Coleman – 5 June 1877 (circa)

                          1870’s

          

            ENV 2 - Frances Caroline “Carrie” Boddie Moseley – 1860-1892 (circa) 1880’s

 

            ENV 3 - George Kimball Smoker Boddie (1878-1851) Son of John Rumph

                           Boddie and Cornelia Smoker Boddie at Vanderbilt University,

                           Nashville, Tenn. 1907

 

File 21-ENV 1 - Bookmark sent to Cornelia S. Dickson by John Rumph Boddie her

                           Nephew

           

             ENV 2 - Sword awarded to S. H. N. Dickson when he was a member of the

                            official escort for General Lafayette when he came back to the States in

                            1828

 

File 22-ENV 1 - Fred Hughes Coleman, Col. b. 1881 – Graduated West Point, 1904

                           Married abt. 1911 Helen Moorehouse

 

             ENV 2 - Cora Dunlop Martin 1868-1941 daughter of Clara Dickson and John

                            Dunlap – Wife of James (Jim) Walter Martin (circa 1880’s

 

File 23-ENV 1 - Martha Hodge Proctor Rumph “Matt” 3rd Wife of John Benjamin

                            Rumph (1850-1925)

 

             ENV 2 - Bettie Rumph daughter of Dr. John Benjamin Rumph died in 1880

                            c. late 1870’s

 

             ENV 3 - The Rumph Sisters – 1st Row-Hattie, Bessie, Mittie, Lillian

                            2nd Row – Eugenia, Attalie, Maud – Daughters of Dr. John Benjamin

                            Rumph – c. 1880’s or 90’s

                           

File 24-Boddie Family Photograph Album

 

End of Box 1

 

 

Box 2

 

File 1- Correspondence

 

File 2 – George Boddie Papers

 

File 3 – Personal Correspondence to Cornelia Dickson, Mary Boddie & Others, Late

             1800’s to early 1900’s

 

File 4 – Newspaper Clippings, 1880

 

File 5 – Book, Autauga County: The First Hundred Years 1818-1918

 

File 6 – Tulip Letters, 1877, 1880

 

File 7 – Journal of Cornelia S. Dickson, 1863-1865

 

File 8 – Journal of Cornelia S. Dickson, 1870’s

 

File 9 – Poem From 1870

 

End of Box 2

End of Collection

 

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