| Scope and content |
Collection consists of eight manuscripts, which were likely intended to be chapters of a book based on Jones's reminiscences. A brief letter by Jones's daughter, Kathleen, serves as a preface for the manuscripts. The manuscripts focus on the following eight themes: Lenoir County and North Carolina politics of the 1880s; rural education in Lenoir County, including descriptions of the hiring of teachers, the school house, and school curriculum; events, such as the hanging of an African American and the unveiling of a monument of former governor Richard Caswell; Jones's childhood pastimes; country cookery; hog slaughtering; Jones's medical practice in a rural community; and various aspects of life of the 1880s in Lenoir County, including social activities, popular fashions of the time, and the sale of possessions upon the death of a resident. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
James Lewis Jones Manuscript (#473), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mr. G. T. Whitfield. |
| Biographical note | James Lewis Jones, born October 12, 1869, was the son of W. A. Jones, a Lenoir County, N.C., farmer, and his wife Carrie. In his later years, Jones wrote several manuscripts about life in Lenoir County before 1900, relating his experiences as a boy and a young adult. |
