1902 application for Mrs. Edgar Smith to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Nearly two dozen new folders and notebooks have been added to DigitalNC, courtesy of our partner, the Braswell Memorial Library. Coming from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the North Carolina Division, Bethel Heroes Chapter, this new batch contains group applications, membership petitions, and meeting minutes dating back to 1902. While most of them belong to the specific Bethel Heroes chapter in Rocky Mount, there are some applications from other states like Florida. This batch is massive, with materials stretching throughout nearly the entire twentieth century, from 1902 to 1994.

These notebooks and folders give us a good idea of what it meant to be a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at that time. It is so important for us to archive this material so that we’re able to figure out what their members found important and noteworthy. The collection of meeting minutes can be found here, and the membership petitions are found here.

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