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This collection includes newspaper clippings and oral history interviews concerning Sarah Gudger, an African American woman from the Swannanoa Valley who claimed to live 122 years. The collection also includes her obituary from October 20, 1938.

This collection includes newspaper clippings and a certificate of death of Annie Daugherty, one of the main midwives for the town of Black Mountain in the early 1900s.

Information about enslaved people who lived at the Vance Birthplace. Census records are often of little help when researching enslaved people. The earliest records only count the number of slaves, with no regard to age or gender. Although the details…

This collection includes the "David Vance Estate Sale Announcement" and "Scan of Estate Sale Document Listing Enslaved Persons." The latter document lists the sale of Venice, Leah and her children, and Ann to M. M. Vance for a total of $1327.00.

This collection about Aggy, one of Vance's slaves, includes David Vance Sr.'s Will of 1813, a letter from Mira M. Vance to Margaret, and Priscilla Vance's Will of 1835. In David Vance Sr.'s will, he explains what to do with his slave men and women…

The document about the slave Venus in this collection is actually a story of Venus from the Clement Dowd biography. It is one page 13 of Life of Vance. Dowd describes Venus as the "warm-hearted old servant who helped rear the children." A footnote…

The first document in this collection is a book entitled Holston Methodism. Pages 206-209 of the book talk about the Vances and page 209 addresses Leah and Sandy Erwin. The second document in this collection is the Cohabitation Records of Leah and…

This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning the African American community. African American women mentioned in this collection include Inez Daugherty, Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden, Hazel Turner, Lucy Herring, and others.

This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning African American history. African American women mentioned in this collection include Sarah Gudger, Kat Debrow, Lucy S. Herring, Inez Daugherty, and Oralene Graves.

This collection includes newspaper clippings concerning slavery in Buncombe County. Notable African American women in this collection include Shayda Vance, Sarah Gudger, and Fannie Moore, among others.