Wilse Frazier Memoir

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Wilse Frazier Memoir, Ms2009-118, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Gregory, Helen and Fulgham, Robert
Abstract:
This collection contains a memoir written by Robert Schmidt Fulghum and Helen Caulfield Madine Gregory titled, "Wilse Frazier: Remembrances of a Former Slave." The memoir details the later years of Mr. Frazier's life as he worked at "The Woodlands," a former plantation near Clopper, Maryland.
Language:
The material in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Wilse Frazier Memoir, Ms2009-118, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains a memoir written by Robert Schmidt Fulghum and Helen Caulfield Madine Gregory titled, "Wilse Frazier: Remembrances of a Former Slave." The memoir details the later years of Mr. Frazier's life as he worked at "The Woodlands," a former plantation near Clopper, Maryland. The memoir also describes the authors' relationships with Wilse Frazier, as well as Frazier's daily routine. In addition to the four pages of text, this memoir contains color photocopies of pictures and a bibliography.

Biographical / historical:

Wilse Frazier was born an enslaved person around 1840 and worked for the majority of the later years of his life on the former plantation "The Woodlands" near Clopper, Maryland. Frazier lived to the age of 110, passing away around 1949.

Robert Schmidt Fulghum is a retired professor of Microbiology and Medicine at Eastern Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Fulghum and his cousin Helen Caulfield Madine Gregory authored the memoir.

Acquisition information:
The Wilse Frazier Memoir was donated to Special Collections in 2001.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Wilse Frazier Memoir commenced and was completed in August 2009.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by material type.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard