Archival Materials

5 Hollinger boxes and 1 oversize flat box; 2.08 linear feet

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This collection is unprocessed. Inventory available at Olivia Raney Local History Library.

Eileen Mallon Ives (1940-1998) conducted extensive genealogical research on multiple families across the United States, personally travelling to all forty-eight contiguous states and collecting a wide range of genealogical information and original documents spanning 1612-1996, with the bulk of the information dating from 1612-1895.

The collection contains genealogical research material on the following families of Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, and Texas: Aikman, Archer, Flake, Fort, Hart, Harrison, Knight, Parker, Rand, Randolph, Harris, Stokes, Trayler/Traylor, and Wilkinson.

The collection contains general research, family research, a collection of original documents, and wills spanning 1612-1996.

The Eileen Mallon Ives Papers range in date from 1612-1996, with the bulk of the records dating from 1612-1895. The collection is arranged into Genealogical Records which consists of general research, family research, original documents, and wills.

Families included in this collectiona are: Aikman, Archer, Flake, Fort, Harrison, Hart, Knight, Lile, Parker, Rand, Randolph, Stokes, Trayler(Traylor), and Wilkinson.

Of note in the collection are nine original documents dating from 1753-1895 which consist of deeds, land grants, and wills.

Gift of James H. Ives in 1997.

09/12/1998 at State Archives, 10/13/1998 at Olivia Raney.

#2004.034

Eileen Mallon Ives was born in Detroit in 1940 to Arlena A. Trayler of Smithfield, North Carolina and John Mallon of Ireland. Eileen's mother Arlena conducted extensive genealogical research on her family roots until 1953 when she passed away. Losing both of her parents before the age of fifteen, Eileen, like her mother Arlena, became interested in genealogy and embarked on a journey in a motorhome to follow in her family's footsteps. Over the course of one year, Eileen travelled 35,000 miles across the contiguous United States, touching all forty-eight states and ammassing an extrordinary amount of genealogical information on multiple families in the process.

Eileen was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the American Colonies, and the Decendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge. She was also the editor of "Coast Chatter", the monthly newsletter of the Central Coast Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Eileen was the Great-Granddaughter of Oscar Ripley Rand (1860-1904) who figures prominently in the collection.

Eileen Mallon Ives passed away in 1998 and her extensive collection of genealogical research was donated by her husband, James H. Ives, to the Olivia Raney Local History Library in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Finding aid available at Olivia Raney Local History Library

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