Lenoir County NcArchives History .....Introduction 
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Martha M. Marble http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00022.html#0005285 January 30, 2014, 9:45 am

INTRODUCTION TO THE WHITFIELD GRADY COLLECTION

The Whitfield Grady Collection is presently in the possession of Nancy Harper 
Satterfield and her sisters, Barbara H. Novicki, Susan H. Glover and Frances H. 
Gooden who have generously allowed the Collection to be scanned and transcribed.  
The sisters are the 3rd great granddaughters of Whitfield and Elizabeth Kornegay 
Grady. They have also donated property to HPS where the first Battle of Kinston 
was fought. According to the article by Council Jarman in the Lenoir Co. 
Heritage Book, and the family Bible, Whitfield Grady was the son of Frederick 
and Elizabeth Durham Grady of Duplin Co.  Whitfield’s first wife and the mother 
of his children was Elizabeth Kornegay, daughter of William and Charlotte Daniel 
or O’Daniel Kornegay of Duplin Co.  His 2nd wife was Nancy Jane Mercer.  This 
Collection indicates she was the widow of Kinsey Whaley.  The Grady family moved 
to the Woodington area of Lenoir County and were very prominent not only in 
Woodington but across the area.  

The Collection consists of letters, some estate records, church records, 
personal papers of the Grady Family, and numerous receipts both from Lenoir and 
Duplin Counties.  Although many of the receipts are common ones of the time, 
some are related to estates, churches, and debts. The old Whitfield Grady home 
is still in existence and the well kept cemetery is in the yard.  They are owned 
by Beth Kennedy Philips, a 4th great granddaughter.  

We learn from this Collection new information, ie there may not have been a Post 
Office called “Woodington”  but instead the local Post Office appears, at least 
for a time, to have been called Sandy Foundation.  We thank Ms. Satterfield and 
her sisters for their dedication to their family heritage and for sharing that 
information with the public.  A special thanks to Sloan Spence Mason who scanned 
the entire Collection in one day while at Heritage Place and Jo Huettl who 
copied it for LCC.  Jane Phillips and Martha Marble assisted in the copying of 
the Collection for LCC.  Many are working on the transcripts of the Collection 
which is large and like most documents from the early to 19th century, are very 
difficult to read due to the handwriting, spelling, and age. Documents such as 
letters and church records often take at least an hour each to attempt to 
decipher and still there will be many question marks.

Uploading the transcripts/abstracts with the scans is a complex procedure which 
entails a different format than normal with a Collection.  The scans allow the 
researcher to make their own abstract.  The late Ima E. Mewborn said if you have 
three people working an abstract you will have three different versions at the 
end.  Some of these scans have been abstracted by more than one person – by 
accident – so this gives the researcher the opportunity to see slightly 
different abstracts for the same document. 

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