Shirley Moragne Fleming genealogy materials

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS-283

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

One scrapbook containing genealogy charts, certificates, 2 typed manuscripts and reproductions of Fleming family photographs. This contains two photographs in presentation boxes, two photographs and four oversize photographs of Fleming ancestors

Dates

Created: 1944-2005
Other: Majority of material found in 1944-2005
Other: Date acquired: 05/19/2009

Creator

Fleming, Shirley Moragne (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

no restrictions

Biographical or Historical Information

This collection was transferred to Special Collections on May 2, 2009 from Berry College Archives, they having received it from Anne Combs of Lexington, Kentucky in February 2009. Anne Combs was a cousin of Shirley Moragne Fleming. Shirley Moragne Fleming (December 2, 1929-March 10, 2005) was the daughter of Berry and Anne Fleming of Augusta GA. Berry Fleming was a novelist who was considered one of best of his generation of Southern writers. Nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 for Captain Bennett’s Folly, his best known novel was Colonel Effingham’s Raid. A graduate of Smith College, Ms. Fleming was a writer and music critic. Most of her professional career was spent in New York, chiefly as the editor of Musical America from 1967-1991, but she also wrote for High Fidelity, the New York Times and the New York Post, among other publications, and was a respected judge of piano and violin competitions with an international reputation. Ms. Fleming had returned to Augusta, GA at the time of her death and was survived by numerous cousins, one of whom was Anne Combs. It is assumed that Ms. Combs first offered this collection to Berry College because of a link between Daisy Beldon Berry Fleming, Ms Fleming’s grandmother, and Martha Berry, the founder of Berry College, but the exact link was not specified and must still be discovered.

Note written by

Extent

1.00 boxes

Language

English

Additional Description

Arrangement Note

One scrapbook entitled Memorandum for Shirley Eight genealogy charts The appointment of T. P. [Thomas Porter] Fleming a Junior Second Lieutenant in the Oglethorpe Infantry from April 2, 1890, dated May 5, 1890 and signed by Jonathan B. Gordon, Governor of Georgia. The appointment of Porter Fleming a Captain in the Oglethorpe Infantry of the Georgia Volunteers from May 7, 1895, dated June 4, 1895 and signed by William Y. Atkinson, Governor of Georgia Mrs. Stebbins version of Berry Fleming’s horoscope, June 15, 1944 “Class Life” for 25^th Anniversary Report of the class of 1922 at Harvard – January 1947, Typewritten manuscript by Berry Fleming Sheet of newspaper clippings Series of family photographs (Photographs were probably captioned by Anne Molloy Fleming or Berry Fleming) Robert Fleming o Margaret Blanton Caine Moragne o James Mason o William Caine Moragne – 1862 o Jiles Marion Berry – 1859 o Jiles Marion Berry and Sarah Elizabeth Coleman – 1866 o Jiles Marion Berry -1875 o Jiles Marion Berry – 1905 o Jiles Marion Berry – 1910 o Patrick Henry Molloy – 1880 o Dr. Patrick Henry Molloy – 1920 o Porter Fleming – 1895 o Daisy o Daisy Belden Berry – 1895 o Daisy Belden Berry – 1895 o Daisy – 1898 o Daisy Berry Fleming – 1898 o Daisy – 1905 o Elizabeth Moragne Fleming and Edna – 1906 o Eleanor Boatwright, Anne Shirley Molloy Fleming, Shirley Moragne Fleming – 1946 o Picture of house under construction o Daisy Berry Fleming, Elizabeth Moragne, Jiles Berry [Berry Fleming] – 1906 o Photocopies of microfilm of an original document written by Colonel Francis Flournoy Jackson 8 pages o Typewritten inventory of the estate of Jules M. Berry o Typewritten inventory of the estate of Porter Fleming o Typewritten inventory of the estate of Daisy Berry Fleming 2 photographs of Daisy Berry Leather presentation case with velvet lining framed hand tinted photograph of Jiles Berry and Sarah Elizabeth Coleman. Glass is beveled to create a three dimensional effect. Possibly a crystoleum, a variant albumen print process that resembles a painting on glass by coloring details and background on the back (Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn et al. Photographs: Archival Care and Management. Chicago: Society of American Archivists 2006 p. 41) Picture of Sarah Coleman wife of Jiles Berry tintype in presentation case Oversized photographs in map case