Dates: ca. 1950s-1970s.

Biography:

Allie Knox Cubley was born in Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi, on October 9, 1889. She was the daughter of Sidney Knox and Sarah Elizabeth Small Cubley of Jones County, Mississippi. Cubley married Charlie Williamson Smiley on August 21, 1910. The couple resided in Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi, where they were employed by the railroad as a bookkeeper and stenographer, respectively. The Smileys had two children, a daughter, Martha Elizabeth, and a son, Charles Elwyn, who died in infancy. Two years after her divorce from Smiley, Allie Cubley Smiley married Rudolph Alvaro Bridges LeNoir in 1927. Allie Cubley LeNoir was a genealogical researcher and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter, Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, Commodore Perry Chapter, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. She resided in Petal, Forrest County, Mississippi, in 1970s.

 
Scope and Content Note:

This collection consists of the correspondence and genealogical research of Allie Knox Cubley Smiley LeNoir. The collection is focused on LeNoirs research on the Anderson, Berry, Cubley, Knox, McConnell, and Pace families of Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and England.

 
Series Identification:

Series 1: Papers (Personal). 1957-1972; n.d. 6 folders.
This series contains correspondence, research notes, supplemental applications of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter, and programs and newsclippings of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The research notes contain extensive information on James Knox Polk, as well as the Anderson, Cubley, Knox, and Small families. The correspondence is addressed to various agencies and individuals, all concerning LeNoir's genealogical research and resources. LeNoir's supplemental applications to the United Daughters of the Confederacy trace her lines of descent from David Carroll Haggard, Monroe Jarvis, and Cornelius Reziah Pace, as well as other members of the Haggard and Pace families. The United Daughters of the Confederacy programs and newsclippings are related to the 1971 annual convention.

Box 1, folders 1-6
 

Series 2: Genealogical Research (Allied Families). 1961-1973; n.d. 37 folders.
This series is organized into subseries by the following families: Anderson, Berry, Cubley, Knox, McConnell, and Pace. There is also a subseries for cousins of LeNoir.

Boxes 1 and 2

Subseries 2.1: Genealogical Research (Cubley Family). 1961-1971; n.d. 4 folders.

This subseries contains research material on the Cubley family and the allied Ezell and Small families of Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and England. The Cubley family research material consists of correspondence and notes, typescripts of Cubley family narratives, and a typewritten copy of the memoirs of Corrie Cubley Gilmore. The Small family research material contains correspondence and notes concerning the interrelationship of the Cubley and Small families.

Box 1, folders 7-10
 

Subseries 2.2: Genealogical Research (Knox Family). 1964-1970; n.d. 4 folders.

This subseries consists of correspondence and research notes on the Knox family, as well as research notes on James and John Knox and their descendants. Also included is a newspaper article on the Knox family of Chester County, South Carolina.

Box 1, folders 11-14
 

Subseries 2.3: Genealogical Research (Pace Family). 1963-1973; n.d. 6 folders.

This subseries contains correspondence and research notes concerning the Pace family and the allied Haggard and Jarvis families. There are copies of Pace Society newsletters and correspondence and blank stationery concerning Abner W. Pace.

Box 2, folders 1-6
 

Subseries 2.4: Genealogical Research (Anderson Family). n.d. 1 folder.

This subseries consists of a notebook labeled "Family of James Young Anderson, son of James and Jane Anderson." The notebook has extensive notes on the Anderson family and also mentions the Pace family.

Box 2, folder 7
 

Subseries 2.5: Genealogical Research (McConnell Family). 1972-1973; n.d. 2 folders.

This subseries contains correspondence and research notes relating to the McConnell family. Also included are supplemental applications of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Commodore Perry Chapter, a Revolutionary War pension application for Abraham McConnell, and a typewritten copy of a McConnell family history.

Box 2, folders 8-9
 

Subseries 2.6: Genealogical Research (Berry Family). 1960-1967; n.d. 1 folder.

This subseries consists of a pedigree chart for Alene Thompson Redinger and a typewritten copy of a Berry family history.

Box 2, folder 10
 

Subseries 2.7: Genealogical Research (Cousins). 1962-1971; n.d. 19 folders.

This subseries contains the contents of an envelope originally labeled "cousins" by LeNoir. The materials mainly consist of requests to the National Archives and Records Service for military records of members of the Haggard, Knox, McConnell, and Pace families and United Daughters of the Confederacy lineage worksheets.

Box 2, folders 11-29