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3 <br />• HeritageQuest provides selected records of Revolutionary War Era Pension and <br />Bounty -Land Warrant Application Files. Additionally, it provides "Freedman <br />Bank Records" -which was founded to serve African Americans following the <br />Civil War. <br />• Ancestry.com provides an extended coverage of the U.S. Census, not covered in <br />Heritage Quest. Additionally, it provides draft records of WWI and WWII, when <br />available. Records of birth, death and marriages are also available through <br />Ancestry.cdm. <br />• ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It <br />includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of <br />libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. <br />Attachment D <br />Curator NC Collection -UNC Wilson Library Visit Staff met with Eileen McGrath, the <br />curator of the NC Collection of UNC Wilson Library. The curator reviewed the materials <br />in the NC Room collection and found them to be historical in nature, however she found <br />no unique items in the collection. The curator also mentioned that minimum <br />preservation practices were acceptable for the materials housed in the new library. <br />Attachment E <br />Leland Little Auction Visit: The library received an appraisal of the Confederate Triad <br />currently on display in the NC Room from Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales. While <br />being considered unique, if not rare, it is still considered a "clever novelty" that might <br />have been commissioned for a gathering of Confederate veterans or for display at an <br />exposition. They value it at $1,000 based upon today's auction market. A copy of this <br />appraisal has been provided to Pam Jones for insurance purposes. Attachment F <br />Rebecca Wall bequest: Attorney Geoff Gledhill reviewed the will and bequest of <br />Rebecca Wall as well as Orange County Library Board minutes to determine the funding <br />designations and possible use of the funds received and invested since 1986. <br />Will stipulations <br />"I will, devise and bequeath to the Orange County Confederate Memorial Public Library <br />of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the sum of Fifty Thousand and no/100 Dollars ($50, 000) <br />provided that a History Room in the said library, whether in the existing library building <br />presently being used or in any other building to be used by the said library as a library, <br />be names and designated as "Rebecca 8 Wall Room". A portrait of Thomas Ruffin's law <br />office, shown on a round tray and painted by me to be displayed in the said "Rebecca B <br />Wall Room"." <br />Library Board minutes of October 13, 1982 -excerpt <br />"Mrs. Massey told the Board about a conversation with Mr. Osterman in which he <br />asserted that Miss Wall was planning to leave a sizeable bequest to the Orange County <br />Public Library upon her death if certain conditions were met by the library board. The <br />board directed Mrs. Massey to meet with Lonnie Coleman, Miss Wall's attorney, to find <br />out if there is additional information the board should have concerning the bequest." <br />Library Board minutes of January 20, 1983 -excerpt <br />"Under unfinished business Mrs. Massey reported on her conversation with Mr. Lonnie <br />Coleman in which he assured her that Miss Rebecca Wall did intend to make a sizeable <br />contribution to the Orange County Public Library upon her death. Mrs. Massey showed <br />the Board the hand-painted plaque which Miss Wall has already given to the library. <br />3 <br />