By Peg Niedholdt
Title: Ferebee Genealogy Collection, 1860s-1990s
Predominant Dates:1910-1954
ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-012
Primary Creator: Ferebee, Annie Adelia (1878-1941)
Other Creators: Ferebee, Sarah Cason (1894-1991)
Extent: 27.0 Boxes
Arrangement: The first part of the collection contains the research for the Ferebee Family book. The book is divided into Sections #1 through #64, and the research is filed the same way. The second part of the collection is research for the female lines filed alphabetically. The third part of the collection contains additional notebooks, calendars, photographs, and the Ferebee Family Bible, ending with an oversized assortment of genealogical charts and diplomas.
Date Acquired: 03/24/2005. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Family trees, Ferebee family, Genealogy, Genealogy--Research, Norfolk (Va.), Virginia--Genealogy
Forms of Material: Bibles, Booklets, Calendars, Certificates, Clippings (information artifacts), Daguerreotypes (photographs), Diaries, Diplomas, Genealogies (histories), Maps (documents), Notebooks, Obituaries, Pedigrees, Photocopies, Photographs, Sketches
Languages: English
A genealogical collection of the Ferebee family, created by Annie Adelia Ferebee and continued by her niece, Sarah Cason Ferebee. This collection contains their research manuscripts, notes, photographs, correspondence, obituaries, articles, and Sarah's personal copy of the Ferebee book with her many notations. Most of the items in this collection are photocopies and research copies acquired from various sources.
The Ferebee Genealogy Collection includes information organized by Annie that her family compiled in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The collection also includes mid-1930s correspondence in which Annie mailed letters to the Ferebees descended from John Ferebee, Gentleman (circa 1630-1705) and his eldest son Thomas Ferebee (1682-1739). Also included are records from Annie’s and Sarah’s genealogical trips throughout Virginia and North Carolina where they researched records, interviewed relatives, and discovered family gravesites. The collection includes genealogical research and notes on the male Ferebee line, started by Annie Ferebee, and successively published in 1954 by Sarah Ferebee in the book Ferebee Family. Remarkably, this duo of family genealogists also researched the female lines of the Ferebee family; their research notes on the female lines are also included.
The collection contains comprehensive research dating to 1360 England with the ancestors of John Ferebee, Gentleman; his lineage is covered in the first part of the Ferebee book. The American lineage starts with John Ferebee, Gentleman, surveyor of the City of Norfolk in 1688. The first 54 sections were researched by both Annie and Sarah, and the remaining sections were added by Sarah and published in 1954. Sarah also did extensive work on both sides of her mother's family, Annie Terrell Cook Ferebee (1863-1826). From the handwriting, some of the notes may have been done by Mrs. Ferebee. Sarah Cason Ferebee was dedicated to recording, correcting, and compiling information on the Ferebee family up to her passing at the age of 97. All of this research is included in the Ferebee Genealogy Collection.
Ferebee family members also assisted with this collection through the years. Notebooks and diaries of family research trips are included in this collection. The first item in the Ferebee Genealogy Collection is an alphabetical index of names with book Section #s and their corresponding box and folder number, which was compiled by the finding aid author.
Repository: Sargeant Memorial Collection
Accruals: Connolly Phillips donated an additional box of genealogy research materials to SMC on July 22, 2016.
Access Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.
Use Restrictions: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.) Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Source: Mrs. Betsy Ferebee Phillips by donation
Related Publications: Ferebee, Annie A. and Sarah C. Ferebee. Ferebee Family. Norfolk, VA: Sarah C. Ferebee, 1955.
Preferred Citation: Ferebee Genealogy Collection, MSS 0000-012, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information: Processed January 2019.
This manuscript covers the following information:
Henry Perkins and Ann Ferebee Records.
William Muncreef and Martha Ferebee Records.
Joseph Baxter and Mary Ferebee Records.
Arthur Turten and Sarah Ferebee Records.
William Reiley Abbott and Clarinda Ferebee (Williams) Records.
William Old and Maria Ferebee Records.
James Cowell and Elizabeth Ferebee Records.
Benjamin Cowell, J.M. Burgess, and Amanda Ferebee Records.
David Manning, John Ballentine, William Thompson, and Sarah Ferebee Records.
John Humphries Jr. and Martha Ferebee Records.
John Humphries III, William G. Wilson, and Adelia Ferebee Records.
James McBride Old and Huldah Ferebee Records.
Nashville B. Poyner and Mary Adeline Ferebee Records.
William Harvey Patrick and Mary Louisa Ferebee Records.
William Cosey Etheridge and Huldah Ferebee Records.
Joseph Etheridge Cartwright Bell Records.
Elihu Woodhouse and Penelope Ferebee Records.
George W. Vaughan and Cottie May Ferebee Records.
Peter Sawyer and Annie Ferebee Records.
Josephius Waters and Frances Lucinda Ferebee Records.
Wiley O'Kelly Walker and Mary Elizabeth Ferebee Records.
Claudius Caesar Walker and Sarah Ella Ferebee Records
Sam Lamb, Willis Sawyer Grandy, and Sarah Elizabeth Ferebee Records.
Thomas Fabius Grandy and Marietta Cowper Ferbee Records
Edward B. Ives and Fannie Ferebee Records.
Edward R. Jackson and Lucy Ferebee Records.
John Wesley Halstead and Ellen Callis Ferebee Records.
Tully Bell and Penelope Ferebee Records.
George F. Overman and Sarah Dauge Ferebee Records.
Apolis Oscar Dey and Missouri A. Ferebee Records.
John E. Barnard and Mary Virginia Ferebee Records.
Dr. Beverley Randolph Kennon and Ruth Ferebee Records.
William Stamps Howard and Mary McPherson Ferebee.
Leonides C. Taylor and Martha Gregory Ferebee Records.
Dr. Robert L. McMurran and Margaret Ferebee Records.
Waverly Lee Berkley and Judith Elizabeth Ferebee Records.
