WILLIAM ALEXANDER HOKE PAPERS, #345, 1750-1925
Professional and personal correspondence, records, grants, deeds, wills, and other
materials of Hoke, a Lincolnton, North Carolina, jurist, Democrat, justice, and chief
justice, and of the Hoke, Alexander, and Wilson families. Papers relate to the raid on
Harper's Ferry (1859); abolitionists (n.d.); the hiring of slaves (1865); and the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina (1872, 1874). Included are slave bills of sale (1820s- 1850s); the reminiscences of
Sallie Badger Hoke of Julia, a former slave nurse who had belonged to the Hoke family
(1890s); and a register of the African-American Sunday School at St. Luke's, Lincolnton,
North Carolina (1880s-1890s).
