Consisting chiefly of personal and family papers of four generations of the McLure family, in particular the descendants of John William McLure (1831-1916), and his wife, Jane Poulton McLure (1829-1912), concerning business matters and J.W. McClure's service as second lieutenant with Company G, 5th South Carolina Infantry, and later as quartermaster, Jenkins' Palmetto Sharpshooters during the Civil War. Includes volume, 1986, personal name index compiled by Sarah P. Carroll [Mrs. John Phillip], with genealogical notes re the McLure and Poulton families and a historical sketch of the Church of the Nativity in Union compiled by Mary Bailey McLure Butt; and undated manuscript containing genealogical information on the McLure, Stringfellow, Buford, Ragsdale and Parrat families. Also includes correspondence with Poulton family relatives in New York and Canada; business correspondence, 1851-1909, of William J. Kennan (d. 1865), William Stringfellow McLure (1866-1945), and others relating to mercantile buying trips to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and the operation of the Pacolet Gold Mine Company; receipts for cotton sales by Charleston, S.C., cotton factors, including Rice, Sims & Barksdale, John & John D. Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick & White, and A.J. Salinas & Son; and miscellaneous items documenting the McLure and Dawkins families' association with the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Union, S.C. Correspondents include Ann Allen Poulton Clark, Mary Poulton Dawkins, Thomas N. Dawkins, Katherine C. Dorsey, Robert Julius Gage, Eliza Poulton Ladshaw, Arthur Poulton McLure, Eliza McLure, Estelle Diffenduffer McLure, Amelia Thornton Stringfellow McLure Rainey, and Mary McLure Rosborough.