MURRELL FAMILY COLLECTION
1883-1993

East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, TN 37614-1701

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INTRODUCTION

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Murrell Family Collection was donated to the Archives of Appalachia in 1993 by Pauline Murrell Stone of Johnson City, Tennessee.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: Processing of the collection was completed in 1996 by Georgia Greer.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Napoleon Lafayette Murrell born September 25, 1859 in Kentucky and married Nannie Massey Snyder born January 11, 1870. Murrell was a book salesman for the Methodist Publishing Company and met Nannie Snyder when he stayed at Snyder House in Elizabethton. There were three children born to the union, Orin Roger Murrell (died at two years of age of meningitis), Hugh Loftus Murrell (born February 14, 1893), and Pauline Murrell Stone (born February 25, 1908).

In 1897, the Murrells leased the Cloudland Hotel on Roan Mountain and ran the hotel for ten summers. The Murrells ran the Lynnwood Hotel in Elizabethton from 1907-1909. They then leased and operated the Colonial Hotel in Johnson City, Tennessee from the St. John family from 1910-1920. The Colonial Hotel contained 166 rooms with 132 rooms being bedrooms. In 1920, they left Johnson City and went to Unaka for six months, then left to run Hotel Marion in Marion, Virginia.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Murrell Family Collection contains Colonial Hotel menus, newsclippings, receipts, two audio tapes, and photographs pertaining to the Murrell family.

Organization: The collection is divided into three series: Series I, Menus, Newsclippings, and Receipts, Folders 1-3, 1896-1987; Series II, Pauline Murrell Stone Interview, Folder 4, 1993; and Series III, Photographs, Folder 5-6, 1883-1927.

Important subjects covered in the collection include:

Atwater, Fannie, 1869-1945
Cloudland Hotel
Colonial Hotel (Johnson City, Tenn.)
Deaderick, A. V.
Deaderick, Addie
Lynnwood Hotel (Elizabethton, Tenn.)
Murrell, N. L. (Napoleon Lafayette), 1859-1922
Murrell, Hugh Loftus
Peoples, Katheryne Adams
Pippin, Sherman
Roan Mountain (N.C. and Tenn.)
Shell, Frank
Shell, Oley
Snyder, Elizabeth Brewer
Snyder, Henry Helm
Snyder House (Elizabethton, Tenn.)
Unaka Springs Hotel (Unaka Springs, Tenn.)

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I, MENUS, NEWSCLIPPINGS, AND RECEIPTS, 1896-1987, Box 1.

Series I contains menus from the Colonial Hotel, newsclippings of the Cloudland Hotel and Unaka Springs Hotel, and receipts dating 1896-1909. The material are arranged alphabetically by subject or document type.

Series II, PAULINE MURRELL STONE INTERVIEW, 1993, Box 1.

Series II contains two audio tapes, a microcassette tape, and a cassette tape copy of the interview of Pauline Murrell Stone conducted by Norma Myers.

Series III, PHOTOGRAPHS, 1883-1927, Box 1.

Series III contains thirty photographs of family members and friends of the Murrell family. The photographs are arranged alphabetically.

BOX AND FOLDER

Series I, MENUS, NEWSCLIPPINGS, AND RECEIPTS, 1896-1987, Box 1.

Box 1

1. Two Colonial Hotel Menus, undated
2. Newspaper articles, 1898-1987
3. Receipts, 1896-1909

Series II, PAULINE MURRELL STONE INTERVIEW, 1993, Box 1.

Box 1

4. Microcassette tape interview of Pauline Murrell Stone, 1993
Cassette tape copy of interview of Pauline Murrell Stone, 1993

Series III, PHOTOGRAPHS, 1883-1927, Box 1.

Box 1

Folder 5
1. Adams Family House, Lois Peoples and Katheryne Peoples (in swing), undated
2. Cloudland Hotel, undated
3. Cloudland Hotel, undated
4. Cloudland Hotel, c. 1890
5. Colonial Hotel, Johnson City, TN, undated
6. Colonial Hotel, Johnson City, TN, undated
7. Deaderick, Mr. & Mrs. A. V. (Uncle Dot and Aunt Addie), 1927
8. Lynnwood Hotel and Cafeteria (post card), 1908
9. Murrell, Hugh, sitting in rocking chair of Colonial Hotel, undated
10. Murrell, Hugh Loftus (2nd from left) and Caroline Aldridge (3rd from left) at the Fish Hatchery, Unicoi County, undated
11. Murrell, Hugh Loftus and Katheryne Adams Peoples, Johnson City, TN, June 22, 1918
12. Murrell, Hugh Loftus and Katheryne Adams Peoples, Johnson City, TN, June 22, 1918
13. Murrell, N. L., c. 1883
14. Murrell, N. L., undated
15. Murrell, N. L. (with striped tie) and others, (original), Lookout Mountain, 1887

Folder 6
16. Murrell, N. L. (with striped tie) and others, (copy), Lookout Mountain, 1887
17. Peoples, Katheryne (2nd down), Hallie Wolfe (3rd down), and Hugh Loftus Murrell, undated
18. Profile Rock, NC, undated
19. Shell, Frank, Oley Shell, and Sherman Pippin, undated
20. Snyder, Elizabeth Brewer, undated
21. Snyder, Henry Helm (with dog in front) and unidentified men, undated
22. Snyder House, undated
23. Snyder House with unidentified children in front, undated
24. Unaka Train Tracks, undated
25. Unidentified House (post card), undated
26. Unidentified Man in Car, undated
27. Unidentified Picnic Scene, undated
28. Unidentified Picnic Scene, undated
29. Unidentified Picnic Scene, undated
30. Wolfe, Hallie (first) and Katheryne Peoples (3rd from left), undated

INDEX TO MURRELL FAMILY COLLECTION
The numbers following the index term refers to box and folder

Adams Family House: 1-5
Aldridge, Caroline: 1-5
Atwater, Fannie: 1-2
Burgie, Harry: 1-2
Cheek Neal Coffee: 1-3

Cloudland Hotel: 1-2, 1-3, 1-5
Colonial Hotel: 1-1, 1-5
Deaderick, Mr. & Mrs. A. V.: 1-2
Evening Post, The (New York, Saturday, August 27, 1898): Oversize Folder 1
F ish Hatchery, Unicoi County: 1-5

Lynnwood Hotel and Cafeteria: 1-5
Murrell, Hugh Loftus: 1-5. 1-6
Murrell, N. L.: 1-5, 1-6
Peoples, Katheryne Adams: 1-5, 1-6
Peoples, Lois: 1-5

Picnic Scene: 1-6
Pippin, Sherman: 1-6
Profile Rock, NC: 1-6
Roan Mountain: 1-2
Shell, Frank: 1-6

Shell, Oley: 1-6
Snyder, Elizabeth Brewer: 1-6
Snyder House: 1-6
Snyder, Henry Helm: 1-6
Stone, Pauline Murrell: 1-4

Unaka Springs Hotel: 1-2
Wolfe, Hallie: 1-6

 

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