Omega Crow Mathews Memoir

Collection

Identifier: MC 1668

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Scope and Content Note

The collection includes the bound and typed edition of Omega's childhood memoirs from circa 1892 - 1900 and two photographs of Omega and her husband, George.

Dates

circa 1920-1953

Creator

Mathews, Omega Crow, 1892-1994 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Omega Crow Mathews was born in 1892 near Paron, Saline County, Arkansas, to Matthew Henderson Crow and Ellen Elizabeth Jackson Crow. She was the eldest of eight children raised on the Crows' 160-acre farm. In the winter of 1904, Matthew Crow died of pneumonia, and Ellen Crow remarried a Mr. Weaver and then she died in 1908 following a miscarriage.

Omega later married George Alexander Mathews; they had eight children. In 1953, she wrote the memoir "As I Remember It" about her childhood on the Crow farm. She passed the written memoir on to her daughter, June Mathews Stuckey, who typed and edited it. Omega Crow Mathews died in 1994. Her memoir passed from June Stuckey to acquaintance Margaret Jones Bolsterli, who donated it to Special Collections.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged by topic.

Acquisition Information

The Omega Crow Mathews Memoir was donated to the Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, on February 21, 2006, by June Mathews Stuckey.