Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti papers

Summary

Title:

Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti papers 1832-2017

Extent:

3.50 linear feet

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti papers, 1832-2017, M000035, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists primarily of Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti's family history and genealogical work on her ancestors. The materials encompassed in this collection include photographs, letters, hair, newspaper clippings, publications, handwritten notes, ephemera, and scrapbook-like pages.

Topics include American genealogy, women's careers in World War I, confederate memorabilia, horsemanship, female equestrians, personal recollections, and family history. Highlights include Vernie Gilmore's World War I military passport and short stories, memorabilia relating to Charlotte's late daughter Diane Marie Blazer, poems by Clyde A. Beakley, and confederate money.

Biographical / historical:

The following biographical description was taken from Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti's obituary. Please visit the following link to view it in its entirety: www.jaychapel.com/tributes/Charlotte-Ferretti

Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti was born May 16, 1932 in Fresno, California at the old St. Agnes Hospital the daughter of Charles B. Boon and Zelma Maxine Simpson Boon R.N. She passed from this life on Monday, April 30, 2018 at Madera Community Hospital.

Charlotte received her early education in Fresno, attending Kindergarten and first grade in the Bungalow at St. John’s Cathedral and later attended Fresno Schools until the fifth grade. Her sixth grade was at St. Joseph’s Convent in Berkeley, California, her seventh grade was at St. Brendan’s School in Los Angeles, California and her 8th Grade was at Lincoln School in Madera, California. She graduated with the Class of 1950 at Madera Union High School and went on to complete one year at Fresno State College (now CSU Fresno).

Later Charlotte was employed at Pacific Telephone Co., Gottschalks Department Store, and Fresno Dry Goods.

An avid reader all her life, Charlotte had a large library of many books, mostly history, poetry, biography and references on many and varied subjects. Her love of history came from her father. She was a dedicated genealogist and was always ready to help anyone who was serious about researching their “Family tree”.

Her love of history and genealogy made it possible for her to establish memberships in several hereditary societies and well as others, including an Auxiliary member of the Legion of Mary, a Life Member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, a member of Colonial Dames of XVII Century, member of Society of Daughters of American Colonists, a Charter Member of Yosemite CL., and 52 year member of National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. Member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a recipient of Jefferson Davis Gold Medal for preservation of History, a Native Daughter of the Golden West, a Charter and a life Member of the Scottish Society of Central, California, a Life Member of the Friends of the Madera County Library. In later years she was a member of St. Columba’s Church Altar Society in Chowchilla.

In her high school years she was active in high school sports. She also showed American Saddlebred gaited horses and in later years enjoyed Arabian horses.

Charlotte also worked at St. Vincent de Paul Thrift store in Madera, starting in the 1960’s; she left the store in 2003, due to a back injury.

Charlotte is preceded in death by her father, Lt. Col. Charles B. Boon in 1984, her daughter Maria Deane Ferretti in 1990, her step-father James H. Austin in 1998, and her mother Zelma Maxine Simpson Boon Austin in 2006.

She is survived by two of her three children, a son, a daughter, two grandchildren and an aunt.

Processing information:

Due to space and conservation concerns, the materials were taken out of their original binders. Materials were previously stored in black three-ring binders at least three inches wide. The folders have been kept in the order they were found within the binder but separated into series; however, the order of the binders themselves could not be ascertained. The collection came organized by surname and each binder contained materials related to that surname; however, sometimes it was arranged by person. Oftentimes, there were materials that did not seem to have any relation to the other surnames, yet they were included in the binder. The folder tabs with the surnames also often did not have any relation to the surname in the folder. A such, these were moved to the last series and original order was not maintained in that respect.

Newspaper clippings were separated from the other documents with acid free paper. Photographs were placed in photo sleeves. Scrapbook pages were left in their original plastic sleeves. Original documents, such as vital records and older documents like the 1832 manuscript, were placed in mylar. If materials were grouped together in sleeves, they were kept together by creating an acid-free sling. Oversized items including Vernie Gillmore Reagles' World War I military passport [Series 6, Sub-series 3] and J.J Boon's property records [Series 9, Sub-series 2] were separated and placed in Box 7.

A guide on the scrapbook-like pages: Materials were adhered to or placed on a black construction paper backing in a plastic sleeve, making it a scrapbook-like page. In the guide, each scrapbook page is depicted as an "Item" and the description for each "Item" encompasses materials included on both sides of each page.

For some individuals in the collection, their items were partially redacted by the processing archivist.

The collection was processed by Dvorah Lewis, student assistant Thai-Van Stanoff, and Sutro Library staff in 2024.

Arrangement:

Charlotte originally arranged the collection by surname and stored the materials in binders. Many of the pages within the binders are similar to scrapbook pages as they include Charlotte's commentary handwritten and typewritten on the pages. Series were created by processing staff to reflect the surnames found within these binders.

This collection is arranged into 15 series:

Series 1: Charlotte Anne Ferretti, 1932-2003

Sub-series 1: Medical records, 1962-2000

Sub-series 2: Photographs, 1945-1987

Sub-series 3: Genealogical research, 1957-1991

Sub-series 4: Clippings and other publications, 1942-2003

Sub-series 5: Ephemera and objects, 1932-1995

Sub-series 6: Scrapbook pages, 1932-1995

Series 2: Nello Roland Ferretti, 1953-2004

Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1984-2004

Sub-series 2: School records, 1963-1971

Sub-series 3: Photographs, 1984-1995

Sub-series 4: Clippings and other publications, 1980-2004

Sub-series 5: Ephemera and objects, 1983-1985

Sub-series 6: Scrapbook pages, 1953-2004

Series 3: Caleb McArthur, 1849-2004

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1849-2004

Sub-series 2: Photographs, 1977-1981

Sub-series 3: Clippings and publications, 1978-1993

Sub-series 4: Ephemera and objects, 1978

Sub-series 5: Scrapbook pages, 1979

Series 4: Ralph Bushee, 1909-2001

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1995-2001

Sub-series 2: Vital records, 1959-1961

Sub-series 3: School records, 1920

Sub-series 4: Photographs, 1957-1986

Sub-series 5: Clippings and other publications, 1957-1996

Sub-series 6: Ephemera and objects, 1923-1961

Sub-series 7: Scrapbook pages, 1909-1986

Series 5: Lee Jackson Boon, 1899-2007

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1986

Sub-series 2: Photographs, 1943

Sub-series 3: Clippings and other publications, 2007

Sub-series 4: Ephemera and objects, undated

Sub-series 5: Scrapbook pages, 1899-1984

Series 6: John Jordan Boon, 1832-2016

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1918-2016

Sub-series 2: Property records, 1832

Sub-series 3: Photographs, 1986-1987

Sub-series 4: Clippings and other publications, undated

Sub-series 5: Ephemera and objects, 1988

Sub-series 6: Scrapbook pages, 1891-1958

Series 7: Charles Beakley Boon, 1840-2002

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1929-2000

Sub-series 2: Vital records, 1971-1988

Sub-series 3: School records, 1913-2002

Sub-series 4: Photographs, 1931/1938-1996

Sub-series 5: Clippings and other publications, 1986-2001

Sub-series 6: Ephemera and objects, 1914-1923

Sub-series 7: Scrapbook pages, 1840-1986

Series 8: Earl Roland Simpson, 1908-2017

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1919-2014

Sub-series 2: Photographs, 1987

Sub-series 3: Clippings and other publications, 1988-2017

Sub-series 4: Ephemera and objects, undated

Sub-series 5: Scrapbook pages, 1908-1974

Series 9: Vernie Leota Reagles, 1876-1986

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1876-1986

Sub-series 2: Nursing records, 1916-1928

Sub-series 3: Photographs, 1923-1959

Sub-series 4: Clippings and other publications, 1903-1982

Series 10: Samuel Simpson, 1895-1986

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1970-1986

Sub-series 2: Photographs, 1902-1985

Sub-series 3: Scrapbook pages, 1895-1977

Series 11: Zelma Maxine Boon, 1909-1984

Sub-series 1: Vital records, 1940-1943

Sub-series 2: School records, 1923--1927

Sub-series 3: Ephemera and objects, 1923-1951

Sub-series 4: Scrapbook pages, 1909-1984

Series 12: Josephine Adela Simpson, 1832-1986

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1986

Sub-series 2: Photographs, 1938-1986

Sub-series 3: Clippings and other publications, 1979

Sub-series 4: Scrapbook pages, 1832-1952

Series 13: Diane Marie Blazer, 1961-2000

Sub-series 1: Photographs, 1989

Sub-series 2: Clippings and other publications, 1974-1991

Sub-series 3: Ephemera and objects, 1985-2000

Sub-series 4: Scrapbook pages, 1961-1997

Series 14: Ross/Lacy, 1956-2000

Sub-series 1: Correspondence and other writings, 1956-1959

Sub-series 2: Publications, 2000

Sub-series 3: Scrapbook pages, undated

Series 15: Anderson, Woolery, Sharp, Hoag, other MacArthur lines, 1948-2003

Sub-series 1: Anderson, undated

Sub-series 2: Hoag, 1986-1987

Sub-series 3: MacArthur, 1979-1994

Sub-series 4: Sharp, 1948-1986

Sub-series 5: Van Deusen, 1959-1986

Sub-series 6: Woolery, 1986

Sub-series 7: Miscellaneous, 1959-2003

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Finding Aid Authors: Dvorah Lewis, Thai-Van Stanoff, and Sutro Library Staff.

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was encoding in EAD by Archon 3.21 from an SQL database source on June 14th, 2024 .

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Please page materials three business days in advance of your visit by email: sutro@library.ca.gov .

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the repository. Any applicable literary rights might reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please email sutro@library.ca.gov .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti papers, 1832-2017, M000035, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco, Calif.

Location of this collection:

California State Library, Sutro Library

SFSU - J. Paul Leonard Library

1630 Holloway Ave, Room 610

San Francisco, CA 94132-4030, US

Contact:

(415) 469-6100

sutro@library.ca.gov

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