Scope and Content Note
The papers of the Dibble family span the years 1696-2021, with the bulk of the material dating from 1979 to 2019. The collection documents the extended families of Andrew Henry Dibble Sr. (1825-1873) and Ellie Naomi Naudin Dibble (1828-1920), including their descendants and ancestors in Scotland, England, Sierra Leone, and South Carolina. The collection is organized into five series: Dibble-Naudin Family, Cleland/Clevland/Cleveland Family, South Carolina Families, Naudin-Dibble Heritage Foundation, and Oversize.
The collection consists of the genealogical research of Elsie Taylor-Goins, the great-granddaughter of Andrew and Ellie Dibble. Through archival and online research, as well as family correspondence, Taylor-Goins compiled files on her family members that document the lives of several generations of an African American family from free persons in the antebellum South through the modern day. Prominent individuals related to the Dibble family include Bonds Conway (1762-1843), Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1930-2017), Mercer Cook (1903-1987), William Morgan Goins Jr. (1931-1988), Ann Dibble Jordan (1934-), Jewel Lafontant-MANkarious (1922-1997), Henry J. Maxwell (1837-1906), Stephen Lloyd Maxwell Jr. (1921-2009), Mabel M. Smythe (1918-2006), Muriel S. Snowden (1916-1988), and Ayo Vaughan-Richards. Taylor-Goins also researched Andrew Dibble's mixed-race great-grandmother, Catherine Cleveland, and her aunt, Elizabeth Clevland Hardcastle, who immigrated to colonial South Carolina as free persons of color in the late eighteenth century. Some genealogical research in the collection was compiled by Taylor-Goins's sister, Catherine Taylor-McConnell. In 1979, Taylor-Goins and Taylor-McConnell founded the Naudin-Dibble Heritage Foundation for the purpose of organizing reunions and honoring the extended family descended from Andrew Dibble Sr. and Ellie Dibble.
The collection's series are listed and briefly described below. A fuller description of each series and a list of its contents can be accessed in the series descriptions within the container list.
The Dibble-Naudin Family series documents Taylor-Goins's research into and correspondence with the descendants of Andrew Henry Dibble Sr. and Ellie Naomi Naudin Dibble.
The Cleland/Clevland/Cleveland Family series documents Taylor-Goins's research into her ancestral family line in Scotland and England, as well as the legal research supporting her book, Elizabeth Clevland Hardcastle, 1741-1808: A Lady of Color in the South Carolina Low Country (2001).
The South Carolina Families series documents Taylor-Goins's research into the Conway, Naudin, and Vaughan families of Camden, South Carolina, as well as other African American families and individuals related to Ellie Naomi Naudin Dibble and Andrew Henry Dibble Sr.
The Naudin-Dibble Heritage Foundation series documents the organization founded by Taylor-Goins and her sister, Catherine Taylor-McConnell, to celebrate the descendants of Andrew Henry Dibble Sr. and Ellie Naomi Naudin Dibble.
The remaining series contains Oversize material.