Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007

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Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
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Richmond, VA 23219
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Preferred citation:

Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007. Accession 43461. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007. Accession 43461. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1927-2007, of Nan Overton West (b. 1919) of Lubbock, Texas, containing genealogical research used in her book Jennings-Dunlap Genealogy, published in 2006. There is also information on the allied families of Alsup, Appling, Colley, Harkness, Humphries, McDonald, Overton, Perteet, Pulliam, Strong, and Tigner, who settled in Hanover, Henrico, Northumberland, and Washington Counties, Virginia, and Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas. The collection includes articles, clippings, copies and transcriptions of census records, deeds, military records, and vital statistics, correspondence with family members and other researchers, family group sheets and pedigrees, genealogies compiled by others, membership applications, newsletters, obitiuaries, and published sources. Some of the material was compiled by West's mother, Nannie Melvina Jennings Overton (1890-1973).

Biographical / historical:

Nan Overton West is a life-long resident of Lubbock, Texas. She attended Lubbock Public Schools, Texas Technological College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and The University of Texas, where she graduated with a B.A. degree in 1941. After retiring from the family businesses, she published a genealogical history of her husband Pete's family, The Wests and the Rays and Their Allies: Southern Families from the Colonies to Teaxas. In 1991 this book was awarded first place for Family History and Grand Prize for Writing by The Texas State Genealogical Society. In 1992, she published He Wore a Pink Carnation: A Biography of Dr. Marvin C. Overton, her father and a pioneer physician in West Texas. She also has written The Overtons: 700 Years with Allied Families from England to Virginia, Kentucky and Texas(1997). In 2006, she published Jennings-Dunlap Genealogy.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Nan Overton West, Lubbock, Texas.
Physical description:
4.05 cubic feet (9 boxes)