Anna Clay Zimmerman Rutherford Papers, 1955-2008

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1955-2008, of Anna Clay Zimmerman Rutherford (b. 1917), and her husband William Kenneth Rutherford (1907-1990), of Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, containing their genealogical research for their two-volume work Genealogical History of Our Ancestors, published in 1970, and revised in 1977. There is information on the Bowen, Gardiner, Gassaway, Halliburton, Harper, Hayden, Peyton, Rutherford, Spalding, and Zimmerman families and allied lines that settled in Amherst, Essex, Richmond, and Stafford Counties, Virginia, and Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The collection includes clippings, correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, and photostatic copies of deeds, estate accounts, inventories, and sales, land patents, marriage records, and wills.

Biographical / historical:

Anna Clay Zimmerman was born near Lewistown, Missouri on 3 March 1917. She is the daughter of Bertie Clay Zimmerman (1878-1926) and Anna Eliza Bowen (1885-1973). She attended Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri, and graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia with a bachelor's degree in education (1952), and a master's degree in education (1955). She taught in various elementary and high schools in Missouri. On 20 November 1940, she married William Kenneth Rutherford (1907-1990). They published numerous genealogical books, including Genealogical History of the Halliburton Family (1959), Genealogical History of the Rutherford Family, (1969), Genealogical History of Our Ancestors (1970), and Genealogical History of the Gassaway Family (1981).

Acquisition information:
Gift of Anna Rutherford, Tucson, Arizona.
Physical description:
2.475 cubic feet (6 boxes)