Series I: Correspondence and papers, 1903-1999.

Containers:

Box 1-2

Extent:

Extent: 2 boxes.

Scope and content:

Series I: Correspondence and papers, 1903-1999, consists of accounts, advertisements, calling cards, catalogs, clippings, correspondence, deeds, receipts, scrapbooks, tax records, yearbooks, and other papers of Ernest Echols (1864-1926) of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and Fayette County, West Virginia, highlighting his business interests in coal mines, including the Big Bend Coal Company, as well as in stores. Includes correspondence from family members discussing family and business matters. Papers also contains correspondence from Ernest Echols' sons while enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute, as well as grades, receipts, checks, and other papers. Also includes a copy of "Some Echols Family Letters" consisting of correspondence between Eliza F. Echols (1795-1875), her son Edward Echols (1817-1874), and his son John Jordan Echols (1846-1926) all of Rockbridge County and Greenbrier and Monroe Counties, West Virginia.

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