Greenville D. Wood Account Books

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Greenville D. Wood Account Books, Ms1940-028, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.6 Cubic Feet 2 boxes
Abstract:
The Greenville D. Wood Account Books document the operations of a Floyd County, Virginia general mercantile store, providing customer names, dates of purchase, and transaction descriptions.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Greenville D. Wood Account Books, Ms1940-028, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains three ledgers maintained by Greenville D. Wood, proprietor of a general mercantile business in Turtle Rock (Floyd County), Virginia, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Biographical / historical:

Greenville Darius Wood was born to Richard J. and Judith Anne Shortt Wood on November 9, 1866. Following the 1892 death of his first wife, Melissa Graham, Wood married Lilly Barnard in 1895, and the couple had five children. Wood seems to have lived his entire adult life in the Little River District of Floyd County, Virginia, where he worked as a merchant and farmer. Greenville D. Wood died on September 13, 1943, and is buried in Floyd County's Harvestwood Cemetery.

Acquisition information:
The Greenville D. Wood Account Books were donated to the university in 1939 and transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in 1955.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Greenville D. Wood Account Books commenced and was completed in November 2011. Initial desscription was completed in or prior to May 1970.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by type then chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard