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Isaac Horne Ledgers 1.4 Cubic Feet 1 box

Horne, Isaac James, 1801-1878
This collection contains seven ledgers and one letter from the estate of Isaac Horne (1801-1878) of Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia. The ledgers show the Hornes owned a dry goods, fabric and tanning business. Transactions are recorded selling leather items to Confederate Soldiers during the American Civil War.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Jamerson-Webster-Basham Family Papers 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box

Jamerson family (Franklin County, Va.)
The Jamerson-Webster-Basham Family Papers include receipts, deeds, land settlements, and correspondence from the Jamerson and other Franklin County families, including the Webster, Basham, Rayford, Akers, and Neff families.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Jeremiah W. Graves Collection, 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Graves, Jeremiah White (Pittsylvania County, Va.)
The Jeremiah W. Graves Collection includes a cash book, correspondence, receipts and ledger pages, newspaper clippings, and genealogy materials relating to the personal and business activities of Captain Jeremiah White Graves (1801-1878), a farmer, financial advisor, real estate broker, and enslaver of people in Cedar Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Genealogical materials in the collection relate to the histories for branches of the Graves, Whitehead, Hunt, and Jones families.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Jeremiah White Graves Diary 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Graves, Jeremiah White (Pittsylvania County, Va.)
Jeremiah White Graves was a farmer in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The collection consists of a microfilm copy of Graves' extensive diary and a typescript manuscript of selected transcribed passages from that diary.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

John Janney Papers, 8 Cubic Feet 19 boxes

Janney, John, 1798-1872
The John Janney Papers consist of over 800 letters written to John Janney and members of his family. Other materials include biographical information, books, and periodicals.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Key Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Key family
Papers of the Key family of Liberty (Bedford County), Virginia, including four letters from brothers Edward W., Joseph C., and Yelverton P. Key, who served in Company G, 34th Virginia Infantry (aka 4th Virginia Heavy Artillery) during the American Civil War, as well as financial documents (receipts and tax bills) of the interrelated Key and Wheat families.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Letters to Eliza Doty and Phebe Mundy 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Poindexter, Sarah Ayers Mundy, 1809-1872
The letters to Eliza Doty (also Doughty; 1808-1873) were written by her sister, probably Sarah Poindexter (1809-1872), to Eliza in New Providence, New Jersey, in 1840, 1845, 1868, and 1869 from Richmond and Culpeper, Virginia. The letters detail weather, community information, and familial updates. They also contain information on the declining economic conditions in Richmond and the sister's negative feelings about reconstruction conditions in Virginia. Other letters are written by Poindexter and Phebe Ayers Mundy to their mother, Phebe Mundy (1787-1858). One is written to Poindexter from Phebe Ayers Mundy and forwarded by Poindexter with an additional note from her to their mother. The letters are from 1834 to 1841 and sent from Richmond to Rahway, New Jersey. The contents of the letters includes church news, familial updates, and travel updates.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Martha L. Johnson Family Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

Martha L. Johnson family

This collection contains the papers of the family of Martha L. Robinson Johnson, nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. The collection consists largely of correspondence to Johnson from various family members and friends, providing a chronicle of the life of a Southwest Virginia family during the mid-nineteenth century, mostly from a feminine perspective. The letters focus on childbirth, death, illness, folk medicine, fashion, sewing, knitting, quilting, gardening, food, spirituality and the Civil War. The letters were mailed from various locales--mostly in Virginia--including Hillsville, Copper Mines, Orange Court House, Lynchburg, Texas House, Chatham Hill, Coal Hill, Warm Springs, Red Sulphur Springs, Spring Valley, Grayson County, Cove and Hickory Grove. Though the majority of the correspondence is addressed to Martha Johnson, the collection also contains correspondence to and from her husband, Robert C. Johnson, a Carroll County tavern keeper, postmaster and commissioner of revenue.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Organ Family Collection 1.9 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Layne, David Orison, 1832-1862
The Organ Family Collection includes materials from 1836-2006. Materials concern the Organ family's experience on the homefront and in battle during the American Civil War.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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