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Hardy County Papers, 1788/1941 0.4 Linear Feet 5 in. (1 document case)

A travel journal, ca. 1857; a diary, 1941; survey records, 1894-1896; account books, 1788-1811 - 1891-1894; county and parish tax levies, 1800; a book of geographic terms and facts kept by Susan I. Branson in 1836; and a Branson family record book. People mentioned include Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Places mentioned include: Cincinnati, Ohio; and, in West Virginia, Romney, Evansville, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coolville, Athens, Branch Mountain, Moorefield, Front Run Valley, Camp Branch Run, Sapling Lick Ridge, Hanging Rock Ridge, Little Ridge, Cacapon River, Kim's Run, Lost River, and South Branch Valley. Subject areas covered include family and women's history, cattle business in Hardy County, and business dealings between the South Branch Valley and Baltimore and other east coast cities.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harness Family Genealogy, 1779/1983 0.8 Linear Feet 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Harness family
Documents and papers in support of A Glimpse of the Past: The History of the Harness Family, a photocopy of family records, arranged by name, containing genealogical information by birth certificates, estate papers, obituaries, death certificates, etc. Separate names with files include Mary Crenshaw, Arthur Harness, Harold Harness, Joseph Harness, Leonard Harness, Michael Harness, and William Harness. There is also a computer disk on PAF "Personal Ancestral File" of the Harness family.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers, 1778/1955 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (1 folder)

Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school tuition receipts, orders,unsigned copy of Thomas Hickman's will, deed and other papers of several members of the Hickman family of Harrison county. A photostat copy of a form letter from the State Medical Society Committee on Examination of the Medical Botany of the State addressed to Dr.P. Davis from Wheeling, 1868.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document, 1700/1958 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Hansrote, Hazel Groves

Booklet No. 1, 18th and 19th Century People, compiled by Hazel Groves Hansrote, 1957. Lists names of pioneers, ministers, soldiers, and teachers of early [West] Virginia, and adjoining counties of Maryland, with places of, residence and dates as compiled from approximately sixteen sources, including Withers Chronicles of Border Warfare; Hampshire County Court Records; Virginia Genealogy and County Records; Official Records of Frederick County; American State Papers, Claims XIX, Virginia; Allegany County, Md., Records; and History of Allegany County, Thomas and Williamas. Also, an ALS from Mrs. Hansrote to the WVU Library Staff expressing her appreciation of assistance received, 1958 February 15.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Helen Scott, Compiler, Genealogy Records, 1500/1991 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Scott, Helen.
Genealogical notes and research of a member of the Fayette Co., WV Genealogical Society, Helen Scott, on the following families: Arthur, Blake, Decker, Jaynes, Johnson and Scott. There are cemetery readings for Fayette County including the areas of Fayetteville, Mt. Hope, Oak Hill, and Pax and of the Blue Ridge Cemetery. There is also a copy of the genealogical research conducted by Laura Blake.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Henrietta S. Fitzhugh Collection, 1827/2003, bulk 1827/2003 0.01 Linear Foot

Diary of Henrietta S. Fitzhugh of a trip. Includes letters concerning the diary, the Washington, Fitzhugh and Meade Families genealogy, news clippings concerning Washington land, Washington royal blood and family obituaries, pencil drawing of a Washington silhouette, letter with Fitzhugh/Meade genealogy information, Colonial Dames invitation to unveiling of tablet in memory of George Washington at Ravenswood, West Virginia (1932), and correspondence with Mrs. Archie Q. Brockenbrough of New York.

  1. College of William and Mary

Henry Ruffner (1790-1861) and William Henry (1824-1908) Papers, 1829/1913 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm (310 items), 1.75 in.)

Pamphlets include Henry Ruffner's antislavery pamphlet, 1847, and his Union speech, 1856. Subjects of the manuscripts and correspondence include family history; travel; Kanawha Salt Works; schools in Virginia and Kanawha County; Lane Seminary Library; Presbyterian Church; slavery, coal, gas, iron, and timber; Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee, Harvard, Hobart, Cornell, and Hampden-Sydney colleges; Greenbrier County; Alabama; election of 1904; University of Virginia; Kanawha Valley floods; Venezuela; American Colonization Society; and the Philippine Islands. Persons mentioned or commented on include Philip Doddridge, John Letcher, Hugh Mercer, and Nelson A. Miles. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, John Eaton, John P. Hale, H.R. Helper, W.S. Laidley, David L. Ruffner, John W. Wayland, and William L. Wilson.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hill Family Genealogy, 1700/1999, bulk 1980/1999 2.7 Linear Feet 2 ft. 8 in. (2 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 rolled storage tube, 2 in.)

Hill family
Genealogy research papers on the Hill family from the 1600s to the 1900s. Includes correspondence, research notes, clippings, photocopies of documents and maps, three books, and two Hill family genealogy charts.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jacob Seibert Family Papers, 1813/1925 0.2 Linear Feet 2 1/2 in. (1 document case)

Seibert family
Papers of the Jacob Seibert family of Berkeley County, West Virginia, from 1813 to 1925. Manuscript materials chiefly include surveys, inventories, receipts, and notes related to the settlement of Seibert's farm.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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