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Randolph Family Papers 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Randolph family
The collection contains selected transcriptions of correspondence and documents of the Randolph family of Virginia. These documents depict family situations, events leading up to the American Civil War, and conditions during the war.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Repass/Spangler Family Correspondence, 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Spangler, Henry M., B.1828; d.1893 (Stowers' Company, Virginia Militia)
The collection includes two original letters, one 1936 handwritten copy of an 1861 letter, and an undated letter. All correspondence relates to the Repass and Spangler families of Wythe County, Virginia.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Richards-Woody Family Papers, 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Richards-Woody family
The Richards-Woody Family Papers comprise correspondence, photographs, obituaries, legal documents, and a family history of the Richards-Woody family. The collection includes Civil War-era correspondence between King David Richards and his wife, Harriet Love Richards, describing several accounts of battles fought by the Confederate Army's 57th Virginia Infantry during the years 1862 and 1863.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Robert Taylor Preston Papers 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box; 1 oversize folder

The collection consists of 218 letters, military orders, notes, certificates of military appointments, and other items, collected or created by Preston between 1849 and 1871, with the majority from the period between May 1861 and December 1862.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Rosanna Croy Dawson Collection 2.8 Cubic Feet 4 boxes; 2 framed items

Croy family (Blacksburg, Va.)
The Rosanna Croy Dawson Collection includes materials from 1847-1907. The collection contains information relating to the Croy Dawson Family and supposedly the only woman-run business in Blacksburg, VA at that time.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ruby Bishop West Collection 2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

West, Ruby Bishop, d.1984
This is a collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Samuel Davidson Family Papers 0.5 Cubic Feet 1 box

The Samuel Davidson Family Papers are a collection of correspondence, receipts, tax documents, miscellaneous notes, and more from 1823 to 1939. The family resided in Virginia, primarily Bedford County, Virginia, and the subjects of the collection include finance, the Civil War, and family matters, such as daily events and travel.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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