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Scope and Contents Family papers which include both personal and business material, often mixed together in the correspondence, financial and legal files. Business papers include William Carter Stubbs' real estate business; his Gloucester, Virginia farms and mill; his insurance/mortgage business and other enterprises. His work as a chemist is in Series 3, Professional, but some material is mixed in with this series and Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs' genealogical papers are in Series 1, Genealogy, but some material is also mixed in with this series.

These include tax documents, receipts, promissory notes, and account statements.

Series 3: Financial Files, 1832-1894, contains receipts, ledger pages, and promissory notes. Included in Siram Henkel's financial papers is a form of the estimate and assessment of agricultural products to be taxed by the government of the Confederate States. Of particular interest is Paul P. Henkel's 1844-1872 daybook entitled "Sawmill Book No. 3" documenting the sawmill owned by Solomon Henkel. The daybook records prices for sawing and details sawing activities. Elizabeth Garber Renalds' account book and journal documents egg business and other farming and day-to-day activities while the family was living at the Lincoln Homestead on Linville Creek south of Broadway.

Financial Files, ca. 1840-2006, is comprised of financial documents of various types. These include receipts for materials purchased by the cemetery for operations, including hardware, materials, landscaping services, and other expenses relating to the day-to-day care of the cemetery grounds and buildings. Cemetery account books, receipt books, and ledgers track the income and expenditures of the Cemetery, including payments made to the cemetery for the one-time purchase of plots and ongoing income from perpetual care plots. Additional information includes cemetery tax documents are returns, employee payment and salary information, banking documents (including deposit slips and account statements), donor pledges, and other related documents directly impacting the financial affairs of Woodbine cemetery. Certain folder within this series are restricted, due to the presence of personally identifying information.

Scope and Contents Personal and business finances of the Stubbs Family. Includes accounts, ledgers, invoices, receipts, legal documents, taxes and correspondence on farms and mill operations in Virginia; William C. Stubbs real estate, loan and insurance businesses; genealogy book publications, orders and sales; household accounts; and other financial transactions. Some work related material may be mixed in with the family finances.