PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04613::A Guide to the Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007)//EN" "vi04613.xml" A Guide to the Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007 West, Nan Overton, Papers, 1927-2007 43461 Jim Greve Library of Virginia © 2014 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Jim Greve, 3 June 2014 Description is in English 2014-06-03 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 43461 Jim Greve

Library of Virginia 2014 Jim Greve Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007 43461 4.05 cubic feet (9 boxes) English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Nan Overton West Papers, 1927-2007. Accession 43461. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Nan Overton West, Lubbock, Texas.

Biographical Information

Nan Overton West is a life-long resident of Lubbock, Texas. She attended Lubbock Public Schools, Texas Technological College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and The University of Texas, where she graduated with a B.A. degree in 1941. After retiring from the family businesses, she published a genealogical history of her husband Pete's family, The Wests and the Rays and Their Allies: Southern Families from the Colonies to Teaxas. In 1991 this book was awarded first place for Family History and Grand Prize for Writing by The Texas State Genealogical Society. In 1992, she published He Wore a Pink Carnation: A Biography of Dr. Marvin C. Overton, her father and a pioneer physician in West Texas. She also has written The Overtons: 700 Years with Allied Families from England to Virginia, Kentucky and Texas(1997). In 2006, she published Jennings-Dunlap Genealogy.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1927-2007, of Nan Overton West (b. 1919) of Lubbock, Texas, containing genealogical research used in her book Jennings-Dunlap Genealogy, published in 2006. There is also information on the allied families of Alsup, Appling, Colley, Harkness, Humphries, McDonald, Overton, Perteet, Pulliam, Strong, and Tigner, who settled in Hanover, Henrico, Northumberland, and Washington Counties, Virginia, and Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas. The collection includes articles, clippings, copies and transcriptions of census records, deeds, military records, and vital statistics, correspondence with family members and other researchers, family group sheets and pedigrees, genealogies compiled by others, membership applications, newsletters, obitiuaries, and published sources. Some of the material was compiled by West's mother, Nannie Melvina Jennings Overton (1890-1973).

Contents List Allsup. 1 1 Alsup. 1 2 Alsup (Joan Spragins). 1 3 "James Alsup and Family: Pioneering From Virginia to Tennessee and Westward" by Joan Dailey Spragins. 1 4 Appling. 1 5-8 Appling - Childress Letters, Georgia Wills and Notes. 1 9 Appling County, GA. 1 10 Appling (Malcolm McCown). 1 11 Appling, Lynn Pierce. 1 12 "Descendants of William Burwell Appling" by Lynn Pierce Appling. 1 13 "Descendants of William Burwell Appling" by Malcolm G. McCown. 1 14 Boyd, Kay Dunlap. 2 1 Chaddick. 2 2 Chiddick. 2 3 Coleman, Leighton H. III. 2 4-5 Colley. 2 6 Colley, John - Wilkes County, GA - Selected Records (Marshall L. Styles). 2 7 Colley-Strong. 2 8 Cross-Dunlap. 2 9-10 Crunk. 2 11 "The Family and Ancestry of William Dabney (ca. 1743-1779) of Virginia and His Two Wives, Jane Quarles and Anna Harris" by William L. Deyo. 2 12 Dennis. 2 13 Dunlap. 2 14-18 Dunlap-Appling. 3 1-2 "Descendants of Nancy C. Appling Dunlap" by Lynn Pierce Appling. 3 3 Harkness. 3 4-6 Humphreys, Jesse L. 3 7 Humphries. 3 8-11 Humphries/Humphreys. 3 12 Humphries (John D. Bates/Michelle J. Taunton). 3 13 Humphries, Ola. 3 14 Hurley, Nell (Pettigrew). 4 1 Jennings. 4 2-10 Jennings, Alberta Lowery. 4 11 Jennings (Austin F. Anderson). 4 12-13 Jennings - Austin Anderson Papers. 4 14 Jennings Bibles. 4 15 Jennings - Sarah Churchill (Duchess of Marlborough). 4 16 Jennings - Correspondence. 4 17 Jennings (Henry W. Dailey). 5 1 Jennings, Dorothy J. and Fremont, Marion J. 5 2 Jennings - England. 5 3 Jennings, Evelyn Floyd and Tuttle, Maurine - Papers Received From. 5 4 Jennings - Family Records and Questionnaires. 5 5-7 "The Jennings of Haddonfield" by James R. Jennings. 5 8 Jennings (Velma Stiles Hilburn). 5 9 Jennings, Joseph Humphreys - CSA. 5 10 Jennings, Joseph W. 5 11 Jennings, Joseph William. 5 12-13 Jennings - Kentucky. 5 14 Jennings - Kentucky (Louise Beelner). 5 15 Jennings, Laura Olmsted. 6 1 Jennings (Addie Loucks Lehman). 6 2 Jennings - Miscellaneous. 6 3 Jennings - Miscellaneous Correspondence. 6 4-5 Jennings - Miser Legend. 6 6 Jennings Newsletter. 6 7 Jennings (Not Related). 6 8 Jennings (Irene Peveler). 6 9 Jennings-Poindexter. 6 10 Jennings, Sally. 6 11 Jennings (Mary B. Saunders). 6 12 Jennings (Joan Spragins). 6 13 Jennings - Texas. 6 14 Jones. 6 15 Jones-Humphries. 6 16 MacDonald/McDonald. 7 1-3 Matthews. 7 4 Muscoe-Garnett (Jean Mayo). 7 5 Overton. 7 6 Nannie Jennings Overton Papers. 7 7-8 Parsons, Mary Jo Anderson. 7 9 Perteet/Pettit. 7 10-11 Pettigrew. 7 12-14 The Pettigrew Family Quarterly. 8 n/a Pettigrew, James - Revolutionary War Pension Application. 8 1 Pettigrew - Miscellaneous Correspondence and Resources. 8 2 Pettigrew, Pat Fincher. 8 3 Phelps. 8 4 Phelps Family News. 9 1-3 Photographs (Copies). 9 4 Pulliam. 9 5 Rullamas, Randy - FlipAlbum. 9 6 Strange. 9 7 Styles, Marshall (Colley). 9 8-9 Tassie, Evelyn Staples. 9 10 Tigner. 9 11 To Go In Jennings Book. 9 12 Ulbrich, Jim. 9 13 Warner, Ruth. 9 14 Wood, Trist. 9 15