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    <unittitle>George Couchman Family Papers</unittitle>
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      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 4 3/4 in. (1 flat document case); (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1765/1935" type="inclusive">1765-1935</unitdate>
    <abstract id="aspace_4016d9d2a3c5e6df72dacd20db40aba7">Papers of a Berkeley County, West Virginia, farmer and his descendants. Included are the estate papers of Nicholas Stroyer and business and legal papers of George, Henry J., Benjamin S. and Harman L. Couchman. There is the correspondence of Adrian W. Lamon, John W. Marshall, J. Marshall Neel, the Reverend A.A.P Neel of Shepherdstown (colportage agent of the Baltimore Conference M.E. Church South), Professor J. Wilbur Neel of Romney, and various members of the Couchman and Neel families. The collection includes the subscription list for the Reverend C.P. Heathe, 1823; quarterly reports and manuscript minutes of the Cherry Grove Grange, No.13, Patrons of Husbandry of West Virginia, Berkeley County, 1892, 1893; materials on Methodism in the Berkeley County area; pocket diaries; and family photographs.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George Couchman Family Papers, A&amp;M 1184, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018761" source="lcsh">Berkeley County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Shepherdstown.</geogname>
    <subject source="local">Churches  -- Methodist</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries and journals.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Patrons of Husbandry.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Couchman, Benjamin S.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Couchman, George</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Couchman, Harman L.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Couchman, Henry J.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Heathe, Rev. C.P.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Lamon, Adrian W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Marshall, John W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Neel, J. Marshall.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Neel, J. Wilbur.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Neel, Reverend A.A.P.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Stroyer, Nicholas.</persname>
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