H. A. Buchanan Ledger, 1897/1910

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Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Newman Library
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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], H. A. Buchanan Ledger, Ms 1988-026, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Buchanan, H. A.
Abstract:
Ledger maintained by H. A. Buchanan of Wythe County, Virginia, acting as agent for Fayetta Peterson (aka Mrs. W. J. Peterson). Entries document Buchanan's work in maintaining Peterson's books; collecting dividends, rent and interest; and paying taxes.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], H. A. Buchanan Ledger, Ms 1988-026, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of a single ledger, maintained by H. A. Buchanan, of Smyth County, Virginia. The ledger records Buchanan's work as agent for Fayetta Peterson (aka Mrs. W. J. Peterson). The ledger entries, commencing in 1897, include such expenditures as supplies, taxes, and incidentals; and income from rent, dividends, and interest. The entries end in 1910. Inserted in the ledger are two receipts and an undated note to "Fay."

Biographical / historical:

H. A. Buchanan may have been Hugh Alexander Buchanan, a Wythe County, Virginia farmer. Hugh Alexander Buchanan was born April 18, 1837. During the Civil War, a Hugh A. Buchanan served as a sergeant in Company B, 29th Virginia Infantry. The 1880 census describes Hugh A. Buchanan as a 43-year-old farmer, living in Wythe County with wife Mary and a daughter. By 1900, the Buchanans were living in Marion (Smyth County), with Hugh still listed as a farmer. Hugh Alexander Buchanan died April 19, 1914 and was buried in Marion (Smyth County), Virginia.

Mary Fayetta McMullin, born in Smyth County, Virginia, on June 2, 1871, was the daughter of Lafayette and Mary Jane Wood McMullin. She married William Jacob Peterson (1863-1916), of North Carolina, about 1892. The 1900 census lists a 28-year-old Fayetta Peterson living in Salem, North Carolina. A native of Virginia, she was living with husband William Peterson; children Pauline and William Mcm. Peterson; an aunt; and a servant. The family were listed as residents of Winston, North Carolina, in the 1910 census. By 1930, a widowed Fayetta Peterson, 59, was living in the Winston-Salem home of her daughter and son-in-law, Agnes and Thomas J. Boyd. Mary Fayetta McMullin Peterson, wife of William J. Peterson, died on July 24, 1930, and was buried in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Acquisition information:
The H. A. Buchanan Ledger was purchased by Special Collections and University Archives in 1988.
Processing information:

The processing and description of the H. A. Buchanan Ledger commenced and was completed in April, 2021.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard