Hardwick Family Correspondence, 2007

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Hardwick Family Correspondence, Ms2009-126, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Abstract:
This collection contains a spiral-bound copy of Hardwick family letters transcribed by Charles Graham Burress, Jr. The letters are supplemented with historical notes regarding various members of the Hardwick family.
Language:
The material in the collection is in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Hardwick Family Correspondence, Ms2009-126, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains several transcribed letters and diary entries from about 1877-1950. In addition to the transcribed letters and diary entries, this collection contains biographical information on various members of the Hardwick family.

Biographical / historical:

Younger Hardwick (1792-1850) married Susannah Kinzer in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1828. Younger and Susannah had five children: Alonzo Cecil (1830-1899), Thomas Germaine (1832-1914), Catherine Elouise (1835-1867), Elizabeth Arminta (1837-1900), and James Kinzer (1838-1903). Alonzo married Susan Wilson in 1860, and settled in an area of northeast Blacksburg, Virginia. They had seven children: Walton Jahue (1861-1898), William Marion H. (1864-died in infancy), James Thomas Sr. (1867-1921), Elliot Vinyard (?-1874, died in infancy), Herbert S. (1875-1917), Bessie Sullivan (1879-1917), and Samuel Elkanah (1882-1975).

Thomas Germaine married Mary Elizabeth (Mollie) Smith in 1867, and settled in Newport, Giles County, Virginia. The couple had nine children: Ada Susannah Rebecca (1868-1876), Alonzo James (1870-1926), Charles Abram (1872-1956), Virginia Elizabeth (1874-1890), Thomas Viceroy (1875-1943), Henrietta Catharine (1877-1886), Lula Lee (1880-1953), Frank Staples (1882-1944), Mary Florence (1884-1965).

Acquisition information:
The Hardwick Family Correspondence was donated to Special Collections in April 2009.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Hardwick Family Correspondence commenced and was completed in September 2009.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by material type.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard