McCue Family Papers, ca. 1767-1944

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
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Preferred citation:

McCue Family Papers, Accession #4406, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

McCue Family Papers, Accession #4406, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of the papers of the McCue family, ca. 1767-1944, ca.10,000 items including correspondence, legal and business papers, legal case notes, genealogical material, school notebooks and bound volumes, and Confederate Army commissary records. The collection pertains chiefly to the Reverend John McCue (1758-1818), of Augusta County, Virginia, and his descendants, including: his son, John McCue, his grandson, Judge John Howard McCue (1824-1890), lawyer of Lovingston, Nelson County, and of Staunton, Virginia, and Confederate officer of the "Floyd Brigade," Fifty-first Regiment, Virginia troops; and William T. McCue, lawyer and prominent Democrat, of Staunton, Virginia, son of John Howard McCue. The bulk of the collection concerns the family and career of Judge John Howard McCue. The Civil War records are the fairly complete files of quartermaster activity in the 51st Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, kept by John Howard McCue, including sales to officers, boards of survey, issues to the troops, invoices, abstracts, and the routes of campaign in Southwest Virginia. The 51st organized at Wytheville two months following the first battle of Bull Run, with men from Wythe, Wise, Grayson, Tazewell, Nelson, Amherst, Bland, and Patrick counties. While McCue was associated with the Regiment, it was involved chiefly in the Kanawha Valley and Fort Donelson region. The correspondence is largely concerned with the legal practice and the personal and business affairs of Judge John Howard McCue, but also includes other subjects of interest, which are listed on pages four through nine of this guide with the name of the correspondent and the date of the letter in which they occur.

Appointed Assistant Commissary of "Floyd Brigade," 51st Virginia Regiment, under Colonel Wharton on July 19, 1861

Concerning the circumstances of the retreat of General John B. Floyd from Carnifex Ferry on September 10, 1861

McCue was on trial for spying in Baltimore

Confederate Money, Virginia Treasury Notes, County of Augusta Notes, and Richmond Note

Bavarian consul

Aurelia Halsey, Aurelia P. McCue, B. Taylor McCue, Don H. McCue, E.M. McCue, Elizabeth McCue, Eller S. McCue, H.B. McCue, Hannah McCue, [Irvin?] McCue, James McCue, Jr., James M. McCue, the Rev. John McCue, John Willis McCue, Lina Linn McCue, M.H. McCue, M.M. McCue, Martha McCue, Mattie J. McCue, Otelia McCue, Richard McCue, Thomas W. McCue, W.A. McCue, William McCue

re the Salary of Judge John Howard McCue

1767-1814 (5 folders), 1815-1849 (7 folders), 1850-1853 September (7 folders), 1853 October-1856 (7 folders), 1857-1861 (8 folders), 1862-1870 (7 folders), 1871-1876 (9 folders), 1877-1911, n.d. (7 folders), n.d. (3 folders), 1798-1813 (Expense and Memoranda Book of [the Reverend John McCue])

The McCues of the Old Dominion, 1650-1912, 1912

1834-1888, n.d. (3 folders)
ca. 1841-1848 (Hawes Coleman Estate)
1874-1878 (re Lands of Colonel A.W. Harmon)

chiefly Augusta County, Virginia

including the Oath of Allegiance of John McCue

including Mr. and Mrs. J.W. McCue; a stereoscopic view of 24 South Broad Street, [Savannah, Georgia]; and the residence of Thomas Barry, Hillsboro, Ohio; the rest are unidentified

Includes election returns; the resolution of John H. Mc Cue re secession
John H. Mc Cue's letter to the editor re African-American suffrage
the Nelson County meeting re Andrew Jackson

Anti-Aircraft Artillery School, Camp Davis, N.C. of Lt. Charles P. McCue

Anti-Aircraft Replacement Training Center, Camp Stewart, Georgia of Lt. Charles P. McCue

Chemical Warfare and Military History of Lt. Charles P. McCue

Reserve Officer Training Corps of Lt. Charles P. McCue

re Physiology and Acoustics belonging to Lucien Guy Heneberger

re Shakespeare belonging to Fannie M. Kyle

re Elizabethan Poets and Dramatists belonging to Fannie M. Kyle

re English Synonyms belonging to Fannie M. Kyle

re Literary Chronology belonging to Fannie M. Kyle

re [Anatomy?] belonging to Massie L. McCue

re Physiology, Anatomy belonging to Massie L. McCue

re [Chemistry?] belonging to Massie L. McCue

re Chemistry belonging to Massie L. McCue

re Materia Medica belonging to Massie L. McCue

re [Medicine ?] belonging to Massie L. McCue

re [Biology, Medicine] belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Inorganic Chemistry belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re French and Histology belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re German belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Latin, Physics, Psychology belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Latin, Physics, Psychology belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Latin belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Pathology belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Pharmacy, Materia Medica belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Philosophy belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Physics, Chemistry Physics belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Physiology belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Religion, Mathematics, and Geometry belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Surgical Pathology belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Treatment belonging to McDaniel Purcell

re Mineralogy belonging to Sam Purcell

re Chemistry belonging Lyon G. Tyler

re Chemistry, Physics belonging Lyon G. Tyler

of a Wood House, with three privies and a garden tool shed on the left side, and a smoke house on the right side, drawn for E. Taylor

Biographical / historical:

Most of the following notes come from the book The McCues of the Old Dominion (1912) by John N. McCue. There is a copy in the collection in box 17 and another copy in the Rare Books Division (CS 71 .M 132 1912) of Special Collections. The Reverend John McCue (1753-1818), of Augusta County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Allen (1761-1831), the daughter of James Allen and Margaret Anderson. John N. McCue graduated from Liberty Hall Academy (later became Washington and Lee University) in 1785, after studying theology with Dr. James Waddell. He had received his ministerial license at a meeting of the Hanover Presbytery in May 1782 at Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County.

Their children were: 1) James Andrew McCue (1783-1853) m. Margaret Trimble; 2) Mary McCue (1785-1853) m. Andrew Barry; 3) Dr. William McCue (1787-1818) m. Ann Isabella Barry; 4) Cyrus McCue (1789-1813); 5) John McCue of "Long Meadows"(1793-1862) m. (1st) Hannah Winters Moffett and (2nd) Eleanor Douglass; 6) Colonel Franklin McCue (1795-1874) m. (1st) Jane Crawford and (2nd) Nancy Crawford; 7) Washington McCue (1797-1798); 8) Eliza (Betsy) McCue (1798-1819) m. John Porterfield; 9) Margaret McCue (1802-1880) m. George Miller; 10) Nancy McCue (1804-1856) m. Jacob Matthews; and 11) Sallie McCue (1805-1885) m. General Joseph Jefferson McDowell.

Their son, John McCue of "Long Meadows"(1793-1862) who married Hannah Winters Moffett (d. 1845), and served in the Virginia General Assembly, had the following children by Hannah Winters Moffett: 1) Elizabeth McCue m. Colonel Davis S. Bell; 2) Judge John Howard McCue (1824-1890), who married in 1845, Signora C.E. Willis (d. 1907) of Nelson County; 3) Sarah McCue m. Dr. Cyrus Alexander; 4) Margaret Catharine McCue (d.1853) m. William B. Dorman; 5) James Moffett McCue (1827-1894) m. Elizabeth Josephine Gooch; 6) Evolina (Lina) McCue; 7) Captain William Andrew McCue (1836-1884) m. Mary Frances Miller; 8) Hannah Winters McCue (d. 1904); and 9) Martha Rachel McCue (1841-1911) m. Decator Hedges.

Judge John Howard McCue was a graduate of Washington College (1842) and the University of Virginia and practiced law in Nelson County, where he married Signora C.E. Willis, the niece of William E. Peters, of the University of Virginia. McCue became a judge in 1870 and also served as counsel for the Western Lunatic Asylum. Their children were: 1) John Willis McCue (1846-1911) m. (1st) Elizabeth I. Collins and (2nd) Lavinia Smith; 2) Don Howard McCue (1848-1893); 3) Betty Winters McCue (1851- 1852); 4) Signora Otelia McCue (1853-1884) m. Gabriel Santini; 5) Lina Linn McCue (1855-1886) m. Walter Sampson Sublett; 6) William Turner McCue (1857-?), unmarried, an attorney of Staunton, member of City Council, chairman of the county and City Democratic Central Committe, banker, and postmaster of Staunton (1893-1897); 7) James McDowell McCue (1861-?); 8) Eliabeth Winter McCue (1864-?) m. John Martin Perry; 9) Aurelia Peters McCue (1867-?) m. Colonel Benjamin Rush Norvell; and 10) Anna Janet (Birdie) McCue (1870--?) m. Percy Herring Wiess.

Acquisition information:

The papers were loaned to the University of Virginia Library on August 4, 1953 by Elizabeth Perry, of Staunton, Va.

The papers were made a gift to the University of Virginia Library on May 28, 2009 by Margaret Custis Archer Clark of Princeton, N.J., John Martin Perry Archer of Houston, Tex., and F. Mather Archer of Portsmouth, Va.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in two series: Series I: McCue Family Papers (Boxes 1-18), including: Civil War Records (Box 1); Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and names included in the folder listing (Boxes 2-9); Financial and Legal Papers, arranged chronologically (Boxes 9-17); Genealogy (Box 17); Legal Case Notes, Marriage Licenses, Miscellaneous, Photographs, and Political Papers (Box 18)

Series II: McCue Family Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 19-28), including: School Notebooks, etc. of C. Purcell McCue, Jr. (Boxes 19-24); Bound Volumes and Notebooks (Boxes 24-28)

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Physical description:
The collection consists of 28 Hollinger boxes, ca. 11 linear feet ca. 10,000 items