Lucy Gordon Howe Copenhaver Scrapbook Undated

Access and use

Location of collection:
Wytheville Community College
F.B. Kegley Library
Wytheville Community College
Smyth Hall, Room 103
1000 East Main Street
Wytheville, VA 24382
Contact for questions and access:
POC: William A. “Bill” Veselik
Phone: (276) 223-4876
POC: George Mattis
Phone: (276) 223-4744
Fax: (276) 223-4745
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Lucy Gordon Howe Copenhaver Scrapbook, Mss. Collection 2001.6, Kegley Library, Wytheville Community College, Wytheville, VA

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Lucy Gordon Howe Copenhaver Scrapbook, Mss. Collection 2001.6, Kegley Library, Wytheville Community College, Wytheville, VA

Background

Scope and content:

The scrapbook contains 70 pages with newspaper clippings on the history of Pulaski County, Newbern, Dublin, and the Gordon family and Copenhaver family. Photocopies of many pages have been placed in the appropriate vertical files for Pulaski County, Newbern, Farrow Family, Howe Family, and Copenhaver Family.

Biographical / historical:

Lucy Gordon Howe, born 24 February 1879, married Robert Moses Copenhaver 28 June 1905. Copenhaver, the son of Andrew Jackson Copenhaver and Eliza Jane Barns, was born 5 July 1873. The couple lived on their farm in Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia, where they raised seven children: Eliza Katherine Copenhaver (married Walter Beverly Gordon); Sallie Virginia Copenhaver (married Horace Arrington SouthworthO); Lucy Haven Copenhaver (married Dr. Benjamin Franklin Gunter); Robert Jackson Copenhaver (married Jean Wygal); Rufus Pierce Copenhaver (married Mary Elizabeth Mustard); Mary Howe Copenhaver (married Francis Nelson McGavock); and Charles Cushing Copenhaver (married Elva Styron).

Acquisition information:
Donated by Ruth Ann Chitwood in 2001 as part of the W. R. Chitwood Collection.
Physical description:
1 volume.