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Start Over Date range 1988 Subjects Farms and farming.

Gregory Winters, Compiler, Papers of William Wayt Family of Marshall County, 1867/2009, bulk 1892/1956 5.4 Linear Feet 5 ft. 4 1/2 in. (10 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (2 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (2 flat storage boxes, 1 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 4 in.)

Winters, Gregory J.
William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials include diaries for several family members; transcripts of letters; miscellaneous manuscript materials, literary books and clippings; church and farm books; and articles from the Hillbilly newspaper that relate to the Wayt family in particular and to life in West Virginia in general. Twenty-two volumes of William Blaine Wayt's diaries form the bulk of this collection and document his life from his youth in the 1890s to his death in 1956, offering details of his family's daily activities and providing insight into the life of a rural West Virginia farmer and teacher during the first half of the 20th century. Collection also includes several files of notes and materials collected by Gregory Winters during his research on the Wayt family. There is also an addendum of Wayt family material consisting mostly of photographs. See scope and content note for details.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, Dean's Office Records, 1940/2008 492.08 Linear Feet 535 boxes of assorted sizes. **The total linear feet is a very rough estimate

West Virginia University. Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. Dean's Office

This collection contains records from the Dean's Office of the West Virginia University's Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, ranging from the late-1940s to the mid-2000s.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodrow Mosley, Coal Miner, Interview Transcript, 1988 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in.

Mosley, Woodrow
Transcript of an interview with a retired coal miner of Lincoln County, WV. Mosley lived and worked in the coal fields of Logan County, WV and Pike County, KY most of his life. He started to work in 1929 when mining was still done by pick and shovel and retired in the early sixties when mining had become mechanized. He describes the changes in mining technology he experienced and the effect of unionization in the coal mining region of southern West Virginia.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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