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Papers of Anna Shue Atkins (1918-2010), a poet, writer, and schoolteacher who was born and spent her early life in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Contains Atkins's poetry and autobiographical writings, as well as her genealogical research, legal documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material. See "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.

Genealogical research papers regarding the Boyce and related families in West Virginia. This collection is currently unprocessed.

Genealogy information regarding immediate descendants of the Joseph Cummens (1807-1893) and Margaret Stillwell (1809-1873) family. They lived in Morgantown, Virginia (West Virginia) at one time.

Family bible genealogy records of the Gardner family, including James Gardner (born in Ireland, and died in Cumberland, Maryland on December 1898), William Gardner (born in Lockport, Pennsylvania on 21 July 1868), and William Gardner (born in Cumberland, Maryland on 10 August 1905).

Genealogy of the Samuel Gorby family and James Cain family of Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel counties, from ca. 1700 to 1984.

Photocopy of the book West of the Alleghenies, compiled in 1961 by Harold W. Black, containing genealogical information about the related Hopwood, Gaddis, Norris, and Farmer families. Provides a narrative history of the families of John Hopwood (1745-1802) of Dumfries, Virginia; Thomas Gaddis (1736-1830) of Winchester, Virginia; William Norris of Maryland and then Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia); and John Farmer (1749-1810) of Winchester, Virginia, as well as a family tree. Material covers the years 1700-1961.

Genealogies of the Cantley (223 pages ) and Ellison (222 pages) families of Virginia and West Virginia, including indexes. The genealogies trace the families from the 1600s to the 1900s.

Six volumes contain family genealogies as compiled by John C. Bayles in the 1930s and 1940s. There is one volume for each of the following families--Bayles, Breakiron, Davis, Hawker, Reed, and Vandervort--and each volume contains an index for individuals in the related families. Box 1 contains the genealogy of the Frederick and Katherine Breakiron family, originally of Germany, from the 1780s to the 1930s; the Jehu and Eunice Painter Davis family, originally from New Jersey, from the early 19th century to the 1930s; the Owen and Mary Hawker family, originally from Kentucky and Winchester, Virginia, from 1775 to 1940; and the Paul and Neelje Staats Vandervoort family, originally from New Amsterdam (New York), from 1727 to 1950. Box 2 contains the genealogy of the John and Mary Hutchinson Reed family, originally from Ireland, from 1735 to 1944; and the Jesse and Marie Mulrain Bayles family, originally of Hartford County, Maryland, and Winchester, Virginia, from 1730 to 1930. All of the families eventually settled in Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Records and photographs documenting the history of southeastern West Virginia compiled by Summers County residents Fred Long and Stephen Trail. Many of the items were collected by a local newspaper, the Hinton Daily News (later the Hinton News). The collection focuses on the history of Summers County and Hinton from the mid-1700s to 2012, as well as the history of other areas in southeastern Virginia and western Virginia. Subjects include the town of Hinton, Hinton High School and Summers County schools, genealogy and family history, the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Railroad, archaeological and geographical features, other Summers County communities, wars, and other topics. Materials include a large quantity of photographs and negatives along with clippings, printed materials, ephemera, oral histories, maps, motion pictures, sound recordings, typescripts, manuscripts, and other types of materials. Many items are facsimiles of photos, documents, and newspapers.

Genealogy records regarding the Boyce, Dever, Gibson, Linder, and related families in the area of West Virginia (WV), Maryland, and Virginia.