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Monongalia County Historical Records, 1792/1982, bulk 1878/1976 43.7 Linear Feet 43 ft. 8 in. (75 document cases, 5 in. each); (8 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (11 flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (3 index card boxes, 12 in. each); (4 record cartons, 15 in. each)

Collection of records mostly relating to the history of Monongalia County, West Virginia. Over 300 historical photographs in this collection are available through the "digital material" link.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Morton Genealogical Inquiries Collection, 1844/1960 2.00 Linear Feet

Morton, Margaret H.

Correspondence and notes on Virginia families by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton, genealogist, of Farmville, Virginia in response to inquires. Most of her notes are transcriptions of courthouse records, though she often created family trees for clients and clients sometimes sent their genealogy history to her.

  1. College of William and Mary

Morton Genealogy Collection, 1830/1978 2.01 Linear Feet

Morton, Margaret H.

Genealogy material compiled by Mr. William S. Morton and his wife, Mrs. Margaret H. Morton of Farmville, Virginia which trace the descendants of Joseph Morton of Prince Edward County, Virginia and allied families. Includes primary source material, such as the 1830 daybook of the J. J. Dupuy Company of Charlotte Court House. Also, contains typescript of Richard Lee Morton's copy of Hugh Blair Grigsby's notes on the Robert Rose Diary and of William Cryer's transcript of the Charles Campbell diaries.

  1. College of William and Mary

Nathan Ochs Family Papers, 1813/1970, bulk 1884/1924 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Ochs family
Papers of the Nathan Ochs family of Shelby and Jefferson County, Kentucky, document the family history from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century and chiefly concern his children. Letters from siblings Simon, Nathan Jr., and Sallie Ochs are written from Kentucky to their brother, Charles, in California between 1884 and the early 1900s. Topics chiefly include the weather, their farms (crops, animals, and farm workers), family news, and their mother's illness and death. Genealogical records document the history of the family beginning with Nathan Ochs, who was born in Germany in the 1820s. These materials include naturalization papers for Nathan Ochs, genealogical charts for his descendants, and a narrative history of the family written by Shirley A. Ochs Cocke in 1970.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Olive Knotts Cox, Compiler, Genealogy, 1840/1959 2.5 Linear Feet Summary: 2 ft. 6 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 records carton, 15 in.)

Cox, Olive Knotts.
Genealogical information regarding the Cox, Menefee, Knotts, and Jennings families of West Virginia compiled by Olive Knotts Cox, a descendant of the Menefee and Knotts families. Includes correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, annotated Bibles, diplomas, and other material. Also includes a collection of over 70 family photographs (ca.1880-1970). Most photographs are candid or portrait shots and are labeled with names (some also identify places and dates). Five photographic portraits are tintypes dating from the mid to late 1800s, two of which are mounted in cases.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Oliver Popenoe, Compiler, Genealogical Material Regarding Popenoe Family, 1911/2010 0.4 Linear Feet Summary: 5 in. (1 document case)

Genealogical material regarding the Popenoe (Papineau, Popino, and other spellings) family and related families (including the Burris, Davis, Dent, Evans, Judy, Martin, Morgan, Prickett, Scott, and Snider families), compiled through the research of Oliver Popenoe. The Poponoe family in North America is traced back to Jean Papineau, a French Huguenot who immigrated to Massachusetts ca. 1700. His son Peter settled in what would later become Monongalia county in the 1770s. This collection includes narratives, family trees, maps, correspondence, research notes, photocopies from books and other publications, transcriptions of original documents, newspaper articles, land surveys, and other material.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pennsylvania and West Virginia Genealogies, 1944/1963 0.15 Linear Feet Summary: 1 3/4 in. (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Genealogy, family line forms, index, and a family chart of the Bear-Baer and allied families. Compiled by Earle E. Baer, Pittsburgh, PA. Several pages on the Swisher-Bush, and Smith Townsend families were compiled by L. Bush Swisher, Morgantown, and Townsend J. Smith, Tucson, AZ. Also includes the family lines of Bear-Baer, Boreman, Bush, Cook, Edwards, Jackson, Keller, Kurtz-Kurz, Newman, Pursglove, Sellers, Smith, Spencer, Stalnaker-Stelnaker, Steinaker, Watson, and Young-Jung.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Philip L. Barbour Papers, 1935/1980 4.50 Linear Feet

Papers, 1935-1980, of historian and scholar Philip Lemont Barbour (1898-1980), including research notes for his historical writings on the settlement of North America. Most articles, clippings and notes concern those people associated with Captain John Smith, a leader of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.

  1. College of William and Mary

Piper-Smith Family Genealogy Records, 1795/1996, bulk 1990/1996 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Genealogies of the William Piper (de Piper) family from 1767 to 1996, and of the Jacob Smith family from 1758 to 1979. Genealogies include brief histories and indexes of family descendants. There are also photocopies and transcriptions of William Piper's legal records: his marriage certificate, a deed, and an appraisal of his estate with a list of items sold after his death. William Piper was born in Scotland in 1767, eventually immigrating to America, where he died in Virginia in 1836.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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