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Brodnax Papers, 1870/1926 538.00 Linear Feet

Letters written to John Wilkes Brodnax concerning genealogy of the Brodnax family. Many letters written by members of the Brodnax family. Includes genealogical data on Bathurst, Munford, Perkins, Smith, Holmes, and Walker families. Includes a photograph of Brodnax at work on a bust of Hunter McGuire and two publications by Brodnax on art and anatomy.

  1. College of William and Mary

Gerald Stephens, Compiler, Stephens and Smith Family Genealogy, 1897/2002, bulk 1920/2002 3.3 Linear Feet 3 ft. 3 1/2 in. (2 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 photograph box, 7 in.); (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.) 1.41 Gigabytes 3 files, formats include .iso, .cue, .md5

Stephens, Gerald
Genealogy of the Stephens and Smith families, primarily covering the 18th to 21st centuries. The families are related through the 1899 marriage of Ora Mae Smith to Leaman Clark Stephens in Ritchie County, West Virginia. Includes series of 1) Genealogy Notebooks, 2) Transcripts of Compiled Genealogies, 3) Miscellaneous Notes and Papers, 4) Stephens Family Genealogy Papers, 5) Smith Family Genealogy Papers, 6) Genealogy Research Correspondence, 7) Photographs, and addenda.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Goodwin Family Papers, 1826/1959 1.85 Linear Feet

Ballard, James William, 1875-1920

Letters, memoirs, journals, sermons, monographs, genealogical material concerning the Goodwin, Archer, Silvester, Ballard and Smith families.

  1. College of William and Mary

Hall and Gandy Families (Preston County, W.Va.) Genealogy, 1989 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (1 folder)

Genealogical descent charts of the Hall, Gandy, and allied families of Preston, County, West Virginia, from 1724 to 1961 as compiled by Clarence M. Smith in 1989. Typescript chiefly lists descendants of George Brown Hall (1824-1882) of Preston County, West Virginia, and his wife, Nancy Gooseman Gandy (1828-1917), also of Preston County. along with birth, marriage, and death dates.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Michael K. Johnson, Collector, Papers, 1830/1958 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Johnson, Michael K.
Correspondence, business records, legal papers, and miscellaneous papers of the Haldeman, Baldwin, and Smith families of Monongalia and Preston counties in West Virginia and of Greene, Fayette, and Washington counties in Pennsylvania. The major portion of the collection relates to the business dealings of the Rev. T.A. Haldeman, who built and repaired carriages, wagons, and buggies at a shop in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and also dealt in fruits and vegetables. There is genealogical material on the Haldeman family, information about the Drummond Chapel Sunday School (Morgantown, West Virginia), and the journal of the Rev. T.H. Trainer (1881-1899), who served Drummond Chapel, Rock Forge, Woodland, Mellon, and other Monongalia County churches.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Family Histories, 1945 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 folder

Monongalia County (W.Va.)
A guide to local history and genealogy compiled by L.D. Arnett. Includes an index to family Bible records compiled by Rachel Cox. Includes information for the following families: Baker, Beall, Burris, Chipps, Clark, Colebank, Crow, Dean, Evans, Fleming, Gapin, Garlow, Haldeman, Hall, Henry, Hickman, Hill, Hyman, Jenkins, Kelley, Lynch, Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Morrison, Musgrave, O'Neal, Pethtel, Pindall, Price, Ross, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Shriver, Smith, Steele, and VanCamp.
  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

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers, 1774/1943 5.5 Linear Feet 5 ft. 6 in. (10 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (2 large flat storage boxes, 3 1/2 in. each); (1 large flat storage box, 3 in.); (3 oversize folders, 1 in.)

Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook. They include military records and clippings regarding West Virginia units, the Confederate 31st Virginia Infantry, and other Confederate units from Virginia; there are also business and miscellaneous records, including ledgers, clippings, research notes, etc. Series 9 includes oversized material from earlier series.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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