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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.

Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore, Griffith, Handley, Haptonstall, Hunter, Kincaid, Lisle, Lyle-Montgomery, Mann-McClintic, Mathews, Mauzy, McCue, McMillion, McNeel, Poage, Price, Quarrier, Rader, Renick, Revercomb, Shrewsbury, Steele, Walkup, Warwick, and Young-Kemper families. Correspondents include T.E. Hodges.

Family genealogies in this collection include: Allen, Anderson, Ashley, Bower, Bowling, Durry, Franklin, Glover, Johnson, Kincaid, Mathews, Overholt, Pennell, Rader, Savage, Settle, Stephenson, Ten Eyck, Thornberry, and Young. Material covers the years 1711-1955.

Family genealogies in this collection include: Alderson, Alkire, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ball, Barnes, Barnet, Bartlett, Bassel, Benedum, Bennett, Blake, Bonnett, Boughman, Brake, Burr, Bush, Carber, Carpenter, Carroll, Casto, Champe, Cheuvront, Chrislip, Cookman, Coplin, Corder, Couch, Cummins, Cunningham, Curry, Custis, Cutright, Davidson, Davis, Donnally, Douglass, Dyer, Eagan, Eastwood, Fairbank, Farnsworth, Fell, Flesher, Gaston, Gates, Girty, Goff, Goodloe, Hacker, Hagerman, Hall, Hamilton, Hamrick, Hardman, Hart, Hatcher, Haymond, Hiner, Hinzeman, Holt, Hughes, Hurst, Hutton, Jackson, Jewell, Kester, Laidley, Lawson, Lee, Lightburn, Lincoln, Lorentz, Loudin, Lowther, Mahan, Makowicz, Mann, Marple, Martin, Mathews, Maxwell, McClain, McWhorter, Morgan, Moore, Neely, Nicholas, Norris, Nutter, Peterson, Phillips, Poff, Pringle, Quarrier, Queen, Raines, Reger, Riddel, Ritter, Ruffner, Shoulders, Sims, Sleeth, Smith, Stalnaker, Starcher, Stitler, Stout, Strader, Straley, Stump, Swisher, Talbot, Tenney, Teter, Thomas, Thornhill, Tucker, Van Horn, Waggoner, Ward, Washington, Weimer, Westfall, White, Whittlesey, Williams, Wilson, Winans, and Woodford.

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.

Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.