Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

Mimeographed typescript containing genealogical information on the Ball, Blue, Guthrie, Harminson, Kuykendall, Pancake, and Smith families; also some information on the genealogy of Thomas Parsons and John Marshall (John Marshall of the Forest). Most of these families were early settlers in the Hardy-Hampshire County area. Material covers the years 1704-1954.

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.

A printed address regarding the ancestry of the Hacker and Smith families, originally delivered by J.W. Smith at a family reunion in 1956.

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.

An account book from Skimino, York County, Virginia, which mentions several members of the Bates, Cole, Harrison, More, and Smith families. The journal lists expenses incurred in moving from York County to Mount Pleasant, Ohio, in 1817. There is a typed index to names in the journal, and a typed narrative on the Harrison and Bates families.

A history of the descendants of William Kelley and Elwood Smith of Brown's Chapel, Monongalia County, West Virginia, entitled "William Kelley - Elwood Smith Genealogy," written by Charles W. Duncil. This typescript includes six photographs of family members and old family homes. Material covers the years 1730-1989.

L. Henry Smith (b. circa 1805) was an attorney in Bruceton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia, in the mid-nineteenth century. He and his wife, Martha, had nine children, including Lucian H. Smith (b. circa 1830) and William W. Smith (b. circa 1848). Papers of the L. Henry Smith family chiefly include receipts, bills, notes, and letters from 1823 to 1878 and primarily concern Henry Smith, Lucian Smith, and William Smith, though materials from other family members are included. Box 1 contains financial materials for Jacob Smith from the 1830s and 1840s; receipts for purchases made by Henry Smith between the 1850s and 1870s (mostly for sewing supplies such as fabric, trimmings, and lace); promissory notes; and other financial items. Box 2 contains letters to various members of the Smith family from the 1850s to the 1870s. Topics chiefly include merchandising; Henry Smith's legal and financial matters in Preston County; and news of friends and family in the Bruceton Mills and Uniontown, Pennsylvania, areas. Several letters from the 1860s relate to buying blue cloth to make Civil War uniforms and substitutes in the Union army. Letters from the late 1860s related to West Virginia University, where William Smith was a student. Box 3 contains miscellaneous items primarily related to West Virginia politics in the 1870s and West Virginia Governor John Jeremiah Jacob.

Genealogy, correspondence, deeds, and wills of the Linthicum and Smith families of Hampshire County, Virginia. There is also one unidentified photograph.

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.

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.