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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Jim Greve, 18 February 2014 Description is in English 2014-02-18 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Arliss Shaffer Monk Papers, 1973-2011 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 50374 Jim Greve

Library of Virginia 2014 Jim Greve Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Arliss Shaffer Monk Papers, 1973-2011 50374 .9 cubic feet (2 boxes) English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Arliss Shaffer Monk Papers, 1973-2011. Accession 50374. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Arliss S. Monk, Greeley, Colorado.

Biographical Information

Arliss Jeanette Shaffer was born on 2 May 1921 in Ault, Colorado. She was the daughter of Joel Charles Shaffer and Bertha Melvina Nali. She graduated from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado), and taught high school in Colorado, Washington, and Virginia. Shaffer married William Woodward Monk on 15 June 1947. They moved to Staunton, Virginia, and in 1954, moved back to Colorado and settled in Greeley, where her and her husband operated a piano tuning business. She was a co-founder of the Weld County Genealogical Society, and a charter member of the Weld County Historical Society, and was a member of various other genealogical and historical societies. Arliss S. Monk died on 27 February 2013, and is buried in Linn Grove Cemetery in Greeley, Colorado.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1973-2011, of Arliss Shaffer Monk (1921-2013) of Greeley, Colorado, containing genealogical research on the Barkham, Corbin, Eltonhead, Ijams, Jenings, Philips, and Waters families of Lancaster, Loudoun, Middlesex, and York Counties, Virginia, and Maryland and England. The collection includes correspondence and research notes, and abstracts, copies, and transcriptions of census records, church records, court records, deeds, estate administration records, tax records, tombstone inscriptions, vital statistics, and wills. There are also guidebooks to Bruton Parish churchyard in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England.

Contents List Ahnentafel Chart for Arliss Jeanette Shaffer . 1 1 #158, 159 Jenings, Edmund/Waters, Mary . 1 2-3 #316, 317 Jenings, William/Philips, Mary . 1 4 #318, 319 Waters, John/Ijams, Mary . 1 5 #632, 633 Jenings, Edmund/Corbin, Francis . 1 6-9 #1264 Jenings, Sir Edmund . 1 10 #1266, 1267 Corbin, Henry/Eltonhead, Alice . 1 11 #2528 Jenings, Jonathan . 1 12 #2530 Barkham, Sir Edward . 1 13 #5056 Jenings, Peter . 1 14 Research Notes, J1-50 . 1 15 Research Notes, J51-100 . 1 16 Research Notes, J101-150 . 1 17 Research Notes, J151-200 . 2 1 Research Notes, J201-250 . 2 2 Research Notes, J251-300 . 2 3 Research Notes, J301-350 . 2 4 Research Notes, J351-400 . 2 5 Research Notes - Oversize . Oversize PP Box 13 Research Notes - Uncataloged . 2 6 Research Notes (Index) . 2 7 Bruton Parish Churchyard: A Guide With Map. 2 8 Corbin . 2 9 Jenings/Jennings (Isabel M. Willetts) . 2 10-11 Ripon Cathedral: Its History and Architecture. 2 12 Waters . 2 13