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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Greenville D. Wood Account Books, Ms1940-028, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Greenville D. Wood Account Books were donated to the university in 1939 and transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in 1955.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Greenville D. Wood Account Books commenced and was completed in November 2011. Initial desscription was completed in or prior to May 1970.
Greenville Darius Wood was born to Richard J. and Judith Anne Shortt Wood on November 9, 1866. Following the 1892 death of his first wife, Melissa Graham, Wood married Lilly Barnard in 1895, and the couple had five children. Wood seems to have lived his entire adult life in the Little River District of Floyd County, Virginia, where he worked as a merchant and farmer. Greenville D. Wood died on September 13, 1943, and is buried in Floyd County's Harvestwood Cemetery.
This collection contains three ledgers maintained by Greenville D. Wood, proprietor of a general mercantile business in Turtle Rock (Floyd County), Virginia, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The collection is arranged by type then chronologically.
The guide to the Greenville D. Wood Account Books by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your- work/public-domain/cc0/).