PUBLIC "-//Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society//TEXT (US::vicahi::vicahi00024::A Guide to the Amherst Wickline Poem: Memory of a little log church, 1944)//EN" "vicahi00024.xml" A Guide to the Amherst B. Wickline Poem: Memory of a little log church, 1944 MS 633 Miranda Burnett © 2022 By Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Machine-readable finding aid derived from being created directly into EAD, created by Miranda Burnett, 21 December 2022 Description is in English A Guide to the Amherst B. Wickline Poem: Memory of a little log church, 1944 A Collection in the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society MS 633

Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. All rights reserved. 2022 Miranda Burnett Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Descriptive Summary Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Amherst B. Wickline Poem: Memory of a little log church, 1944 MS 633 Archive Room File 1 item. English Wickline, Amherst B. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

Amherst B. Wickline Poem: Memory of a little log church, MS 633, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia

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Biographical Information

Amherst Benonia Wickline (1866-1945) was born in Sweet Springs, West Virginia to John E. Wickline and Margaret Miller. Amherst married Ida May Walker (1872-1960) in 1899. They moved to Fluvanna County in the early 1900s, then to Albemarle County by 1920. Amherst lived the last 15 years of his life in Charlottesville on Belmont Avenue. He died in 1945 and was buried in Riverview Cemetery in Charlottesville.

Scope and Content

This is a 2 page poem written by Amherst B. Wickline, about his childhood church in Sweet Springs, West Virginia.

Index Terms Persons: Wickline, Amherst B., 1866-1945 Subjects: American poetry Geographical Names: Sweet Springs (W. Va.)