A Guide to the William J. Norfleet Papers, 1934-1955
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 26217
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Preferred Citation
William J. Norfleet Papers, 1934-1955. Accession 26217, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. William J. Norfleet, 15 January 1965.
Biographical/Historical Information
William James Norfleet was born in Amelia County, Virginia on 20 October 1885. He was the son of William Chamberlayne Norfleet and Florence Flournoy. He married Carrie Knoll Mason (b. 1887) on 16 November 1920. They had two daughters. William J. Norfleet was employed as an accountant and auditor with the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1917 to 1935, and was Chief Accountant with the Federal Communications Commission from 1935 until his retirement in 1955.
Scope and Content Information
Papers, 19334-1955, of William J. Norfleet (b. 1885) of Bethesda, Maryland. Includes research files on Amelia County, research files on railroads, and personal files.
Series I, Amelia County Research Files, include information on a variety of topics related to the county's history and its people. They contain abstracts relating to Amelia County from the Acts of Assembly, Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Journals of the House of Burgesses and House of Delegates, legislative petitions, various order books, and newspapers. Also included is information on the county's churches, various families, notable individuals, landmarks, post roads and mail service, Revolutionary and Confederate soldiers, county formation and boundaries and other topics. Of particular note in this series is information on Lewis E. Harvie (1809-1887) written by his son Edwin J. Harvie (1835-1911), genealogical notes on the Norfleet family compiled by Matilda Augusta Norfleet, and Bible records of the Burfoot and Tucker families.
Series II, Railroad Research Files, contain clippings, correspondence, information on early railroads in the United States and Virginia, and files relating to specific railroad companies. There is a substantial amount of information concerning the Winchester and Potomac Railroad.
Series III, Personal Files, include clippings, correspondence, personnel files, a few photographs, and miscellaneous material. Much of the information in this series relates to Norfleet's service with the Federal Communications Commission.
Organization
Series I. Amelia County Research Files. Series II. Railroad Research Files. Series III. Personal Files.
Contents List
The Amelia County Research Files include information on a variety of topics related to the county's history and its people. They contain abstracts relating to Amelia County from the Acts of Assembly, Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Journals of the House of Burgesses and House of Delegates, legislative petitions, various order books, and newspapers. Also included is information on the county's churches, various families, notable individuals, landmarks, post roads and mail service, Revolutionary and Confederate soldiers, county formation and boundaries and other topics. Of particular note in this series is information on Lewis E. Harvie (1809-1887) written by his son Edwin J. Harvie (1835-1911), genealogical notes on the Norfleet family compiled by Matilda Augusta Norfleet, and Bible records of the Burfoot and Tucker families.
- Box 1 Folder 1
Acts of Assembly and Council Journals (Abstracts)
- Box 1 Folder 2
Amelia County Order Book 1, 1735-1746
- Box 1 Folder 3
Amelia County Order Book 2, 1746-1751
- Box 1 Folder 4
Amelia County Order Books (Abstracts)
- Box 1 Folder 5
Amelia County Wills and Administrations, 1735-1800 (Index)
- Box 1 Folder 6
Birds
- Box 1 Folder 7
Bott, William
- Box 1 Folder 8
Briggs, George R. - Recollections of Civil War Service
- Box 1 Folder 9
Burk, John Daly
- Box 1 Folder
10
Calendar of Virginia State Papers (Abstracts)
- Box 1 Folder
11
Census of Pensioners, 1840
- Box 1 Folder
12
Christ Church Sunday School - Memories by Mary Southall Hardaway
- Box 1 Folder
13
Churches
- Box 1 Folder
14
Churches - Baptist
- Box 1 Folder
15
Churches - Dutch Reformed (Mattoax)
- Box 1 Folder
16
Churches - Episcopal
- Box 1 Folder
17
Churches - Methodist
- Box 1 Folder
18
Churches - Presbyterian
- Box 1 Folder
19
Clerks
- Box 1 Folder
20
Clippings
- Box 1 Folder
21
Confederate Soldiers of Amelia County
- Box 1 Folder
22
Council Members, Burgesses, Delegates, Senators
- Box 1 Folder
23
County Formation and Boundaries
- Box 1 Folder
24
Dawson, Musgrave
- Box 1 Folder
25
Entertainments - Reconstruction Period
- Box 1 Folder
26
Evans, Moses Ford Thomas
-
Families of Amelia County
- Box 1 Folder
27
Archer
- Box 1 Folder
28
Berkeley
- Box 1 Folder
29
Bibb
- Box 1 Folder
30
Bolling - "Bollingbrooke"
- Box 1 Folder
31
Booker
- Box 1 Folder
32
Brunskill
- Box 1 Folder
33
Burfoot Family Bible Records
- Box 1 Folder
34
Chappell
- Box 1 Folder
35
Clement
- Box 1 Folder
36
Cobbs
- Box 1 Folder
37
Cocke
- Box 1 Folder
38
Cooke
- Box 1 Folder
39
Eggleston
- Box 1 Folder
40
Finney
- Box 1 Folder
41
Flournoy
- Box n/a/
Flournoy-Poindexter Parke Genealogical Chart (Filed in Genealogical Charts)
- Box 1 Folder
42
Giles
- Box 1 Folder
43
Gregory
- Box 1 Folder
44
Grigg
- Box 2 Folder
1
Harrison
- Box 2 Folder
2
Harvie
- Box 2 Folder
3-6
Harvie, Edwin James, "Life and Times of Lewis E. Harvie, 1895 (2 copies)
- Box 2 Folder
7
Hundley
- Box 2 Folder
8
Jeter
- Box 2 Folder
9
Jones
- Box 2 Folder
10
Mason
- Box 2 Folder
11
Meaux
- Box 2 Folder
12
Mumford/Munford
- Box 2 Folder
13
Nash
- Box 2 Folder
14
Norfleet
- Box 2 Folder
15-16
"Norfleet Clan" compiled by Matilda Augusta Norfleet, 1936-1937 (2 copies)
- Box 2 Folder
17
Pride
- Box 2 Folder
18
Robertson
- Box 2 Folder
19
Southall
- Box 2 Folder
20
Southall Family Military Records
- Box 2 Folder
21
Tabb
- Box 2 Folder
22
Terhune
- Box 2 Folder
24
Truehart
- Box 2 Folder
25
Tucker Family Bibles
- Box 2 Folder
26
Walker
- Box 2 Folder
27
Walton
- Box 2 Folder
28
Willson/Wilson
- Box 2 Folder
29
Miscellaneous Notes on Amelia Families
- Box 1 Folder
27
- Box 2 Folder
30
Fanning, David
- Box 2 Folder
31
Finney Deed, 1747
- Box 2 Folder
32
Giles Bridge
- Box 2 Folder
33
"Glenmore"
- Box 2 Folder
34
Hanks, Nancy
- Box 2 Folder
35
Historical Markers
- Box 2 Folder
36
Horses
- Box 2 Folder
37
Indians
- Box 2 Folder
38
Journals of the House of Burgesses (Abstracts)
- Box 2 Folder
39
Journal of the House of Delegates, 7 December 1808
- Box 2 Folder
40
Justices
- Box 2 Folder
41
Land Marks
- Box 2 Folder
42
Land Patents and Grants
- Box 2 Folder
43
Legislative Petitions (Abstracts)
- Box 2 Folder
44
Lost "Clergy List" of 1758
- Box 2 Folder
45
Maps
- Box 2 Folder
46
Mills
- Box 2 Folder
47
Mines and Minerals
- Box 2 Folder
48
Miscellaneous Notes
- Box 2 Folder
49
Money
- Box 2 Folder
50
"Morven"
- Box 2 Folder
51
Moton, Robert Russa
- Box 3 Folder 1
Newspaper Abstracts, 1800-1836
- Box n/a
Notebooks (3) Containing Notes on Amelia County History
- Box 3 Folder 2
Obituaries in Richmond Newspapers, 1804-1838 (Index)
- Box 3 Folder 3
Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty
- Box 3 Folder 4
Pioneers
- Box 3 Folder 5
Pleasants, James
- Box 3 Folder 6
Post Roads and Mail Service
- Box 3 Folder 7
Proctor, William
- Box 3 Folder 8
Railroads
- Box 3 Folder 9
Revolutionary War Data from McAllister's Virginia Militia
- Box 3 Folder
10
Robertson, Beverly Holcombe
- Box 3 Folder
11
Ruffin, Edmund
- Box 3 Folder
12
Schools
- Box 3 Folder
13
Soldiers of Amelia County
- Box 3 Folder
14
Thomson, John
- Box 3 Folder
15
Thompson, Wiley
- Box 3 Folder
16
Tombstone Inscriptions
- Box 3 Folder
17
Walker, John William
- Box 3 Folder
18
Walker, Leroy Pope
- Box 3 Folder
19
War Between the States
The Railroad Research Files contain clippings, correspondence, information on early railroads in the United States and Virginia, and files relating to specific railroad companies. There is a substantial amount of information concerning the Winchester and Potomac Railroad.
- Box 4 Folder 1
Clippings
- Box 4 Folder 2
Correspondence re: Inquiries and Research Materials, 1934-1935
- Box 4 Folder 3
Early Railroads in the United States
- Box 4 Folder 4
Early Railroads in Virginia
-
Specific Railroads
- Box 4 Folder
5
Amelia Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
6
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
7
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
8
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
9
Chesapeake and Ohio Company
- Box 4 Folder
10
Chesterfield Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
11
City Point Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
12
Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad
- Box 4 Folder
13
Experimental Railway
- Box 4 Folder
14
Falling Creek Railway
- Box 4 Folder
15
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
- Box 4 Folder
16
Greenville and Roanoke Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
17
Lynchburg and New River Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
18
New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
19
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
- Box 4 Folder
20
Petersburg Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
21
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
22
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
- Box 4 Folder
23
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
24
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
25
Staunton and Potomac Railroad
- Box 4 Folder
26
Southern Railway Company
- Box 4 Folder
27
Valley Railroad
- Box 4 Folder
28
Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
29
Winchester and Strausburg Railroad Company
- Box 4 Folder
5
The Personal Files include clippings, correspondence, personnel files, a few photographs, and miscellaneous material. Much of the information in this series relates to Norfleet's service with the Federal Communications Commission.
- Box 4 Folder
30-31
Clippings
- Box 4 Folder
32
Correspondence
- Box 4 Folder
33
Miscellaneous
- Box 4 Folder
34
Personnel
- Box 4 Folder
35
Photographs