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A Guide to the Eva Eubank Wilkerson Genealogical Research Files, 1944-1963 Wilkerson, Eva Eubank, 1884-1965 42858

A Guide to the Eva Eubank Wilkerson Genealogical Research Files, 1944-1963

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 42858


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
42858
Title
Eva Eubank Wilkerson Genealogical Research Files, 1944-1963
Extent
4.05 cubic feet (9 boxes)
Creator
Wilkerson, Eva Eubank, 1884-1965
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Eva Eubank Wilkerson Genealogical Research Files, 1944-1963. Accession 42858. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Charles Wilkerson, Richmond, Virginia, 28 September 2006.

Biographical Information

Eva Lee Eubank was born on 11 October 1884 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, the third of eleven children. She received her early education at a small school that her tobacco-planter father set up for his family and other neighborhood children. Unable to send all of his children on to higher education, he refused to send any of them. Determined to continue her education, Eva Eubank moved in with a relative in a nearby town and attended an upper-level school there. In 1902, she took a summer teaching course at the University of Virginia. She later returned to Mecklenburg County and began teaching at her old neighborhood school.

Beginning in 1907, she spent two years teaching at a one-room schoolhouse in King and Queen County, near St. Steven's Church, and taking short summer courses at the teacher's college in Fredericksburg. In May 1909, she married John Wilkerson, the brother of Eubank's teacher friend, Bessie Wilkerson. The couple eventually had four daughters and two sons, and moved several times, staying in and near Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia. During the Depression, Eva Wilkerson and her three younger children left the Center Cross farm where the family had been living and moved to Tappahannock. She there took on a project indexing Essex County court records for the Works Progress Administration. This work inspired her to compile Index to Marriages in Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655-1900 , which was published in 1953. After relocating to Richmond in 1948 to live with her youngest son, Charles Wilkerson (1921- ), she began a new career as a professional genealogist, continuing this work until 1963. Eva Eubank Wilkerson died in Richmond in July 1965.

Scope and Content

Genealogical research files, 1944-1963, of teacher and professional genealogist Eva Eubank Wilkerson (1884-1965) of Richmond, Virginia, chiefly consist of research files on numerous Virginia families. These family files are largely composed of Wilkerson's research notes, and often include letters from the client requesting the information. Much of the material in Wilkerson's notes is quoted directly from various primary sources such as wills, deeds, and marriage records, and occasionally from published reference works. As Wilkerson did not keep copies of her actual responses to clients, the information collected here is entirely in note form and consequently can be difficult to use. Other materials include research resources, such as an index to marriages and an index to deeds, both from unspecified localities; correspondence regarding research into unnamed families; personal budget information kept by Wilkerson, 1944-1946; and miscellaneous research notes on topics including Bladensfield Plantation in Richmond County, Virginia, and Goode's Bridge in Chesterfield County.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series 1. Family files Series 2. Research resources and other files

Contents List

Series 1. Family files, 1944-1963 .
Boxes 1-8

Files on families or groups of families being researched by professional genealogist Eva Eubank Wilkerson (1884-1965). Files consist chiefly of Wilkerson's research notes, and often include letters from the client requesting the information. Some of the resources Wilkerson frequently consulted in her research include primary sources such as wills, deeds, and marriage records, and miscellaneous reference works; much of the material in her notes is quoted directly from these sources. As Wilkerson did not keep copies of her actual responses to clients, the information collected here is entirely in note form and consequently can be difficult to use. Miscellaneous research notes on scattered families and topics including Bladensfield Plantation in Richmond County, Virginia, and Goode's Bridge in Chesterfield County are filed at the end of the series.

Arrangement: Wilkerson sometimes recorded notes about several families on the same set of papers or in the same notebook. Often, the various families are related. In other cases, they are found together only because Wilkerson was working on more than one project at a time. The original groupings have been maintained, and labeled according to the names contained therein (e.g. "Howell-Brown-Lewis-Willis"). The order of names in a grouping's label is typically determined by their order of appearance in the notes or correspondence. The groupings are then filed alphabetically by the first name in the label (Howell, in this example). Therefore, not all family names can be located by scanning the file names alphabetically (e.g., Brown, Lewis, and Willis are filed under Howell in the H's). This being the case, patrons are encouraged to use the "Ctrl+F" (Find) function to do a keyword search for names, in case they are not listed in alphabetical order. The names in parentheses listed after some of the file groupings are those of the clients requesting the research.

  • Box 1 Folder 1
    Abbott-Amiss

    Family files for: Abbott; Allen-Kemp-Nalle-Gatewood-Burnett (Albert Nalle); and Amiss

  • Box 1 Folders 2-5
    Anderson

    Family files for: Anderson (Beatrice M. Doughtie)

  • Box 1 Folder 6
    Anderson, etc.

    Family files for: Anderson-Dulin-Duling-Harris (Roberta Dulin Stewart)

  • Box 1 Folder 7
    Appling-Averett, etc.

    Family files for: Appling (F.E. Appling); Atkins (Mattie A. Smith); Averett-Averitt-Avery-Everett (Christine Walser)

  • Box 1 Folder 8
    Bacon, etc. - Bates

    Family files for: Bacon-Finch (Jennie R. Smith); Bagby-Garrett-Bache; Ball (Nora H. Sweeny); Ballard (Mary J. Arrington); Banks; Barnes; Bartlett (Virginia Winfree Gibbon); Bates (Evan L. Reed); Beck (Charles O'Connor)

  • Box 1 Folder 9
    Bennett-Bougham

    Family files for: Bennett (Jonathan Smith); Berry; Berryman; Bible (Mrs. Philip L. Bible); Bishop (Roy O. Bishop); Boniface-Frisbee (Richard Boss Sarver); Bougham

  • Box 1 Folder 10
    Berry, etc.

    Family files for: Berry-Dudley-Kimbrough (Etta B. Heap)

  • Box 2 Folder 1
    Boultinghouse, etc. - Branson

    Family files for: Boultinghouse-Boltinghouse (Mrs. Carl Frasier); Boulware (Frances Arnold); Bowen-Bowin (Vivian Bullock); Bowen-Bryarly-Bonham; Bowie-Cowan-Catlett-Coppedge (Mildred Cowan Siever); Branson (D.P. Branson)

  • Box 2 Folder 2
    Breedlove, etc.

    Family files for: Breedlove-Bowles-Wood-Pagett-Fletcher

  • Box 2 Folder 3
    Broadnax-Byers, etc.

    Family files for: Broadnax (Benjamin F. Akin); Broadway (Mrs. R. R. Broadway); Brooks-Campbell (F.I. Mitchell); Browder; Browder (LaVerne Cloys); Burke (Phylis Stewart Burke Nesmith); Burton (Jane Virginia Sarnoff); Burton (Leola Moore); Byers-Bayer-Boyer (Thomas W. Turner)

  • Box 2 Folder 4
    Callison-Carter

    Family files for: Callison (Ada Dishman Morris); Campbell; Carter (Jane Alexander)

  • Box 2 Folder 5
    Clairborn, etc.

    Family files for: Clairborn-Claiborne-Clyburn (John Hogan Claiborne)

  • Box 2 Folder 6
    Clark, etc. - Cleveland

    Family files for: Clark-Young (Mrs. John K. Keisling); Cleveland (Margaret Tuttle Cleveland)

  • Box 2 Folder 7
    Cobb, etc.

    Family files for: Cobb-Crockett-Wray (Florence S. Hudson)

  • Box 2 Folder 8
    Cocke-Covington, etc.

    Family files for: Cocke; Cocke-Curtis; Cogbill-Wise; Collins (Carolyn S. Robinson); Comer (W.A. Caldwell); Cook (Lola Pascal Halter); Covington-Kavanaugh (Martha K. Graham)

  • Box 2 Folder 9
    Cowan, etc. - Cross

    Family files for: Cowan-Lenox (Mildred Cowan Siener); Craig (Fred L. Craig); Craig; Crittenden (Mrs. P.W. Hiden); Cross (Ida Mae DeKorte)

  • Box 2 Folder 10
    Crouch-Curtis

    Family files for: Crouch (Frances C. Kinneman); Crutcher (Mary F. Price); Curtis

  • Box 3 Folder 1
    Dabney-Davis, etc.

    Family files for: Dabney (Margaret C. Bridges); Damorvel-Damourvel-Demovel; Danby-Hazlewood-Goodrich; Daniel (Alma D. Weston); Davis-Day-Short (Edna Shriver Shelton); Davis-Eubank-Tucker-Humphrey

  • Box 3 Folder 2
    Day-Dudley

    Family files for: Day (Lyda Day Hart); DeJarnette; Dellinger-Caldwell-Cauldwell (Mrs. Roy C. Knopp); Dobbins-Dobyns (Mrs. Ralph Howard); Dudley

  • Box 3 Folder 3-5
    Dulin, etc.

    Family files for: Dulin-Wood-Stratham-Turner-Stephens-DePriest-Randolph-Shelton-Menefee-Starke-Sutherland-Rhoads-Morton (Florence S. Hudson and Roberta Dulin Stewart); Dulin-Duling-Dowling-Breedlove-Ayres (Roberta Dulin Stewart); Dulin-DePriest-Shelton-Jennings-Salmon (Roberta Dulin Stewart)

  • Box 3 Folder 6
    Dunn-Durham, etc.

    Family files for: Dunn (Robert J. Gregory); Durham (Ola H. Gregory); Durham (W.M. Durham); Durham-Hanks-Hanckes-Downman

  • Box 3 Folder 7
    Echols-Ellits, etc.

    Family files for: Echols; Echols-Milner-Glenn (Violet Jackson); Edmondson (Emma I. Sloan); Edwards (Mrs. Earl Strain); Edwards-Bridwell (Ronald E. Bridwell); Eidson (Robert Griffis Eidson); Elam; Elliston (Louis Farrell); Ellits-Harrison (Helen Harrison Crowe)

  • Box 3 Folder 8
    Eubank

    Family files for: Eubank

  • Box 3 Folder 9
    Farver, etc. - Fogle

    Family files for: Farver-Faber (W.E. Farver); Fletcher-Amis (Louise Morrell); Fogle (Leila Fogle)

  • Box 3 Folder 10
    Fowke, etc. - Fox, etc.

    Family files for: Fowke-Brown-Tyler (Julia T. Ryan); Fowlkes; Fox (Mrs. Harner); Fox-Ball-Dunn

  • Box 3 Folder 11
    Gains, etc. - Gatewood

    Family files for: Gains-Games (Edgar W. Davis); Gatewood (Mary Clark Tipps)

  • Box 3 Folder 12
    Gibson, etc.

    Family files for: Gibson (D.C. Williams); Gibson-Curtis-Owen-Cocke

  • Box 3 Folder 13
    Gilbert-Green, etc.

    Family files for: Gilbert (Inez H. Osborn); Gilson (Florence O'Neil Austin); Givens (Rachael Lundeen); Glenn-Jackson-Bowles (Violet Jackson); Gold-Gould (Peter D. Gold); Gooch (Marjorie Gooch); Goodrich-Willson (Adelaide P. Gay); Green-Huguely-Ryan (Rachel House)

  • Box 4 Folder 1
    Haile, etc.

    Family files for: Haile-Hale

  • Box 4 Folder 2
    Haislip-Harris

    Family files for: Haislip (Ezra Harold Haislip); Haley (Mrs. Walter Matson Cline); Hardin (Jernel A. Kieffer); Harper (Mrs. Blanton via Mildred Box); Harris (Marie Harris Key)

  • Box 4 Folder 3
    Harrison, etc. - Hays, etc.

    Family files for: Harrison-Steptoe-Wale-Lawson-Amiss-Samford-Jones (Jonathan Smith); Harrison (Eliza Harrison Duckett); Hawkins-Thompson-Turpin; Hays-Hayes-Woodhouse-Woodhus (Mrs. M.B. Biggerstaff)

  • Box 4 Folders 4-5
    Hanks, etc.

    Family files for: Hanks-Hanckes (Henrietta Horner)

  • Box 4 Folder 6
    Heppard, etc.

    Family files for: Heppard-Richards-Moss-Dowling-Duling-Washington

  • Box 4 Folder 7
    Hereford-Hodges, etc.

    Family files for: Hereford (Frank Lester Hereford); Hickman; Higginson (Mrs. Horner); Hilton-Hylton-Lane (J.L. Hylton); Hines-Pickett (Helen Stacy); Hodges-Brookes (Nell H. Howard)

  • Box 4 Folder 8
    Hodges, etc.

    Family files for: Hodges-Ward (Florence Hudson)

  • Box 4 Folder 9
    Howard, etc.

    Family files for: Howard-Gist-Garnder-Shirley-Chambers (Delia G. Gardner)

  • Box 4 Folder 10
    Howell, etc. - Hudson

    Family files for: Howell-Brown-Lewis-Willis; Hudson (William M. Sweeny)

  • Box 4 Folder 11
    Irvin

    Family files for: Irvin (Robert W. Shook)

  • Box 4 Folder 12
    Jefferson-Jeffries

    Jefferson (Mrs. H. J. Ollklaus); Jeffries

  • Box 5 Folder 1-4
    Jennings, etc.

    Family files for: Jennings (Beatrice M. Doughtie); Jennings-Doughtie (Beatrice M. Doughtie; Jennings-Fowlkes-Thompson-Withers-Keene-Hudnall (Beatrice M. Doughtie); Jennings-Latimer (Beatrice M. Doughtie)

  • Box 5 Folder 5
    Johnson-Jordan, etc.

    Family files for: Johnson (E.T. Flewellen); Johnston-Johnstone (Ross B. Johnston); Jones-Tapscott (Mrs. David Tapscott); Jordan-Banks (Rosa Elizabeth Bagby)

  • Box 5 Folder 6
    Kay-King, etc.

    Family files for: Kay (Lillard Witherspoon); Kelly-Collis-Cheeseman-Roane-Hanckes-Lee-Woodbridge; Kelly-Tucker-Hite-Davis-DeJarnette; Kerr (Mr. Reid); King-Woodson-Thomas (Mary H. Green)

  • Box 5 Folder 7
    Landrum-Lea

    Family files for: Landrum (Mrs. Frank Hasseld); Landrum-Merriman (Miriam Gordon Landrum); Landrum-Wyatt; Langhorne (Corinne L. Walker); Langsford-Weekes (Burdah W. Adams); LaRue-Larrowe-Boniface (Richard Boss Sarver); Lay-Patton (J.G. Lay); Lea (Mrs. H.H. Stallings)

  • Box 5 Folder 8
    Lee-Long, etc.

    Family files for: Lee (James M. Lee); Lemaster (Howard M. Lemaster); Lewis (F.C. Lewis); Lewis-Brooks (Alice Houts); Livingston (Mary L. Akin); Long (Bettie Head); Long-Brownfield (Fannie E. Hopkins)

  • Box 5 Folder 9
    Loving, etc.

    Family files for: Loving-Lomax-Lunsford-Alexander-Mead-White (Mrs. Epperly Cornett)

  • Box 5 Folder 10
    Luck-Lundsden, etc.

    Family files for: Luck; Lumpkin (William P. Johnson); Lundsden-Tribble (DeRue A. Curtis)

  • Box 5 Folder 11
    Matthews

    Family files for: Matthews (Mrs. John Ryburn Matthews)

  • Box 5 Folder 12
    Matthews, etc.

    Family files for: Matthews-Lyle-Day (Sylvia Welch)

  • Box 6 Folder 1
    Marker-McDowell, etc.

    Family files for: Marker (Mrs. Charles Cameron); Masoner (T.Y. Harp); Mayo-Cocke (Mary Harter); McBride (Anna Barrus); McDaniel-MacDonald (Lee A. McDaniel); McDowell-Preston

  • Box 6 Folder 2
    Menefee, etc.

    Family files for: Menefee-Wood-West-McClintock-Strickland-Owen

  • Box 6 Folder 3
    Meredith-Moles

    Family files for: Meredith (Elizabeth Curtis Meredith); Meredith (Lucy Roberts); Micou (George H.S. King); Miller (Callie M. Freeman); Moles (Fanny Moles Rodenberg)

  • Box 6 Folder 4
    Moore, etc. - Mumford

    Family files for: Moore-Ellison (Dewey Moore); Moss-Botts (Alta Botts); Moss-Dulin (Roberta Dulin Stewart); Moss-Thornbury-Wells-Wills (F. Montgomery); Motley (Felix Motlow); Moss-Glendenning (Harold Lewis Williamson); Mumford

  • Box 6 Folder 5
    Nalle-Nelson, etc.

    Family files for: Nalle; Nalle-Bailey (Dora N. Stevens); Neff (Sophia L. Bliss); Nelson (Henrietta Lambden-Turner); Nelson-Edmondson

  • Box 6 Folder 6
    Nevill, etc. - Newman

    Family files for: Nevill-Neville-Jefferson (Ivan B. Nevill); Newbill; Newman

  • Box 6 Folder 7
    Noble-Norvell, etc.

    Family files for: Noble (Carolyn Noble Orr); Noble-Calhoun (Mrs. James E. Orr); Norvell-Bullock (Edmund B. Norvell)

  • Box 6 Folder 8
    Oliver-Osborne

    Family files for: Oliver; Osborne

  • Box 6 Folder 9
    Page, etc. - Pettus, etc.

    Family files for: Page-Wyatt (Theodore Lesley); Parr (Rachael Lundeen); Parrish-Snelling-Linville-Gorman (Ida Crim Salisbury); Paul-Jones (Mrs. J.B. Brown); Payne (Dora Payne Cross); Perry (Margaret H. Cole); Pettus-Pettis-Petit (Mrs. P. Stacy)

  • Box 6 Folder 10
    Pippin-Purkins, etc.

    Family files for: Pippin (Mrs. Arthur L. King); Pitman-Pruitt (Arthur Hamilton); Powell (Fred E. Dyer); Pratt-Clements (Mrs. William P. Guerard); Priddy (J.W. Priddy); Purkins-Perkins (Proctor Perkins)

  • Box 6 Folder 11
    Reagan, etc.

    Family files for: Reagan-Harrison-Clavens-Acklin-Ackland-Black-Lee (Geneva L. Dyer)

  • Box 6 Folder 12
    Reeve

    Family files for: Reeve (Margaret Crowson)

  • Box 6 Folder 13
    Rennolds

    Family files for: Rennolds; Rennolds (Anna C. Rippier)

  • Box 7 Folder 1
    Reno, etc. - Ross, etc.

    Family files for: Reno-Moore (Virginia Clohset); Robertson-Clyburn (John H. Claiborne); Robinson-Curtis-Hawker (Mrs. Horner); Roper-Eppes (Corinne King Murphy); Ross-Gouldman (Gertrude H. Goodnight)

  • Box 7 Folder 2
    Sadler-Sheckles, etc.

    Family files for: Sadler (Mrs. M. Sadler); Sale (Lois Calvert); Savage-Williams (Wilma Little); Scott (Ethel Baldwin); Seay-Melton (Ruth Lovett Davis); Sears; Shackleford-Adams (Winifred Harris); Sheckles-Johnson-Harrison (Mrs. Eaton)

  • Box 7 Folder 3
    Shelton, etc.

    Family files for: Shelton-Greenwood-McGeehee-Pankey-Payne-Previt

  • Box 7 Folder 4
    Sherman-Sipple

    Family files for: Sherman (Allie Stewart Rogers); Shipp (Mrs. David E. Drinkard); Short (Marguerite R. Kirschman); Sims (Mrs. E.E. Coker); Sipple (Dorothy Sipple French)

  • Box 7 Folder 5
    Siron

    Family files for: Siron (Calvin J. Hutchens)

  • Box 7 Folder 6
    Skidmore-Smith, etc.

    Family files for: Skidmore (H.J. Skidmore); Skidmore (Warren Skidmore); Smith (E.T. Smith); Smith-Bowles (Velda Craven Cook); Smith-Cook (H.K. Smith, Jr.); Smith-Ford (J.R. Smith); Smith-Webb (K. Smith)

  • Box 7 Folder 7
    Snodgrass-Stokes, etc.

    Family files for: Snodgrass (Paul Brown); Sorel-Sorrel-Sorrell-Dishman (Maude E. Sorrells); Stokes-Meriwether (Mrs. Charles Hynson)

  • Box 7 Folder 8
    Stover-Summers

    Family files for: Stover (Virginia Walgreen); Stratton-Clyburn-Bennett-Chapman (Lolita Bissell); Summers (Walter M. Lynch)

  • Box 7 Folder 9
    Tabler-Thomas, etc.

    Family files for: Tabler (Thomas W. Turner); Tatum-Wright (Mrs. Herman Reynolds); Taylor (Mrs. Roy H. Cherry); Terry (Charles Roberts); Thomas-Faver (Mary Tyler Louthan)

  • Box 7 Folder 10
    Thompson-Thurmond

    Family files for: Thompson (Beatrice M. Doughtie); Thompson (Alene Thompson Granberry); Thurmond (Mrs. Fred N. Hahn)

  • Box 7 Folder 11
    Toney, etc. - Turner

    Family files for: Toney-Tucker (Mrs. Louie Kauer); Toney-Wray; Tucker (Mrs. J.V. Hardcastle); Turner-Van Meter (Thomas W. Turner); Temple (Marcella Romeo); Triplett; Turner

  • Box 8 Folder 1
    Upshaw, etc.

    Family files for: Upshaw-Coghill-Newman-Tarrant-Baylor; Upshaw-Eubank-Scott-Roffe-Royster-Bowers

  • Box 8 Folder 2
    Vaden, etc.

    Family files for: Vaden-Rowlett (Mrs. R.O. Kenley, Jr.)

  • Box 8 Folder 3
    VanMeter, etc.

    Family files for: VanMeter-Foreman-Powell-Dowling-Atwell-Toney-Alexander-Hundley-Abernathy-Williams-Carter-Rogers-Burton-Hughes

  • Box 8 Folder 4
    Waddy, etc. - Warren

    Family files for: Waddy-Pleasants; Wallis-Wallace-Childs; Warren

  • Box 8 Folder 5
    Warwick, etc.

    Family files for: Warwick-Webb-Harrison-Cock (Jonathan Kennon Smith)

  • Box 8 Folder 6
    White-Wolfenbarger

    Family files for: White (Dorothy Hedgepeth); Wilkerson-Wilkens-Wilkinson (J.W. Shifley); Wilkerson (Mrs. S.E. Wilkerson); Williams-Bush (Mrs. Wallace R. Draughon); Williams-Thomas-Richardson (Mary Harter); Winston (Mary E. Winston); Withers-Fowlkes; Wolfenbarger (J.W. Shifley)

  • Box 8 Folder 7
    Woolridge-Wyatt

    Family files for: Woolridge (Nannie Wood); Wray (Kitty Knorr); Wray-Ray-Reh (R.L. Westbrook); Wyatt

  • Box 8 Folder 8
    Zink

    Family files for: Zink (Mrs. Robert F. Woodard)

  • Box 8 Folder 9-11
    Miscellaneous research notes
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Series 2. Research resources and other files, 1944-1962 .
Boxes 8-9

Research resources include an index to marriages and an index to deeds, both from unspecified localities. Other files include correspondence regarding research into unnamed families and personal budget information kept by Wilkerson, 1944-1946.

  • Box 8 Folder 12
    Captain Alexander Fleming and Joyce, His Wife, of Westfalia, Rappahannock County, Virginia by Leonora Higginbotham Sweeny
  • Box 8 Folder 13
    Correspondence, 1947-1962
  • Box 9 Folder 1-5
    Index to deeds (unspecified locality)
  • Box 9 Folder 6
    Index to marriages, late 17th-19th centuries (unspecified locality)
  • Box 9 Folder 7
    Library addresses
  • Box 9 Folder 8
    Personal account activity, 1944-1946
  • Box 9 Folder 9
    Virginia Marriage Bonds, Richmond City, Vol. I by Anne Waller Reddy and Andrew Lewis Riffe, IV
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