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Preferred Citation

Dorothy Ford Wulfeck Papers, 1955-1977. Accession 41195. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

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Biographical Information

Dorothy Ford was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 2 July 1897. She was the daughter of Dr. William Joseph Ford (1866-1933) and Jennie Lois Wilcoxson (1877-1918). She graduated from Brenau College, the College of Commerce, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. Ford married Dr. Wallace Howard Wulfeck (1900-1976) in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 24 June 1922. They were divorced. She moved to Naugatuck, Connecticut in 1942, where she was manager of the Veterans Service Center. She compiled and published numerous genealogical works. Dorothy Ford Wulfeck died on 28 January 1983, and is buried in Grove Cemetery in Naugatuck.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1955-1977, of Dorothy Ford Wulfeck (1897-1983) of Naugatuck, New Haven County, Connecticut, containing genealogical research on her ancestors, information compiled while she was editor of a genealogy column in the Virginia Gazette , and materials relating to numerous publications, including Wilcoxson and Allied Families (1958), Virginia Settlers in Missouri (1964), and Smith of Virginia (1966, 1969). There is information on the Boone, Calloway, Hansbrough, Hatton, Hawkins, Haydon, Holman, Moss, Smith, Tatum, Whitaker, Wilcoxson, and Wilson families and allied lines that settled in Culpeper, Essex, Fauquier, Gloucester, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford Counties, Virginia, and Kentucky and Missouri. The collection contains abstracts and transcriptions of census records, land patents and grants, parish registers, published sources, vital statistics, and wills, as well as correspondence with other researchers, family group sheets, genealogical charts, pedigrees, and notebooks.