A Guide to the Eugene Garland Waddell Papers, 1950-2009 Wadell, Eugene Garland, Papers, 1950-2009 51473

A Guide to the Eugene Garland Waddell Papers, 1950-2009

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51473


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
51473
Title
Eugene Garland Waddell Papers, 1950-2009
Physical Description
6 cubic feet (12 boxes)
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Eugene Garland Waddell Papers, 1950-2009. Accession 51473. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Descendants of Howard Stokes Waddell, Jr., Georgetown, South Carolina.

Biographical Information

Eugene Garland Waddell was born in Sumter, South Carolina on 12 June 1944. He is the son of Howard Stokes Waddell, Jr. (1917-2009) and Edna Erle Tallman (1918-2010). Waddell earned degrees at The College of Charleston and UCLA. He served as director of the Florence (SC) Museum and South Carolina Historical Society, an archivist at the Getty Center, head of collection development at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and as professor of art history and archivist at The College of Charleston. He currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1950-2009, of Eugene Garland Waddell (b. 1944) of Charleston, South Carolina, containing genealogical research on the Williams and Waddell families of Halifax, Pittsylvania, and Prince Edward Counties, Virginia, and Sumter County, South Carolina, notably the descendants of Elizabeth Ann Fallen (1837-1917) and her first husband Samuel Carter Williams (1832-1863) and second husband Henry Clay Waddell (1843-1915). The collection also includes research compiled by Howard Stokes Waddell, Jr. (1917-2009), and was used to write the book A Virginia Family of Williams and Waddells which was privately published in 2005.

Included in the collection are abstracts, copies, and transcriptions of Bible records, census records, church records, epitaphs, military and pension records, and vital statistics, as well as books and other published sources, clippings, correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, obituaries, photographs, and a typescript of A Virginia Family of Williams and Waddells.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1
Armistead.
Box 1 Folder 2
Bible Record.
Box 1 Folder 3
Bibliography.
Box 1 Folder 4-5
Births/Marriages/Deaths.
Box 1 Folder 6-8
"Booboo's Hundred Years" by Ruby Hodges Williams Barnes.
Box 1 Folder 9
Book Binding.
Box 12 Folder n/a
C.C.S. Shenandoah: The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell edited by James D. Horan (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1960).
Box 1 Folder 10
Cabell, James Branch - Notebooks and Correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 11
Cemetery Records of Pittsylvania County, Virginia - Volume I".
Box 1 Folder 12
The Complete Registry of Waddells in America" by Sharon Taylor.
Box 12 Folder n/a
The Conquest of Virginia: The Second Attempt by Conway Whittle Sams (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1973).
Box 12 Folder n/a
The Conquest of Virginia: The Third Attempt, 1610-1624 by Conway Whittle Sams (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1973).
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence - Miscellaneous.
Box 1 Folder 14
Correspondence - Trips to Virginia.
Box 1 Folder 15-16
Daniel, Mary Elizabeth Williams.
Box 2 Folder 1
Destroyer Waddell (Ship).
Box 2 Folder 2
Dictionary of American Biography .
Box 2 Folder 3
1850 Census of Halifax County, Virginia by Marian Dodson Chiarito.
Box 2 Folder 4
English Emigrants.
Box 2 Folder 5-6
Ewell, Mildred H.
Box 2 Folder 7-8
Ewell, Mildred H. - Correspondence.
Box 2 Folder 9-10
Ewell, Mildred H. - Miscellaneous.
Box 2 Folder 11
Fagan, Thelma Ann Waddell.
Box 3 Folder 1-2
Fallen.
Box 3 Folder 3-4
Family Genealogy.
Box 3 Folder 5
Forms.
Box 3 Folder 6
Funeral Record Book - Waddell, Howard S., Jr.
Box 3 Folder 7
Funeral Record Book - Waddell, Ola Garland.
Box 3 Folder 8-13
Garland.
Map-case 2 Drawer 11
Genalogical Charts - Oversize.
Box 4 Folder 1
"Genealogy of the Waddell and Halley Families" by Jessie (Laing) Sibbet.
Box 12 Folder n/a
The Great Doctor Waddel Pronounced Waddle: A Study of Moses Waddel, 1770-1840, As Teacher and Puritan by James Lewis MacLeod (Easley SC: Southern Historical Press, 1985).
Box 12 Folder n/a
Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives by Meredith B. Colket, Jr. and Frank E. Bridgers (Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1964).
Box 12 Folder n/a
Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives (Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1982).
Box 4 Folder 2-5
"Halifacts" - Clippings on Genealogy.
Box 4 Folder 6
Hiner, Lou.
Box 12 Folder n/a
History of Prince Edward County, Virginia by Herbert Clarence Bradshaw (Richmond: Dietz Press, 1955).
Box 4 Folder 7
Hodges.
Box 4 Folder 8
Hodges, Virginia Lee Williams.
Box 12 Folder n/a
Home Scenes and Family Sketches by Joseph Addison Waddell (Staunton VA: Stoneburner & Prufer, 1900).
Box 4 Folder 9
Home Scenes and Family Sketches by Joseph Addison Waddell (Portion).
Box 4 Folder 10
Humor in Genealogy.
Box 4 Folder 11
Indexing.
Box 4 Folder 12
Lipscomb.
Box 4 Folder 13
The Majors and Their Marriages by James Branch Cabell.
Box 12 Folder n/a
Memorials of Academic Life: Being an Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family by John N. Waddel (Richmond VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1891).
Box 4 Folder 14
Miscellaneous.
Box 4 Folder 15-18
Moss, Ella Dean Waddell.
Box 5 Folder 1-3
Moss, Ella Dean Waddell.
Box 5 Folder 4
Mysteries of the Kitchen - Parsonage Society of Mount Vernon Church, Danville VA (Cookbook).
Box 5 Folder 5
"The Name and Family of Waddell" by Charles Wilkin Waddell.
Box 5 Folder 6
Norman.
Box 5 Folder 7
Obituaries.
Box 5 Folder 8-13
Oliver, Mildred Eulalia Williams.
Box 5 Folder 14
Pankey.
Box 12 Folder n/a
The Parish Register of Saint Peter's, New Kent County, Va. From 1680-1787 (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966).
Box 12 Folder n/a
People and Places, Here and There by Rev. Daniel Taylor, Sr. (Danville VA: McCain Printing, 1981).
Box 6 Folder 1-8
Photographs.
Box 6 Folder 9
Photographs - Garland.
Box 6 Folder 10
Price-Hodges.
Box 6 Folder 11
Research Notes - Bible Records.
Box 6 Folder 12
Research Notes - Census Records.
Box 6 Folder 13
Research Notes - Church Records.
Box 6 Folder 14
Research Notes - County Records.
Box 7 Folder 1
Research Notes - Military Records.
Box 7 Folder 2
Research Notes - Miscellaneous.
Box 7 Folder 3
Research Notes - Newspapers.
Box 7 Folder 4
Scottish Waddells (Gavin Waddell).
Box 12 Folder n/a
Sign of the 76: The Fabulous Life and Times of the Union Oil Company of California by Paul R. Waddell and Robert F. Niven (Los Angeles CA: Union Oil Company of California, 1976).
Box 7 Folder 5
Smith, Sue Williams.
Box 7 Folder 6
South Boston, Virginia Historical Sketches .
Box 7 Folder 7
Sumter (SC) Cemetery Association.
Box 7 Folder 8
A Valley and its People in Montgomery County, Virginia by Roderick Lucas.
Box 12 Folder n/a
The Vestry Book of Saint Peter's, New Kent County, Va. From 1682-1758 (Richmond VA: Wm. Ellis Jones, 1905).
Box 7 Folder 9-13
A Virginia Family of Williams and Waddells by Howard Stokes Waddell, Jr. (typescript).
Box 7 Folder 14
Waddell, Armistead.
Box 7 Folder 15
Waddell Book.
Box 8 Folder 1
Waddell-Cates (John Darwin Waddell).
Box 8 Folder 2
Waddell Charts.
Box 8 Folder 3
Waddell - Coat of Arms.
Box 8 Folder 4
Waddell, Elizabeth Ann Fallen Williams.
Box 8 Folder 5
Waddell, Eugene Stamps.
Box 8 Folder 6
The Waddell Family Album and Complete New World Registry by Sharon Taylor.
Box 8 Folder 7
"Waddell Family and Connections," 1932 .
Box 8 Folder 8
The Waddell Family Heritage Book by Beatrice Bayley.
Box 8 Folder 9
"The Waddell Family: Part I - John Waddell, Immigrant" by Kenneth M. Waddell.
Box 8 Folder 10
Waddell, Flavius Archer.
Box 8 Folder 11-12
Waddell Genealogy (1932).
Box 9 Folder 1
Waddell Genealogy (1932).
Box 9 Folder 2-4
Waddell, Henry Clay.
Box 9 Folder 5
Waddell, Howard F.
Box 9 Folder 6
Waddell, Howard Sidney.
Box 9 Folder 7
Waddell, Howard Stokes Jr.
Box 9 Folder 8-12
Waddell, Howard Stokes Sr.
Box 9 Folder 13-15
Waddell, John Boyd.
Box 9 Folder 16
Waddell, Leonidas Polk.
Box 10 Folder 1
Waddell, Mary Hall - Diary, 1949 .
Box 10 Folder 2-3
Waddell - Miscellaneous Research Notes.
Box 10 Folder 4
Waddell - Unrelated.
Box 10 Folder 5
Waddell -Waddill Records.
Box 10 Folder 6
Waddell, William H. "Willie".
Box 10 Folder 7
Waddell, William Henry "Willie".
Box 10 Folder 7-12
Waddle/Waddell Families in Scotland, Ireland, and America by Alice Waddles Hagins.
Box 11 Folder 1
Will Book O 1752-1773 Halifax County Virginia by Marian Dodson Chiarito.
Box 11 Folder 2
Williams.
Box 11 Folder 3
Williams - Coat of Arms.
Box 11 Folder 4-5
Williams, Robert Clopton.
Box 11 Folder 6-8
Williams, Samuel Carter.
Box 11 Folder 9-10
Williams, Samuel Carter Jr.
Box 11 Folder 11-12
Williams, Thomas David.
Box 11 Folder 13
Williams, Virginia Lee.
Box 11 Folder 14
The World Book of Waddells .
Box 11 Folder 15
"Write Your Own History" (Class).