A Guide to the Martha Eheart King Papers, 1728-1990 King, Martha Eheart, Papers, 1728-1990 51741

A Guide to the Martha Eheart King Papers, 1728-1990

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Accession Number 51741

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Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

51741

Title

Martha Eheart King Papers, 1728-1990

Physical Description

4 cubic feet (10 boxes)

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are access restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Martha Eheart King Papers, 1728-1990. Accession 51741. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Harlowe, Troy.

Biographical Information

Martha Katherine Eheart was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on 17 May 1923. She was the daughter of Robert Lee Eheart (1897-1951) and Mary Marguerite Harlowe (1900-1995). She married James Edward King on 27 August 1942. They resided in Manassas, where she published two genealogical books and contributed articles to several publications, and was a certified genealogist and member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Martha Eheart King died on 6 July 2013 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Charlottesville.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1728-1990, of Martha Eheart King (1923-2013) of Warrenton, Virginia, including research files for her two books Harlow-Harlowe: Descendants of Henry Martin and Mary Elizabeth (Hawley) Harlow (1980) and "Dear Bennie": Letters of Mollie (Slusher) Garr and Alice Garr of Lafayette County, Missouri to William Benjamin Plunkett of Greene County, Virginia, 1880-1896 (1982), as well as Plunkett family papers and subject files.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

I. Harlow-Harlowe: Descendants of Henry Martin and Mary Elizabeth (Hawley) Harlow Research Files. II. "Dear Bennie": Letters of Mollie (Slusher) Garr and Alice Garr of Lafayette County, Missouri to William Benjamin Plunkett of Greene County, Virginia, 1880-1896 Research Files. III. Plunkett Family Papers. IV. Subject Files.

Contents List

Series I. Harlow-Harlowe: Descendants of Henry Martin and Mary Elizabeth (Hawley) Harlow Research Files.

Boxes 1-2

Extent: 2 boxes.

The research files contain abstracts, copies, and transcriptions of census records, chancery cases, deeds, estate administration records, military records, vital statistics, and wills. There is also correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical notes, information from published sources, questionnaires, research notes, final typescripts, and material related to the publishing, printing, and ordering of the book.

Box 1 Folder 1
Census Abtracts.
Box 1 Folder 2-4
Eheart.
Box 1 Folder 5
Eheart and Related Lines1859.
Box 1 Folder 6-7
Eheart - Wills - Orange County.
Box 1 Folder 8
Estate of Adam Ehart.
Box 1 Folder 9-11
Harlow-Harlowe.
Box 1 Folder 12-13
Harrison.
Box 2 Folder 1
Publishing and Press.
Box 2 Folder 2
Questionnaires.
Box 2 Folder 3
Thurman.
Box 2 Folder 4-5
Typescript.
Box 2 Folder 6
Wheeler, John V.
Box 2 Folder 7
Wood.

Series II. "Dear Bennie": Letters of Mollie (Slusher) Garr and Alice Garr of Lafayette County, Missouri to William Benjamin Plunkett of Greene County, Virginia, 1880-1896 Research Files.

Box 3

Extent: 1 box.

The types of material in this series is similiar to that found in Series I.

Box 3 Folder 1
Book Orders.
Box 3 Folder 2
Census.
Box 3 Folder 3
Footnotes, Captions, etc.
Box 3 Folder 4
Gaar.
Box 3 Folder 5
Genealogical Notes.
Box 3 Folder 6
Military Records.
Box 3 Folder 7
Obituaries.
Box 3 Folder 8
Published Sources.
Box 3 Folder 9
Publishing and Press.
Box 3 Folder 10
Research Notes and Correspondence.
Box 3 Folder 11
"The Roebuck Family in America" by Bette Dickson Casteel.
Box 3 Folder 12-13
Typescript.
Box 3 Folder 14
Vital Statistics.
Box 3 Folder 15
Wayland.
Box 3 Folder 16-17
Wayland-Gaar-Eheart.

Series III. Plunkett Family Papers.

Boxes 4-7

Extent: 4 boxes.

The Plunkett family papers relate to the family of William Franklin Plunkett (1822-1870) of Greene County, Virginia, and his son William Benjamin Plunkett (1849-1905), sister-in-law Tabitha Louisa Gaar (1829-1917) and niece Lizzie Dandridge Eheart (1875-1965). There are accounts and receipts, agreements and contracts, appointments and commissions, bonds and promissory notes, clippings, correspondence, deeds, estate administration records, invitations, memorandum books, photographs, and tax receipts.

Box 4 Folder 1
Account Book, 1867-1873 .
Box 4 Folder 2
Account Book, 1883-1887 .
Box 4 Folder 3
Account Book, 1893-1906 .
Box 4 Folder 4-13
Accounts and Receipts, 1838, 1840-1930 .
Box 4 Folder 14
Accounts and Receipts, undated.
Box 4 Folder 15
Accounts and Receipts - Smith, John A.
Box 5 Folder 1
Agreements and Contracts.
Box 5 Folder 2
Appointments and Commissions.
Box 5 Folder 3
Billfolds.
Box 5 Folder 4
Board of Supervisors Records.
Box 5 Folder 5-10
Bonds and Promissory Notes, 1849-1904.
Box 5 Folder 11
Clippings.
Box 5 Folder 12
Conway Bonds and Receipts.
Box 5 Folder 13
Correspondence, 1856, 1864.
Box 5 Folder 13-20
Correspondence, 1870-1939, 1950.
Box 5 Folder 21
Correspondence, undated.
Box 6 Folder 1
Deeds, 1807-1923 .
Box 6 Folder 2
Deposition, 1861 .
Box 6 Folder 3
Election Records.
Box 6 Folder 4
Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania.
Box 6 Folder 5
Estate of Ann Gaar.
Box 6 Folder 6
Estate of George Gaar.
Box 6 Folder 7
Estate of Tabitha L. Gaar.
Box 6 Folder 8
Estate of James Higdon.
Box 6 Folder 9
Estate of John Higdon.
Box 6 Folder 10
Estate of William Benjamin Plunkett.
Box 6 Folder 11
Estate of William Franklin Plunkett.
Box 6 Folder 12
Estate of James Shifflett.
Box 6 Folder 13
Eyeglass Lenses.
Box 6 Folder 14
Fee Bills.
Box 6 Folder 15
Gaar v. Thornton - Witness Attendance.
Box 6 Folder 16
Garr, John C.
Box 6 Folder 17
Gilbert Family Register.
Box 6 Folder 18
Greene Humane Society - Receipts.
Box 6 Folder 19
Hogs.
Box 6 Folder 20
Impressment Records.
Box 6 Folder 21
Indemnifying Bond.
Box 6 Folder 22
Invitations.
Box 6 Folder 23
Land Patent, 1728 .
Box 6 Folder 24
Memorandum Books.
Box 6 Folder 25
Miscellaneous.
Box 6 Folder 26
Orders for Payment or Goods.
Box 6 Folder 27
Paint Sample Catalog.
Box 6 Folder 28
Paper Cuttings.
Box 7 Folder 1-4
Photographs.
Box 7 Folder 5
Powers of Attorney.
Box 7 Folder 6
Property Exempt from Distress and Levy.
Box 7 Folder 7
Recipes.
Box 7 Folder 8
Sale Bills, unidentified.
Box 7 Folder 9
Schedule of Confederate Money.
Box 7 Folder 10
School Exercises.
Box 7 Folder 11
Shifflett v. Ham.
Box 7 Folder 12
Stewart Iron Works.
Box 7 Folder 13
Suit Papers.
Box 7 Folder 14
Survey.
Box 7 Folder 15-22
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1850-1926 .
Box 7 Folder 23
Time and Pay Book.
Box 7 Folder 24
Will of Robert G. Douglass.

Series IV. Subject Files.

Boxes 8-10

Extent: 3 boxes.

The subject files include estate papers, genealogical journals and other published sources, Huguenot Society application papers, information on Revolutionary War soliders from Prince William County, Virginia, research on the Allegre, Carr, and Failes families, proceedings of the Elizabeth McIntosh Hammill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a scrapbook, and copies of the Greene County Register newspaper.

Box 10 Folder 1
Adverisement - Chandler and Taylor (Indianapolis, IN) - Side-Cutting Mulay Saw Mill.
Box 8 Folder 1-3
Allegre.
Box 8 Folder 4
American History Documents Price List.
Box 8 Folder 5
Bennett.
Box 8 Folder 6
Breedlove.
Box 8 Folder 7-8
Carr.
Box 8 Folder 9
Carr, George (1800-1886).
Box 8 Folder 10
Carter.
Box 8 Folder 11
Cavaliers and Pioneers - Supplement - Northern Neck Grants No. 1 .
Box 8 Folder 12
Clippings.
Box 8 Folder 13
Confederate Soldiers Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira NY.
Box 8 Folder 14
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Box 8 Folder 15
Daughters of the American Revolution - Elizabeth McIntosh Hammill Chapter.
Box 8 Folder 16
Estate of John Carr, Sr.
Box 8 Folder 17
Estate of Lizzie D. Eheart.
Box 8 Folder 18
Estate of Robert Lee Eheart.
Box 8 Folder 19
Failes.
Box 8 Folder 20-21
Failes, John S.
Box 8 Folder 22
"Federal Population Censuses, 1790-1890" (NARA Catalog).
Box 8 Folder 23
"Genealogical Source Material" - Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine .
Box 8 Folder 24
"William Grayson: An Overview of the Life of One of Virginia's First United States Senators" by Marilyn Nehring.
Box 8 Folder 25
"Great Winterthur Rooms" by John H.A. Sweeney.
Box 10 Folder n/a
Greene County Register, 9 June 1905, 16 November 1906 (2 copies), 6 March and 24 July 1908 .
Box 8 Folder 26
Huguenot Society.
Box 9 Folder n/a
The Journal of Southern History, February, May, November 1978 .
Box 9 Folder 1
Louisa County Historical Magazine, 1978-1979 .
Box 9 Folder 2
Manassas VA Centennial.
Box 9 Folder n/a
The New England Quarterly, March and December 1978 .
Box 9 Folder 3
Photograph.
Box 9 Folder 4
Piedmont Hospital (Charlottesville, VA).
Box 9 Folder 5
Pioneer America Society.
Box 9 Folder 6
Polk County TX.
Box 9 Folder 7
Prince William County Revolutionary War Soldiers.
Box 9 Folder 8
Research Notes.
Box 9 Folder 9
Revolutionary War Pensions of African-Americans.
Box 10 Folder n/a
Scrapbook.
Box 9 Folder 10
"A Short History of Ohio Land Grants".
Box 9 Folder 11
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Box 9 Folder 12
United Daughters of the Confederacy -78th Annual Convention Minutes, 1973 .
Box 10 Folder n/a
United States Naval Institute 1954 Cover Pictures.
Box 9 Folder 13
Virginia Colonial Churches.
Box 9 Folder 14
Virginia Genealogical Society Bulletin, 1969 .
Box 9 Folder 15
Virginia Genealogical Society Bulletin, 1970 .