A Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department Accession Number Mss. Acc. 2006.54
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special Collections Earl Gregg Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794 USA Phone: (757) 221-3090 Fax: (757) 221-5440 Email: spcoll@wm.edu URL: http://swem.wm.edu/scrc/
Armistead, Dora Travis,
1890-1979
Armistead Family
Armistead, Cary Champion, d.
1944
Armistead, Cary Peyton,
1856-1901
Armistead, Gregory
Armistead, Maria, 1858-1897
Armistead, Meriwether Irving, d.
1945
Armistead, Rowland Cara
Conkey, Ruth
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner,
1853-1935
Language of Materials
The papers are in:
English
Abstract:
Papers from the household of Dora
Travis Armistead (1890-1979) and Rowland Cara Armistead, sisters of Williamsburg,
Virginia. Includes letters, personal, financial and business papers of Cary Peyton
Armistead (1856-1901), father of Dora and Cara, Steward of Eastern Lunatic Asylum
(now Eastern State Hospital), and prominent local Episcopal Church and school
leader; Eudora Ester Armistead (d. 1940), mother; Cary Champion Armistead (d. 1944),
brother, and lawyer for a time in Detroit, Michigan; Meriwether Irving Armistead (d.
1945), brother, and lawyer in Williamsburg; and Dora and Cara Armistead, elementary
school teachers; along with materials related to relatives in the Armistead family,
most notably Gregory Armistead, brother, who died at an early age; and Julia Maria
Armistead (1858-1897), sister of Cary Peyton. The papers pertain primarily to
Armistead family finances, health and personal affairs, the financial operation of
the asylum/hospital, and school and church issues. Also included are a number of
undated and unlabeled photographs, schoolwork of the Armistead siblings as children
and college students, letters to Cary Peyton from College of William and Mary
Presidents Benjamin S. Ewell and Lyon G. Tyler, and a long series of letters to Cary
Champion from girlfriend Ruth Conkey.
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Preferred Citation
Dora and Cara Armistead Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library,
College of William and Mary.
Processing Information
Processed by Zach Hilpert, P.J. Bell and Samantha Besora in 2006.
Papers from the household of Dora Travis Armistead (1890-1979) and Rowland Cara
Armistead, sisters of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes letters, personal, financial
and business papers of Cary Peyton Armistead (1856-1901), father of Dora and Cara,
Steward of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (now Eastern State Hospital), and prominent local
Episcopal Church and school leader; Eudora Ester Armistead (d. 1940), mother; Cary
Champion Armistead (d. 1944), brother, and lawyer for a time in Detroit, Michigan;
Meriwether Irving Armistead (d. 1945), brother, and lawyer in Williamsburg; and Dora
and Cara Armistead, elementary school teachers; along with materials related to
relatives in the Armistead family, most notably Gregory Armistead, brother, who died
at an early age; and Julia Maria Armistead (1858-1897), sister of Cary Peyton. The
papers pertain primarily to Armistead family finances, health and personal affairs,
the financial operation of the asylum/hospital, and school and church issues. Also
included are a number of undated and unlabeled photographs, schoolwork of the
Armistead siblings as children and college students, letters to Cary Peyton from
College of William and Mary Presidents Benjamin S. Ewell and Lyon G. Tyler, and a
long series of letters to Cary Champion from girlfriend Ruth Conkey.