A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 23718-a
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000 USA Phone: (804) 692-3888 (Archives Reference) Fax: (804) 692-3556 (Archives Reference) Email: archdesk@lva.virginia.gov(Archives) URL: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/
Funding:
Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a
grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Processed by:
Description Services Staff
Repository
Library of Virginia
Accession number
23718
Title
Joseph Kieffer Ruebush, Frederick
County Papers,
1788-1888
Physical Characteristics
51 leaves and 61
pages.
Collector
Joseph Kieffer
Ruebush
Physical Location
Personal papers collection,
Acc. 23718-a. Item A-1 is located in Oversize box 55.
Originals of items A-5, A-7 - A-10, A-14 - A-15 are located in
the Frederick County Court Records. Photocopies of these
documents are included here.
Joseph Kieffer Ruebush was born 26 October 1878 in Dayton,
Rockingham County, Virginia. He attended Shenandoah College
and Ohio State University's school of journalism. Ruebush
operated the Ruebush-Kieffer press in Rockingham County for
several years. As a historian, he wrote on Rockingham County
and on the Shenandoah Valley. Ruebush served as one of the
first trustees of the Rockingham County Public Library, on the
Civil War Centennial Commission, and the Shenandoah Valley
Civil War Roundtable. He was a founder of the Rockingham
Historical Society. He married Nancy Byrd Rhodes (d. 1952).
Ruebush died 25 July 1963 in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Frederick County, Virginia, papers, 1788-1888, collected by
Joseph K. Ruebush (1878-1963) of Harrisonburg, Virginia,
consisting of: abstracts, announcements, bonds, certificates,
certificates of ordination, correspondence, decrees, deeds,
judicial records, land grants, plats, receipts, reports,
surveys, warrants, and wills mainly of the Evard and Clevenger
families of Frederick County and Winchester, Virginia.
Subjects covered by the collection are: freedmen, the
Freedmen's Bureau, and Reconstruction in Alabama; the Church
of Christ at Galilee and the clergy in Frederick County,
Virginia; decedents' estates, land titles, local taxation, and
slaves in Frederick County; Frederick County overseers of the
poor and illegitimate children; and the history of Frederick
County in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also
contains papers relating to the history of the following
families: Browning, Clevenger, Evard, Gruber, McClay, Peters,
Stephens, and Wilson.
Grant. 19 acres in Frederick County to George
Holt, Sr., by Beverly Randolph, Governor of Virginia,
8 December 1788
1 p., printed form.
A-2
Letter. John Hopkins, Richmond, to John
Wickham,
5 February [17]99
1 p.
A-3
Decree. Norborne B. Beall vs. Absalom
Bainbridge, Jefferson Circuit Court, July term,
1811
2 p., copy.
A-4
Will. Henry Stephens, Frederick County, dated
10 March 1826
3 p., copy.
A-5
Deed. Jacob R. Nickling and wife Clarissa, to
Joseph Hackney, both parties of Frederick County, 116
acres in Frederick County, dated 3 November 1826 and
recorded Frederick County,
3 November 1826
4 p.
A-6
Letter. Charlotte [___], Philadelphia, to
George F. Schaeffer, New York,
21 January 1835
2 p.
A-7
Report. Overseers of the Poor, [Frederick
County?], regarding Maria Mitchell,
3 June 1835
1 p.
A-8
Warrant. Officials of Frederick County to
apprehend Robert Smith,
12 November 1839
1 p.
A-9
Bond. Sarah Orndorff and Levi Orndorff,
Frederick County, to Overseers of the Poor, Frederick
County, dated
21 November 1839
1 p.
A-10
Deed. Jacob R. Nicklin to John Pugh and Lewis
George, 123 1/4 acreas in Frederick County, dated
28(?) January 1852
1 p.
A-11
Letter. A. Lafore, Philadelphia, to Charles
Eugene Evard, Winchester,
11 March 1852
1 p.
A-12
Certificate. G. B. Graves, Commissioner of
Winchester, regarding Charles E. Evard,
12 February 1853
1 p.
A-13
Letter. [___], Winchester, to [___],
26 November 1853
1 p.
A-14
Deed. Jesse Wright and wife, Lydia, to John
Pugh and Lewis George, 123 1/4 acres in Frederick
County, dated
10 March 1853, Corporation of
Winchester
4 p.
A-15
Deed. John Pugh of Warren County, and Lewis
George and wife, Rebecca, of Frederick County, to Alfred
Clevenger, 123 1/4 acres in Frederick County, dated
25 October 1854 and recorded
Frederick County,
16 April 1855
4 p.
A-16
Will. Mary B. Wilson, Frederick County, dated
18 August 1855
4 p., copy.
A-17
Letter. [___] Evard, Winchester, to [___],
9 January 1856
1 p.
A-18
Will. Felix Roberts, Frederick County, dated
5 February 1859 and recorded
28 February 1859
4 p., copy.
A-19
Letter. [___] Bourquin, Chaux de fonds,
[France], to Felix Roberts, Winchester, Virginia,
23 April 1853
1 p.
A-20
Deed. Henry M. Brent, executor of Felix
Roberts, deceased, to James T. Clevenger, 700 acres in
Frederick County, dated
15 August 1859
4 p.
A-21
Letter. Constance G. Racine(?), Chaux de
fonds, [France], to cousin, Constance [Evard],
Winchester,
15 December 1859
2 p.
A-22
Letter. Constance G. Racine(?), Chaux de
fonds, [France], to cousin, Constance Evard, Winchester,
13(?) June 1860
4 p.
A-23
Letter. Rosine Wholey, Staunton, to [___],
6 Novembr 1860
2 p.
A-24
Letter. [___], Winchester, to aunt and uncle,
[___],
17 April 1861
2 p., unsigned.
A-25
Letter. [___] to Mrs. Constance I(?).
Clevenger, Frederick County,
[1862?]
1 p.
A-26
Letter. T(?). Wall, Walton, to Mrs. Constance
I. Clevenger, [Frederick County],
6 March [18]63
2 p.
A-27
Letter. H. M. Brent, Winchester, to James T.
Clevenger, Frederick County,
7 April 1863
1 p.
A-28
Letter. Virginia [___], Montgomery, Alabama,
to [___],
14 January [18]66
4 p.
A-29
Plats. 64 acres and 11 acres near Winchester
belonging to James Clevenger, by E. S. Baker, surveyor,
25 January 1867
2 p.
A-30
Letter. Virginia B. [___], Montgomery,
Alabama, to sister, [___],
29 January [18]67
4 p.
A-31
Letter. Virginia [___], Salem, Massachusetts,
to sister, [___],
12 January [18]68
4 p.
A-32
Letter. Virginia Browning, Vineland, New
Jersey, to sister, [___],
15 October [18]68
1 p.
A-33
Plat. 51 acres belonging to James T.
Clavenger, by D. W. Branson(?), surveyor,
7 November 1870
1 p.
A-34
Division. Land of Felix Roberts, Frederick
County, by John Moling, county surveyor,
4 March 1874
8 p.
A-35
Certificate. James T. Clevenger, ordained as
minister by the Church of Christ at Galilee,
27 November 1874
1 p.
A-36
Bond. Alfred Clevenger and James T. Clevenger
to John Stephenson,
15 December 1875
4 p.
A-37
Certificate. House and lot belonging to John
P. Bash sold at auction to O. D. Finfrock, Winchester,
by J. L. Redmon(?), auctioneer,
12 May 1888
1 p.
A-38
Letter. J. Peyton Clark to [___] Evard,
n.d.
1 p.
A-39
Plat. 565 acres known as "Hackwood,"
[Frederick County], made for F. Roberts,
n.d.
1 p.
A-40
Licenses and receipts dated
1845-1848, 1851-1854, 1856,
1873, and undated