A Guide to the Timberlake Family Papers, 1762-2009 #45491

Series I. Correspondence, 1840-1981 .

Boxes 1-7

Extent: 7 boxes.

The correspondence is divided into three groups. The first group covers the years 1840-1981. It includes letters written by John H. Timberlake to his cousin and future wife Etta Gertrude Bowe while he was teaching at Southwood Academy in Talladega, Alabama, and later while he was serving with the 4th Virginia Cavalry at Culpeper Courthouse, Brandy Station, Yorktown, Richmond, Hanover County, Martinsburg, and Spotsylvania Courthouse. Of particular note is a letter, dated 4 July 1862, in which he mentions his action as an escort and guide for General Stonewall Jackson to Cold Harbor. There are transcriptions for these letters which cover the years 1858 to 1863. Also included in this group are letters of sympathy written upon the death of John H. Timberlake (1900) and Etta Gertrude Timberlake (1911). There are also numerous letters written to Carrie Crenshaw Timberlake from friends in Germany and France. Much of the post-1900 correspondence is between Gertrude and Carrie while the latter was teaching at Lewisburg Female Institute, and contain information regarding Gertrude's activities in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, including conventions she atttended in Norfolk and San Francisco, as well as her visit to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905. There are also descriptions of trips by Gertrude to Jamestown and Nashville, Tennessee. There are numerous letters to Carrie concerning her interest in genealogy from fellow researchers, and also relating to her finances and investments. Also included in this group are letters written by Donald C. Timberlake (1915-2007) to his wife Ethel Lee (Culley) Timberlake (1916-2009), while he was serving in the Army in Italy during World War II.

The second group of letters covers the years 1871 to 1911, and includes many letters from her parents to Carrie while she was attending Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, and later teaching in Botetourt County, Virginia. The correspondence from 1896-1897 is between them while Carrie was studying overseas in Hannover, Germany and Paris, France. There are also letters written by John H. Timberlake in 1899 while he was in Hot Springs, Virginia, and Asheville, North Carolina for health reasons. The post-1900 letters are mainly between Gertrude and Carrie while the latter was teaching in Lewisburg and the Stonewall Jackson Institute in Abingdon, Virginia, as well as when she was on trips to England and Scotland and also out west at Yellowstone. There are transcriptions for some of these letters.

The third group of letters covers the years 1896 to 1898 and 1901 to 1903. It includes letters written by Carrie to her parents while she was studying in Germany, as well as visiting Italy and France. She also kept two letterbooks containing the text of these letters. These two volumes can be found in the Subject Files. The 1901-1903 correspondence are letters written to Ruby Franklin Beach (1884-1948) prior to her marriage to Maury Cullen Timberlake (1878-1935).

Box 1 Folder 1
1840 .
Box 1 Folder 2
1853 .
Box 1 Folder 3
1858 .
Box 1 Folder 4
1859 .
Box 1 Folder 5
1860 .
Box 1 Folder 6
1861 .
Box 1 Folder 7
1862 .
Box 1 Folder 8
1863 .
Box 1 Folder 9
1858-1863 (Transcriptions) .
Box 1 Folder 10
1869 .
Box 1 Folder 11
1870 .
Box 1 Folder 12
1872 .
Box 1 Folder 13
1873 .
Box 1 Folder 14
1875 .
Box 1 Folder 15
1876 .
Box 1 Folder 16
1877 .
Box 1 Folder 17
1879 .
Box 1 Folder 18
1889 .
Box 1 Folder 19
1890 .
Box 1 Folder 20
1895 .
Box 1 Folder 21
1897 .
Box 1 Folder 22
1898 .
Box 1 Folder 23
1899 .
Box 1 Folder 24
1900 .
Box 1 Folder 25-28
1900 (Sympathy Letters - Death of John H. Timberlake) .
Box 2 Folder 1
1900 (Sympathy Letters - Death of John H. Timberlake) .
Box 2 Folder 2
1900 (Resolutions - Death of John H. Timberlake) .
Box 2 Folder 3
1901 .
Box 2 Folder 4
1903 .
Box 2 Folder 5
1904 .
Box 2 Folder 6
1905 .
Box 2 Folder 7
1906 .
Box 2 Folder 8
1907 .
Box 2 Folder 9
1908 .
Box 2 Folder 10
1909 .
Box 2 Folder 11
1910 .
Box 2 Folder 12
1911 .
Box 2 Folder 13-15
1911 (Sympathy Letters - Death of Etta Gertrude Timberlake) .
Box 2 Folder 16
1913 .
Box 2 Folder 17
1914 .
Box 2 Folder 18
1915 .
Box 2 Folder 19
1916 .
Box 2 Folder 20
1917 .
Box 2 Folder 21
1918 .
Box 2 Folder 22
1919 .
Box 2 Folder 23
1920 .
Box 2 Folder 24
1921 .
Box 2 Folder 25
1922 .
Box 2 Folder 26
1923 .
Box 2 Folder 27
1924 .
Box 3 Folder 1
1925 .
Box 3 Folder 2
1926 .
Box 3 Folder 3
1927 .
Box 3 Folder 4
1928 .
Box 3 Folder 5
1929 .
Box 3 Folder 6
1931 .
Box 3 Folder 7
1932 (January-June) .
Box 3 Folder 8
1932 (July-December) .
Box 3 Folder 9
1933 .
Box 3 Folder 10
1934 .
Box 3 Folder 11
1935 (January-August) .
Box 3 Folder 12
1935 (September-December) .
Box 3 Folder 13
1936 (January-March) .
Box 3 Folder 14
1936 (April-June) .
Box 3 Folder 15
1936 (July-December) .
Box 4 Folder 1
1937 (January-June) .
Box 4 Folder 2
1937 (July) .
Box 4 Folder 3
1937 (August-December) .
Box 4 Folder 4
1938 .
Box 4 Folder 5
1941 .
Box 4 Folder 6-9
1942-1945 (Letters of Donald C. Timberlake During World War II) .
Box 4 Folder 10
1948 .
Box 4 Folder 11
1959 .
Box 4 Folder 12
1960 .
Box 4 Folder 13
1981 .
Box 4 Folder 14
n.d. .
Box 5 Folder 1
1871-1881 .
Box 5 Folder 2
1882-1883 .
Box 5 Folder 3
1886-1888 .
Box 5 Folder 4
1890-1895 .
Box 5 Folder 5
1896 .
Box 5 Folder 6
1897 .
Box 5 Folder 7
1898-1899 .
Box 5 Folder 8
1902-1904 .
Box 5 Folder 9
1905 (January-June) .
Box 5 Folder 10
1905 (July-August) .
Box 5 Folder 11
1906 (January-June) .
Box 5 Folder 12
1906 (September-December) .
Box 6 Folder 1
1907-1909 .
Box 6 Folder 2
1910 (May-August) .
Box 6 Folder 3
1910 (September-December) .
Box 6 Folder 4
1911 .
Box 7 Folder 1-7
1896-1898 (Letters from Carrie C. Timberlake While in Germany) .
Box 7 Folder 8-11
1901, 1903, n.d. (Letters to Ruby Franklin Beach) .

Series II. Subject Files, 1762-2009 .

Boxes 8-25

Extent: 18 boxes.

The subject files contain a variety of materials relating to the activities of the Timberlake family. There is information relating to the Army service of Donald C. Timberlake during World War II, autograph albums, historical information on Atlee, Atlee's Station, Cool Spring Baptist Church, and Washington-Henry Academy, Bible records, books, and botanical samples collected by Carrie C. Timberlake, and clippings. There are Civil War papers of John H. Timberlake, including a discharge, furlough, oath, and ladies' pass for Gertrude Bowe. The subject files also contain a large amount of material relating to Carrie's extensive travel, including cruise books, menus, passenger lists, programs and itineraries, tickets and passes, tourist brochures and guide books, and a travel journal. There are also deeds, diplomas, estate papers, genealogical notes on the Anderson, Bowe, Carr, Chiles, Clopton, Crenshaw, Dabney, Davis, Garland, Graves, Hill, Meredith, Shelton, Timberlake, and Tinsley families, letters of recommendation, obituaries, plats and surveys, photographs, poetry, postcards, recipe books, and scrapbooks. Finally, there is information relating to the development of the Timberlake home "Rutland" into a mixed-use residential community, and also information on the family's investments and rental properties, and also tax records. Of note are four volumes of tax books (1841, 1844, 1845, 1847) kept by Archibald Burnett Timberlake (1809-1863).

Box 8 Folder 1
Accounts and Receipts, 1831-1937 .
Box 8 Folder 2
Affidavit, 1762 .
Box 8 Folder 3
Agreement .
Box 8 Folder 4
Album of Verses, 1821-1832 .
Box 8 Folder 5
Album of Verses - Marietta Chiles Crenshaw .
Box 18
The American Gardener, Containing Ample Directions for Working a Kitchen Garden Every Month in the Year..., Georgetown, 1818.
Box 8 Folder 6-7
Army Records - Donald Crenshaw Timberlake .
Box 8 Folder 8
Atlee/Atlee's Station .
Box 8 Folder 9
Atlee History Newsletter .
Box 8 Folder 10
Autograph Album - Etta Gertrude Bowe .
Box 8 Folder 11
Autograph Album (Germany), 1898 .
Box 8 Folder 12
Barn Sketch .
Box 9 Folder 1
Battle of Atlee Station .
Box 9 Folder 2
Belhaven College .
Box 9 Folder 3
Bible Records .
Box 9 Folder 4
Birnie Statements, 1935-1936 .
Box 9 Folder 5
Book Catalogues .
Box 9 Folder 6-8
Botanical Samples .
Box 9 Folder 9
Bowe Collections at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University .
Box 9 Folder 10
Bowe vs. Haller - Copy of Judgment, 1808 .
Box 9 Folder 11
C & O Railroad .
Box 22
Card Index (Hanover County History) by David L. Timberlake .
Box 9 Folder 12
Census - Hanover County .
Box 25
Certificates .
Box 9 Folder 13
Chesapeake and Ohio Land Improvement Company .
Box 9 Folder 14
Children's Language Books and Primers .
Box 9 Folder 15
Clippings .
Box 9 Folder 16
Coal Mine Property - Deed, 1867 .
Box 9 Folder 17
Confederate Currency .
Box 9 Folder 18
Cool Spring Baptist Church .
Box 9 Folder 19
Cruise Books .
Box 10 Folder 1
Cruise Menus and Passenger Lists .
Box 10 Folder 2
Cruise Programs and Itineraries .
Box 10 Folder 3
Cruise Tickets and Passes .
Box 10 Folder 4
D.A.R./S.A.R. .
Box 10 Folder 5-8
Davis, Mary Moore (Kewpies) .
Box 10 Folder 9
Deeds .
Box 10 Folder 10
Deeds to be Researched .
Box 10 Folder 11
Descendants of Benjamin Timberlake .
Box 25
Diplomas .
Box 18
Discours sur l'histoire Universelle by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet .
Box 10 Folder 12
Electric Bills .
Box 10 Folder 13-14
English, Sara John .
Box 11 Folder 1-3
English, Sara John .
Box 11 Folder 4
Engravings .
Box 21
Ephemera .
Box 11 Folder 5
Estate of Lelia T. Beach .
Box 11 Folder 6
Estate of John Bowe .
Box 11 Folder 7
Estate of Nathaniel Bowe .
Box 11 Folder 8
Estate of Nathaniel Fleming Bowe .
Box 11 Folder 9
Estate of William Bowe .
Box 11 Folder 10
Estate of Carrie Crenshaw Timberlake .
Box 11 Folder 11
Estate of John Henry Timberlake .
Box 11 Folder 12
Estate of Ruby Franklin West .
Box 18
Expense Ledger, 1895-1897 .
Box 11 Folder 13
Foreign Currency .
Box 25
Foreign Travel Document (unidentified) .
Box 11 Folder 14
Funeral Programs, 2007, 2009 .
Box 11 Folder 15
Furlough, 1864 .
Box 25
Genealogical Charts .
Box 11 Folder 16
Genealogical Notes .
Box 11 Folder 17
Genealogical Notes - Anderson .
Box 11 Folder 18
Genealogical Notes - Bowe .
Box 11 Folder 19
Genealogical Notes - Bowes .
Box 11 Folder 20
Genealogical Notes - Bowie .
Box 11 Folder 21
Genealogical Notes - Carr .
Box 11 Folder 22
Genealogical Notes - Chiles .
Box 11 Folder 23
Genealogical Notes - Clopton .
Box 11 Folder 24
Genealogical Notes - Crenshaw .
Box 12 Folder 1
Genealogical Notes - Dabney .
Box 12 Folder 2
Genealogical Notes - Davis .
Box 12 Folder 3
Genealogical Notes - Garland .
Box 12 Folder 4
Genealogical Notes - Graves .
Box 12 Folder 5
Genealogical Notes - Hill .
Box 12 Folder 6
Genealogical Notes - Meredith .
Box 12 Folder 7
Genealogical Notes - Shelton .
Box 12 Folder 8-10
Genealogical Notes - Timberlake .
Box 12 Folder 11
Genealogical Notes - Tinsley .
Box 12 Folder 12
Greeting Cards .
Box 12 Folder 13
Guardian's Accounts - Hector Bowe .
Box 25
Historical Hanover County, Virginia, 1720-1926 .
Box 12 Folder 14
Hotel Bills, 1929 .
Box 12 Folder 15
Hotel Stationary .
Box 12 Folder 16
Insurance .
Box 12 Folder 17
Insurance - 2706 Fourth Avenue, 1937 .
Box 12 Folder 18
Inventories, 1938 .
Box 12 Folder 19
Iran (Donald H.C. Timberlake, United States Peace Corps), 1967-1969 .
Box 12 Folder 20
Jackson, Stonewall .
Box 12 Folder 21
Land Grants .
Box 12 Folder 22
Robert E. Lee Property - Lumberton, NC, 1934-1937 .
Box 18
Letterbooks of Carrie Crenshaw Timberlake (2 vols.), 1896-1898 .
Box 12 Folder 23
Letters of Recommendation (Carrie C. Timberlake) .
Box 12 Folder 34
Letters of Recommendation (John H. Timberlake) .
Box 25
Marriage Certificate (Timberlake/Culley), 1938 .
Box 13 Folder 1
Mechanicsville .
Box 13 Folder 2
Military Discharge Certificate, 1863 .
Box 13 Folder 3
Military Pass (Ladies Pass), 1864 .
Box 13 Folder 4
Militia Appointments, 1797, 1820 .
Box 13 Folder 5
Militia List, 1810 .
Box 13 Folder 6
Miscellaneous .
Box 25
Newspapers - Portions of a Japanese Newspaper, "Christian Observer" (1881), "Richmond Christian Advocate" (1887), and "Richmond Times-Dispatch" (1997) .
Box 13 Folder 7
Nolting First Mortgage Corporation - Bond, 1933-1937 .
Box 18
Novum Testamentum Domini nostri Jesu Christi: Inteprete Theodoro Beza, London, 1788 .
Box 13 Folder 8
Oath of Allegiance .
Box 13 Folder 9
Obituaries .
Box 13 Folder 10
Order for Oats, 1787 .
Box 25
Passport - Carrie Crenshaw Timberlake, 1896 .
Box 13 Folder 11
Passport - David Leslie Timberlake, 1937 .
Box 13 Folder 12
Peter Rabbit .
Box 23
Photograph Albums (empty) .
Box 13 Folder 13
Photographic Glimpses of New Orleans, 1902 .
Box 24
Photographs .
Box 25
Photographs - "Magnolia" (Nathaniel Fleming Bowe Residence, Richmond) and Donald H.C. and Betty Bowe Timberlake .
Box 23
Picture Frame .
Box 13 Folder 14
The Pilgrim Scrip, March 1928 .
Box 13 Folder 15
Plats and Surveys .
Box 13 Folder 16
Playbill, 1895 .
Box 13 Folder 17
Poetry and Music .
Box 25
Portraits - John H. Timberlake and Etta Gertrude Timberlake .
Box 23
Postcard Albums (empty) .
Box 22
Postcards .
Box 13 Folder 18
Programs .
Box 13 Folder 19
Promissory Notes .
Box 13 Folder 20
Puller, May T. .
Box 13 Folder 21
Ragland Castle .
Box 13 Folder 22
Recipe Book .
Box 14 Folder 1
Recipe Book (Etta Gertrude Timberlake) .
Box 14 Folder 2
Redd, Martha W. - Loan Papers, 1928-1935 .
Box 14 Folder 3
Rent Accounts - 2706 Fourth Avenue, 1936-1937 .
Box 14 Folder 4-5
Repairs - 2706 Fourth Avenue, 1935-1937 .
Box 14 Folder 6
Report Cards .
Box 14 Folder 7
Richmond College .
Box 14 Folder 8
Robertson, James I. - Virginia Tech .
Box 18
The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue: or a Plain and Easy Introduction to Latin Grammar...," by William Mann, A.M., Philadelphia, 1844 .
Box 14 Folder 9
"Rutland" Development, 2008 .
Box 25
"Rutland" Development - Clubhouse Elevations, 2006 .
Map-case 2 Drawer 12
"Rutland" Development - Plats and Surveys .
Box 14 Folder 10
"Rutland" Graveyard (Olin C. Nolley Sketch) .
Box 14 Folder 11
"Rutland" - Removal of Remains in Cemetery, 2005 .
Box 14 Folder 12
Scrapbook .
Box 23
Scrapbook (Illustrations and Poetry) .
Box 14 Folder 13
Silhouette - Nathaniel Fleming Bowe .
Box 14 Folder 14
Silhouettes - Alice Bowe Colonna and Carrie C. Timberlake .
Box 14 Folder 15
Speech - Timberlake Portraits Presentation .
Box 14 Folder 16
Speech - United Daughters of the Confederacy .
Box 14 Folder 17
Southwood Select School (Talladega, Ala.) .
Box 14 Folder 18
Stonewall Jackson College (Abingdon, Va.) .
Box 20
Tax Books - Hanover County (4 vols.), 1841, 1844, 1845, 1847 .
Box 14 Folder 19
Tax Records from Old Tax Books .
Box 14 Folder 20
Tax Returns, 1931-1937 .
Box 14 Folder 21
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1865-1869 .
Box 14 Folder 22
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1870-1879 .
Box 14 Folder 23
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1880-1889 .
Box 14 Folder 24
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1890-1899 .
Box 15 Folder 1
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1900-1909 .
Box 15 Folder 2
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1910-1919 .
Box 15 Folder 3
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1920-1929 .
Box 15 Folder 4
Tax Tickets and Receipts, 1930-1939 .
Box 15 Folder 5
Tax Tickets and Receipts - Boyd Street, 1914-1922 .
Box 15 Folder 6
Tax Tickets and Receipts - "Meredith's" and "Magnolia," 1898-1913 .
Box 15 Folder 7
Tax Tickets and Receipts - "Rutland" - Carrie C. Timberlake, 1912-1936 .
Box 15 Folder 8
Teacher's Certificate, 1958 .
Box 15 Folder 9
Thomson, Lelia C. T. .
Box 15 Folder 10
Timberlake, Archibald Burnett - Biographical Information .
Box 15 Folder 11
Timberlake, David L. - Drawings .
Box 19
Timberlake Family Bible .
Box 15 Folder 12
Timberlakes of Port Royal .
Box 15 Folder 13
Tourist Information - Ceylon .
Box 15 Folder 14
Tourist Information - China .
Box 15 Folder 15
Tourist Information - Cuba .
Box 15 Folder 16
Tourist Information - Egypt .
Box 15 Folder 17-18
Tourist Information - Germany .
Box 15 Folder 19-20
Tourist Information - Great Britain .
Box 16 Folder 1
Tourist Information - Hawaii .
Box 16 Folder 2
Tourist Information - India .
Box 16 Folder 3
Tourist Information - Italy .
Box 16 Folder 4-5
Tourist Information - Japan .
Box 16 Folder 6
Tourist Information - Korea .
Box 16 Folder 7
Tourist Information - Panama Canal .
Box 16 Folder 8
Tourist Information - Philippines .
Box 16 Folder 9
Tourist Information - Switzerland .
Box 16 Folder 10-11
Tourist Information - United States .
Box 17 Folder 1
Tourist Information - United States .
Box 17 Folder 2
Travel Diary .
Box 17 Folder 3
A True and Strange Discourse on the Travailes of Two English Pilgrims by Henry Timberlake, London, 1620 .
Box 17 Folder 4
Typing Expenses .
Box 17 Folder 5
United Daughters of the Confederacy .
Box 17 Folder 6
Washington-Henry Academy .
Box 17 Folder 7
Washington-Henry Academy - School Record, 1879-1882 .
Box 17 Folder 8
Washington-Henry Academy - Trustee's Minute Book, 1911-1915 .
Box 25
Washington-Henry Gazette, 1933-1935 .
Box 17 Folder 9
Wedding Invitation (Timberlake/Bowe), 1863 .
Box 17 Folder 10
Wesleyan Female Institute (Staunton, Va.) .
Box 17 Folder 11
"When I Was a Boy in Eastern Hanover County During the 1920's and Early 1930's" by Donald C. Timberlake .
Box 17 Folder 12
Will of Elizabeth Ann Bowe .
Box 17 Folder 13
Will of Nathaniel F. Bowe .
Box 17 Folder 14
Will of Mary F. Boyd .
Box 17 Folder 15
Will of Charles Graves (portion) .
Box 17 Folder 16
Will of Archibald Burnett Timberlake .
Box 17 Folder 17
Will of Carrie Crenshaw Timberlake .
Box 17 Folder 18
Will of David Timberlake .
Box 17 Folder 19
Will of Francis Timberlake .
Box 17 Folder 20
Will of W.W. Timberlake .
Box 17 Folder 21
Will of Mary Washington .
Box 17 Folder 22
Will of Ruby Franklin West .
Box 25
World's Fair Scenes, 1894 .

A Guide to the Timberlake Family Papers, 1762-2009

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 45491

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