A Guide to the William E. Elmore Papers, 1976-2006 #51370

A Guide to the William E. Elmore Papers, 1976-2006

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51370

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Processed by: Jim Greve

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

51370

Title

William E. Elmore Papers, 1976-2006

Physical Description

4.95 cubic feet (11 boxes).

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

William E. Elmore Papers, 1976-2006. Accession 51370. Organization records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Andrea Guice Engelhardt, Gastonia, North Carolina.

Biographical Information

William Edward Elmore was born on 8 February 1925. He is the son of Charles Edward Elmore (1899-1991) and Mary Sophronia Virginia Thomas (1903-1985). He graduated from Parks Air College, and then worked as an aeronautical engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California, and later at McDonnell Aircraft Company in St. Louis. Elmore married Betty Lou Fishback (b. 1930) in St. Louis on 6 December 1952. Elmore died 17 January 2018, and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Louis.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1976-2006, of William E. Elmore (1925-2018) of Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri, containing genealogical research on the Elmore family, most notably the descendants of Thomas Elmore (ca. 1642-1705) of New Kent and York Counties, Virginia. The material was used to compile various "working papers" and histories, including "The Trunk of an Elmore Family Tree." The collection is divided into subject files and correspondence and source files.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I. Subject Files. Series II. Correspondence and Source Files.

Series I. Subject Files .

Boxes 1-5

Extent: 5 boxes.

The subject files include notes from research visits to various courthouses in Virginia and North Carolina, chronologies and timelines of life events of various Elmore descendants, lists of correspondents and addresses, published sources, English research, and family group sheets.

Box 1 Folder 1
"The American Bible of William Elmore: The Old Testament".
Box 1 Folder 2
An-Nah-Wah-Kah.
Box 1 Folder 3
Arobria and Lincoln County NC.
Box 1 Folder 4
Background.
Box 1 Folder 5
Barbados.
Box 1 Folder 6
Bible Records - North Carolina.
Box 1 Folder 7
Browne, Thomas.
Box 1 Folder 8
Brunswick County VA.
Box 1 Folder 9
Brunswick and Lunenburg Counties, 1991 .
Box 1 Folder 10
Caswell County NC.
Box 1 Folder 11
Charlotte County, VA.
Box 1 Folder 12
Cherokee Connection.
Box 1 Folder 13-15
Chronologies/Timelines.
Box 1 Folder 16
Correspondence - Miscellaneous.
Box 1 Folder 17
Correspondents.
Box 1 Folder 18
"Descendancy of Henry Rufus Elmore and Susan Rebecca Henry".
Box 1 Folder 19
Elmer, Edward (E1345).
Box 1 Folder 20
Elmore, Benjamin ("Family Record and Biography").
Box 2 Folder 1
Elmore, John Archer (E1343).
Box 2 Folder 2
"An Elmore Odyssey" - Appendices - Southside and New Kent.
Box 2 Folder 3-4
England.
Box 2 Folder 5
Family Group Sheets - Descendants of Thomas Elmore (AAD).
Box 2 Folder 6-9
Family Group Sheets - Descendants of Peter Elmore (A-C).
Box 3 Folder 1-2
Family Group Sheets - Matthias Elmore.
Box 3 Folder 3-7
Family Group Sheets - Northern Neck.
Box 3 Folder 8
Family Group Sheets - Unknown.
Box 3 Folder 9
Family Memorials in Prose and Verse Including Selections From the Writings of Theo. J. Elmore and the History and Genealogy of the Elmore Family... .
Box 3 Folder 10
Family Trees.
Box 3 Folder 11
Featherston (E1442).
Box 3 Folder 12
File 2B.
Box 4 Folder 1
Glatton and Winwicke.
Box 4 Folder 2
Grants and Deeds - Brunswick County, VA.
Box 4 Folder n/a
Home to the Cockade City by M. Clifford Harrison.
Box 4 Folder 3-4
Huntingdonshire (H1-H11).
Box 4 Folder 5
Hunts...Histories, etc.
Box 4 Folder 6
Irish Elmores.
Box 4 Folder 7
Jefferson County TN.
Box 4 Folder 8
Little Gidding - Correspondence.
Box 4 Folder 9
Little Gidding - Start Up.
Box 4 Folder 10
Loudoun County VA (E1344).
Box 4 Folder 11
Lunenburg County VA.
Box 4 Folder 12
Martin.
Box 4 Folder 13
Miscellaneous.
Box 4 Folder 14
Names.
Box 5 Folder 1
Paper #2 - "The Elmores in Early North Carolina".
Box 5 Folder 2
Paper #3 - "Names Associated With the Early Elmores".
Box 5 Folder 3
Paper #4 - "The Rediscovery of John Elmore of Lunenburg County, Virginia".
Box 5 Folder 4
Paper #5 - "Athanasius Elmore".
Box 5 Folder 5-6
Paper #6 - "An Elmore Odyssey".
Box 5 Folder 7
Paper #7 - "The Elmores of St. Peter's Parish (VA) and Some Associated Families".
Box 5 Folder 8
Paper #8 - "Three Elmore Veterans of the Revolutionary War from Orange County NC".
Box 5 Folder 9
Paper #9 - "The Legend of the Eight Brothers: A Genealogy of an Elmore Family".
Box 5 Folder 10
Paper #10 - "Shaking the Trees in Caswell County, North Carolina: A Genealogical Study of Some Elmore Families".
Box 5 Folder 11
Paper #11 - "Some Early Elmores in the Northern Neck of Virginia".
Box 5 Folder 12
Paper #12 - "English Elmore Origins".
Box 5 Folder 13
Peidgree.
Box 5 Folder 14
St. Peter's Parish.
Box 5 Folder 15
"Some Tarpleys of Early Virginia".
Box 5 Folder 16
Virginia State Library, 1982 .
Box 5 Folder 17
"The Welsh Link: A Branch of the American Thomas Family".
Box 5 Folder 18
Williams, Jeffrey Lewis - "Lore and Legacy".
Box 5 Folder 19
William E. Elmore photograph and obituary.

Series II. Correspondence and Source Files .

Boxes 6-11

Extent: 6 boxes.

The correspondence and source files include abstracts and copies of information from census records, deeds, land grants and patents, marriage records, military records, parish registers, tax lists, and wills. There is also correspondence from other Elmore family members and researchers, including many letters from Myrtle B. Elmore (1918-1999), Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck (b. 1945), and Paula Underwood Spencer (1932-2000). Each file is consecutively numbered from 1 to 1651. The files were used to compile the chronologies and timelines and numerous "working papers" found in the subject files, as well as "The Trunk of an Elmore Family Tree" in 1992. The files numbers are also noted in the lists of correspondents found in the subject files.

Box 6 Folder 1-3
E1 - E75.
Box 6 Folder 4-6
E76 - E150.
Box 6 Folder 7-9
E151 - E225.
Box 6 Folder 10-12
E226 - E300.
Box 7 Folder 1-3
E301 - E350.
Box 7 Folder 4-6
E351 - E425.
Box 7 Folder 7-8
E426 - E500.
Box 7 Folder 9-10
E501 - E575.
Box 7 Folder 11-13
E576 - E650.
Box 8 Folder 1-3
E651 - E725.
Box 8 Folder 4-5
E726 - E800.
Box 8 Folder 6-9
E801 - E875.
Box 8 Folder 10-11
E876 - E950.
Box 9 Folder 1
E876 - E950.
Box 9 Folder 2-3
E951 - E1000.
Box 9 Folder 4-7
E1001 - E1075.
Box 9 Folder 8-10
E1076 - E1125.
Box 9 Folder 11-13
E1126 - E1200.
Box 10 Folder 1-3
E1201 - E1275.
Box 10 Folder 4-6
E1276 - E1350.
Box 10 Folder 7-10
E1351 - E1425.
Box 11 Folder 1-4
E1426 - E1500.
Box 11 Folder 5-8
E1501 - E1575.
Box 11 Folder 9-11
E1576 - E1651.