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Martha Eheart King Papers, 1728-1990. Accession 51741. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Harlowe, Troy.
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.
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.
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.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.
The types of material in this series is similiar to that found in Series I.
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.
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.