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Identification
Ms.1992.037
Title
Pauline E. Burks Family Papers 1763-1985
Quantity
9 Cubic Feet, 15 boxes, 4 oversize folders
Creator
Broaddus family (Amherst County, Va.)
Creator
Edmonds family (Amherst County, Va.)
Creator
Burks family (Amherst County, Va.)
Creator
Burks, Pauline E.
Creator
Vaughan family (Amherst County, Va.)
Creator
Taliaferro family (Amherst County, Va.)
Language
The materials in the collection are in English.
Abstract
Pauline E. Burks of Richmond, Virginia, collected genealogy materials about her husband Broaddus Vaughan Burks' family. The
papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspapers, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks,
Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. Materials focus mainly on the Vaughan and Burks families
and range from 1760s land grants to 1970s family correspondence.
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Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to research.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder],
Pauline E. Burks Family Papers, Ms1992-037, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to Special Collections in 1989, 1992, 1993 and 1994.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Pauline E. Burks Family Papers were completed in April 2008. The collection
was partially processed upon their reciept.
Pauline Englehard Burks, a Richmond, Virginia resident, researched the genealogy of her husband's (Broaddus Vaughan Burks)
family. In doing so, she amassed correspondence, account books, receipts, newspapers, and other documents about the Broaddus,
Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. In 1995 she published the book Roots, Shoots and Runners: Taliaferro, Broaddus, Burks, Vaughan and Allied Families As Seen in Their Letters, Bible Records
and Family Papers .
Alexander Hairston Burks married Ellen T. Broaddus. In 1879, their second child, Franklin "F.T." Taliaferro Burks (1849-1921),
would marry his second wife, Hortense Washington Vaughan (1867-1955), the youngest of the four children of Dr. Washington
"Wash" L. Vaughan and Francis "Fannie" Shields. Her siblings included noted doctor and surgeon Dr. George Tully Vaughan; Eugene
Neville Vaughan; and Matilda Corinne Vaughan Hoffman. F.T. and Hortense Burks had 4 children: Pearl Burks Rossner Burnley
Miles; Frank T. Burks, Jr.; Garnett M. Burks, who married architect Lorenzo Simmons Winslow; and Broaddus Vaughan Burks. Broaddus
Burks (1898-1985) married Pauline Genevieve Englehard (b. 1909) in 1931, and they had two children.
The Pauline E. Burks Family Papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspaper clippings, family Bibles,
and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia.
Papers about the families include 18th-century land and property information for Virginia and 19th-century financial papers
and ledgers as well as both personal and business correspondence. Most early materials pertain to the Broaddus, Edmonds and
Taliaferro families. More contemporary materials from the late 19th and 20th centuries are found in the Vaughan and Burks
papers. Most of the 20th-century papers are the informal correspondence of the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family, dating from
the 1930s to the 1980s.
Other materials include a set of transcriptions of record books from Amherst County, Virginia from a series called Courthouse Miniatures, and other printed materials, such as magazines and newspapers. The magazine and newspaper selection consists only of selected
issues and clippings from the periodicals, but contains interesting local news and advertisements. Also of note are a few
clothing catalogs, patterns, and sewing instructions from around 1900. Children's publications such as Youth's Companion and activity pages complement the Virgnia schoolteacher information found in the Burks and Vaughan family materials.
Plat of land sold by James F. Taliaferro to John F. Taliaferro
1859
Plat of survey for A. Taliaferro's heirs, Amherst County
1866
Plat of land near Tear-Jacket Mountain
n.d.
Deed from Richard P. Smith to Dudley Sandidge
n.d.
box-folder 1 folder: 2
John W. and E.E. Broaddus - Receipts, accounts, bills of lading, and other financial papers
1832-1859
box-folder 1 folder: 3
Correspondence to John W. and Bettie E. Broaddus
1838-1858
box-folder 1 folder: 4
Printed materials
Copied form letter from American Bible Union requesting funds
1857
Article on Andrew Broaddus in Religious Herald
Jan 13, 1921
Article on Andrew Broaddus in Religious Herald
Feb 14, 1924
Program from Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Amherst Co., Virginia
1934
Amherst County Historical and Natural Beauty Tour guide
1974
Register of General Assembly of Virginia listing [John] Broaddus, 1867-1868 Convention (photocopy)
n.d.
Edmonds Family
box-folder 1 folder: 5
Plats and surveys
c.1786-1839
Deed from John Mays and wife to James Edmonds in Amherst Co.
1789
Menos Wright survey, Amherst Co.
1793
Samuel Edmonds survey by James Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1796
James Edmonds survey by James Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1796
James Edmonds survey by James Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1800
Samuel Edmonds survey by Joseph Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1805
Indenture between Samuel Edmonds and Rowland Edmonds in Nelson Co.
1809
Plat of land conveyed from Sarah Edmonds to George Vaughan, Nelson Co.
1839
Three Edmonds plats in Amherst Co.
Taliaferro Family
oversize folder: 1
Land grants, plats and land indentures
1763-1839
Land grant, King George III to Charles Taliaferro, Albemarle Co.
1763
Indenture between Samuel Marksberry and Charles Taliaferro, Amherst Co.
1765
Land grant, King George III to Hugh McKeebs, Amherst Co.
1769
Indenture between Lunsford Lomax, Jr. to Charles Taliaferro, Amherst Co.
1770
Land grant, King George III to Joseph Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1772
Land grant, Gov. Edmund Randolph, Esq., to William Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1788
Land grant, Gov. Henry Lee, Esq., to Joseph Higginbotham, Amherst Co.
1793
Indenture between Samuel Edmonds and wife, Alice Edmonds, to Roland Edmonds, Amherst Co.
1796
Land grant, Gov. Thomas W. Randolph, Esq., to Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.
1820
Land grant, Gov. Thomas W. Randolph, Esq., to Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.
1822
Plat for Rowland Edmunds by John Hill, Nelson Co.
1836
Plat for William Edmunds by John Hill, Nelson Co.
1836
Plat for Capt. George Vaughan by John Hill, Nelson Co.
1839
box-folder 1 folder: 6
Transcriptions of oversize land grants
1763-1822
box-folder 1 folder: 7
Land indentures and plats
1795-1873
Indenture between Zacharias Taliaferro and wife Sally and Benjamin Taliaferro
1795
Plat for Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.
1802
Indenture between William Clarke and Benjamin Taliaferro, Amherst Co.
1817
Plat of land divided between Frances T. Burks and Bettie W. Burks, Amherst Co.
1873
Plat for Leonard H. Childress and Richeson Henley, Amherst County
n.d.
box-folder 1 folder: 8
Correspondence and legal papers
1837-1868
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters to Childress, Snead, Broaddus, and Taliaferro families
box-folder 1 folder: 9
Marriage proposal from Z. Drummond to Belinda Caroline Taliaferro
1847
box 11
Taliaferro family illustrated Bible, includes birth, death and marriage records
n.d.
Burks Family
box-folder 1 folder: 10
Family bills, receipts, plats
1873-1928
box-folder 1 folder: 11
Letters between Hortense W. Vaughan and F.T. Burks
1888
box-folder 1 folder: 12
Hortense Vaughan Burks and Rose Berryman Burks - Teacher contracts and educational materials
1886-1906
box-folder 1 folder: 13
Sewing booklets and patterns of Hortense Vaughan Burks
1885 - c.1905
box-folder 1 folder: 14
Letters to Frank T. Burks
1890-1912
box-folder 1 folder: 15
Letters to Hortense Vaughan Burks
1896-1933
box-folder 1 folder: 16
Deeds for Hortense Vaughan Burks
1899, 1928
box-folder 1 folder: 17
Miscellaneous family correspondence
1899-1940
box-folder 1 folder: 18
Information on cows owned by Hortense Vaughan Burks
1900-1909
box-folder 1 folder: 19
Printed materials
c.1900-1915, 1942
Scope and Contents note
Includes: Consumer Sugar Pledge from Sears, Roebuck and Co.; Blank application to Ku Klux Klan; Fabric samples from John Wanamaker
and Edward Ridley and Sons; Bank brochure with information about Panama Canal; Obituary of F.T. Burks; Refund checks from
Montgomery Ward; Newspaper clippings
box-folder 1 folder: 20
Membership in Tobacco Grower's Cooperative Association
1922-1924
box 7
Twenty-two assorted issues of the magazine "The Mayflower Log " which becomes "The Washingtonian "
1926-1929
Scope and Contents note
These issues all have drawings by Garnett Burks in them.
box 4
Pauline Englehard Burks Music History Scrapbook
c.1927
box 8
West Virginia University Memory Book and general scrapbook compiled by Pauline Englehard Burks
c.1927-1989
Scope and Contents note
Includes: Pittsburgh University and West Virginia University materials ca. 1928, newspaper clippings, buttons, admission tickets,
programs, dance cards, wedding announcements, grades. Family letters, baby shower booklet for Pauline, wedding announcements
and obituaries, greeting cards, church programs, ca.1930-1989
box-folder 1 folder: 21
Letters from Neville Rosser to Pearl Burks Miles
1945
box-folder 12 folder: 1
Genealogy notes by Pauline Burks
box-folder 12 folder: 1a
Genealogy and correspondence of Vaughan, Burks and Clayton families
c.1900-1960
box-folder 12 folder: 2
Burks family correspondence, greeting cards, receipts
1911-1947
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters from friend who's a missionary in Japan in the 1940s
box-folder 12 folder: 3
Letters to Hortense Burks
1905-1913
box-folder 12 folder: 4
Pauline Englehart's high school diploma
1926
box-folder 12 folder: 5
West Virginia University lab book with notes by Pauline Englehart
1928
box-folder 12 folder: 6
Letters to Pauline Englehart Burks
1937-1954
box-folder 12 folder: 7
Letters to Broaddus and Pauline Burks and Hortense Burks
1935-1952
box-folder 12 folder: 8
Letters to Broaddus and Pauline Burks
1950
box-folder 12 folder: 9
Hortense Burks' will
1950-1951
box-folder 12 folder: 10
Letters to Virginia Department of Highways regarding the widening of Route 29 in Amherst Co.
1955-1959
box-folder 12 folder: 11
Letters to Broaddus and Pauline Burks
1957
box-folder 12 folder: 12-13
Burks family letters
1958-1959
box-folder 13 folder: 1-12
Correspondence and greeting cards to and from the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family
1960-1967
box-folder 14 folder: 1-10
Correspondence and greeting cards to and from the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family
1968-1978
box-folder 15 folder: 1-4
Correspondence and greeting cards to and from the Broaddus and Pauline Burks family
1979-1985
box-folder 15 folder: 5
Training course diploma from Sunday School Board
1922
box-folder 15 folder: 6
Scholarship program participation certificate for Liberty Baptist College
1977-1978
box-folder 15 folder: 7
Friends of Liberty certificate
n.d.
box-folder 1 folder: 22
Burks family and friends namecards
n.d.
box-folder 1 folder: 23
Typescript copy of Letitia Preston Floyd's 1843 Memoirs [original in Draper Manuscripts at Wisconsin Historical Society]
box 6
Burks family Bible, includes birth, death and marriage records
n.d.
Vaughan Family
box-folder 1 folder: 24
Deeds, receipts, etc. of George Vaughan, Jr.
1797-1860
Scope and Contents note
Includes list of Rowland Edmonds' slaves, 1836
box-folder 1 folder: 25
Mitchell's School Atlas with notes, poems, diary entries, recipes
1849-1865
box-folder 1 folder: 26
Two account books of Washington L. Vaughan
c.1850-1875
box-folder 1 folder: 27
Washington L. Vaughan - Bills, receipts
1853-1869
box-folder 1 folder: 28
Washington L. Vaughan - Bills, receipts, notary public information
1870-1889
box-folder 1 folder: 29
Correspondence to Washington L. Vaughan
1869-1876
box-folder 2 folder: 1
School essays by George Tully Vaughan
1870-1878
box-folder 2 folder: 2
Bills and correspondence to Fannie E. Vaughan
1870-1900
box-folder 2 folder: 3
Letters from E. Neville Vaughan to mother and sister
1878-1898
box-folder 2 folder: 4
Letters from George Tully Vaughan to sister, Hortense Vaughan Burks
1887-1932
box-folder 2 folder: 5
Letters to George Tully Vaughan
1878-1943
Scope and Contents note
Includes some letters from E. Taliaferro, program for recognition program at Georgetown in 1929, and newspaper clipping about
88th birthday
oversize folder: 2
Newspapers and newspaper clippings and issues with columns about Dr. George Tully Vaughan,
1897-1929
Scope and Contents note
Includes Amherst Progress , The News [Lynchburg, VA], The Washington Post , and the Washington Times
box-folder 2 folder: 6
School essays by Hortense W. Vaughan, letters to HWV and HWV's teacher contracts
c.1880-1888
Scrapbooks and diaries compiled by Hortense W. Vaughan (Burks)
box 4
Three diaries written while in Farmville, VA
Feb. 1885 - Feb. 1887
box 4
School notebook with notes, essays, and doodles
c.1886
box 4
Black 1860s account ledger later used as scrapbook with newspaper clippings and colored advertising cards
box 4
Marbled-cover 1868 account ledger of D.S. Woodson later used as scrapbook with newspaper clippings, colored advertising cards,
and cyanotype photographs of a house, young girls, and teenage girls
box 4
Green 1877 George Tully Vaughan exercise notebook for Latin and German later used as scrapbook for newspaper clippings, mostly
about making handicrafts and some medical advice and remedies
box 4
Tan scrapbook with newspaper clippings of poetry, advice, stories and pictures, and colored advertising and name cards
1880
box 5
Green scrapbook with newspaper clippings of poetry, advice, stories, and obituaries, including some about Broaddus and Vaughan
families
c.1905
box 5
Red scrapbook with newspaper clippings and colored advertising cards
box 5
Tan scrapbook with newspaper clippings of poetry, advice, stories and pictures, and colored advertising and name cards
box-folder 2 folder: 7
Letters and teacher contract of Corinne Vaughan
1882-1897
box-folder 2 folder: 8
Letters to Hortense W. Vaughan about her marriage to F.T. Burks
1888
box-folder 2 folder: 9
Letters from George Tully Vaughan to mother, Fannie E. Vaughan
1894-1896
box-folder 2 folder: 10
Letters and clippings concerning Vaughan family
1870-1947
Scope and Contents note
Includes: Newspaper clippings about G.T. Vaughan and wife; Poetry written on printed advertisements; Correspondence; Invitation
to Christmas Soiree at Virginia Female Institute; Printed advertisement for Bank of South-Western Missouri - W.L. Vaughan
& Co.
box-folder 2 folder: 11
Letter to editor about Poindexter's Raid by Judge H.C. Shields, Hortense W. Vaughan's grandfather
1915
box-folder 2 folder: 12
Three unidentified account and memo books, possibly of Hortense Vaughan Burks
Series II. General Genealogical and Historic Papers
Copies of Transcriptions, Amherst County, Virginia - Courthouse Miniatures, Compiled by Bailey Fulton Davis
box-folder 15 folder: 8
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book A, 1761-1765, compiled
1960
box-folder 15 folder: 9
An Abstract of All A Items in Wills from 1761-1919 and A Marriages from 1801-1854, compiled
1961
box-folder 15 folder: 10
An Abstract of All Items in Will Books, 1761-1919, for the B Section, Indices for Testators, Legatees, Administrators, Bondsmen,
and All Family Names, compiled
1962
box-folder 15 folder: 11
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book B, 1761-1961, Cross-indexed as to Grantors and Grantees, compiled
1961
box-folder 15 folder: 12
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book C with Cross-Index, compiled
1963
box-folder 15 folder: 13
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book D, compiled
1963
box-folder 15 folder: 14
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book E, compiled
1963
box-folder 15 folder: 15
An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book F, Grantors Arranged in Sequence and Grantees Indexed, compiled
1963
box-folder 15 folder: 16
Impressed Property Claims found in Order Books and Some interesting Data Found in an Order Book, compiled
1963
Publications and Ephemera
box-folder 2 folder: 13
Housekeeping in Old Virginia (published volume with handwritten notes and pasted clippings)
1884
box-folder 2 folder: 14
Loose inserts from Housekeeping in Old Virginia
1890-1919, n.d.
box-folder 3 folder: 1
Ca. 30 assorted issues of The Cheerful Letter
1897-1924
box-folder 3 folder: 2
Printed religious, medical, and advertising materials
1834-1912
Scope and Contents note
Includes: Catechisms of the Wesleyan Methodists ; Our Home Above booklet; Abide with Me booklet; "Our Story Quarterly, " Vol. III, No. 1, 1906; "Primary Quarterly, " Vol. 23, No. 2, 1906; Colored chromolithograph ephemera; Advertisements for medicines; Prof. Jesse Beery information on training
horses
box-folder 3 folder: 3
Magazines and catalogs
1880-1898
Home Dressmaking booklet
1898
"Peterson's Magazine "
April 1880
"The Delineator "
April 1892
H. O'Neill and Company's Catalog
Fall and Winter 1893-1894
"The Leisure Hour Library, " No. 9
Dec. 1895
box-folder 3 folder: 4
Clothing and pattern catalogs for women and children
1908-1925
National Cloak and Suit Company, New York
1908
Bellas Hess and Company, New York, New York
Fall and Winter 1908-1909
The Mabley and Carew Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
Spring and Summer 1909
The Progressive Farmer Book of Fashions
Spring and Summer 1925
box 9
Four pages pulled from issues of "Farm and Home "
1907-1908
box 9
One copy of newsprint magazine "Comfort "
Sept. 1909
box 9
Five pages pulled from various newsprint publications
1905-1932
box 9
Four newspaper clippings about execution of Clarence Richeson
1912
box 9
One copy of newsprint magazine "The Farmer's Wife "
Jan. 1914
box 9
Issues and excerpts from "Youth's Companion"
1888-1895
box 10
Issues and excerpts from "Youth's Companion"
1896-1911
oversize folder: 3
Advertising section for quit-smoking remedy, "ho Will Free the Tobacco Slave?"
1914
box 7
Program for movie, The Wanderer
1925
box 9
Sixteen newspaper clippings about White House renovation and its architect, Lorenzo S. Winslow
1934-1987
box 9
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings
1959-1975
oversize folder: 3
Broadside advertisement for lecture and lawn party by Dr. A. Bolling, eye doctor
n.d.
Newspapers
oversize folder: 3
Lynchburg Daily News
Aug 10, 1869
oversize folder: 3
Richmond Christian Advocate (incomplete)
October 11, 1894
oversize folder: 3
Religious Herald [Richmond, VA]
October 1, 1896 and December 21, 1899
oversize folder: 3
The Amherst New Era (three incomplete issues)
1901, 1907
oversize folder: 3
The Orphanage News [Baptist Orphanage, Salem, VA]
February 1908
oversize folder: 3
The Amherst Progress
June 11, 1908; June 23, 1910
oversize folder: 3
The News [Lynchburg, VA] (incomplete)
October 15, 1913; Dec. 5, 1917
oversize folder: 3
News series, "The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Fourteen Years, " by Arthur N. Davis, in The Amherst Progress (incomplete issues)
Sept. to Nov. 1918,
oversize folder: 4
The News [Lynchburg, VA] (incomplete)
October 11 and 20, 1922
oversize folder: 4
Amherst New Era-Progress, Bicentennial Edition
October 12, 1961
oversize folder: 4
The Morgantown Post and The Dominion-News, "Festival Time" section