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Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Clayton McGahee
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Collection is open to research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Hager, Anne Papers, Ms1995-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Anne Judkins Hager papers consist of genealogy information primarily about the Preston family (the Abingdon, Virginia branch in particular) but also about many families that intermarried with the Preston line, collected primarily by Hager, her mother Anne Gray Judkins, her aunt Mary Preston Gray, and Gray's mother Elizabeth Cummings Preston Gray (1868-1956). The collection also includes historical information about Southwest Virginia (particulary those places associated with the Preston family), Abingdon, and Seven Mile Ford (the Preston family home near Marion, Virginia).
The materials in the Anne Hager Papers consist of book manuscripts and unpublished essays, newspaper clippings, land deeds, correspondence, receipts, notes, and copies of wills. Also included are books belonging to the Preston family which include a family Bible, a children's poetry book, and many others. Of particular interest is an 1832 receipt to General Francis Preston (1765-1835) for a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post, writings by Elizabeth Preston Gray about the history of her family, the 1981 nomination of the Aspenvale Cemetary in Smyth County to the National Register of Historic Places, and copies of Mary Preston Gray's book manuscript, The Family Tree (about the various family lines).
The collection is arranged according to date.
The guide to the Hager, Anne Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).