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[Identification of item], Rockbridge Historical Society files on genealogy, WLU Coll. 0058, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
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This collection contains biographical and genealogical information on various people, primarily from in and around Rockbridge County.
This box includes folders on Lucy P. Ackerly, the Alexander family, the Anderson family, the Baker family, the Beard family, James Beatty, the Bell family, the Bogan family, the Borden family, the Bowyer family, the Brooke family, and the Brown family.
This folder contains applications to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and related documents.
This folder contains information about the family of Robert Alexander (brother of Archibald Alexander).
This folder contains photocopied indentures involving the Baker family.
This folder contains the last will and testament of Thomas Beard.
This folder contains a letter inquiring about details concerning the murder of Joseph Bell and his wife.
This folder contains a book about the history of the Bogan family, including the etymology of their name, burial locations, marriage information, and a list of births.
This folder contains information about the Borden family and an inquiry about their possible relation to Lizzie Borden, famed murder suspect.
This folder contains information on the Bowyers living in "Thorn Hill," a house outside of Lexington.
This folder contains information on the Brooke family, including a family crest and newspaper articles.
This folder contains information about the Brown family plot and vault in Woodland Cemetery, including photocopied photographs. Also enclosed is correspondence between George T. Brown, Jr. and the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning data on the Brown and Kirkham families.
This box includes folders on the Cahoon family, the Campbell family, the Carr family, the Caruthers family, the Clyce family, the Coffey family, and the Crawford family.
This folder contains census records and ancestor charts concerning the Cahoon family.
This folder contains the history of the Caruthers family, including the granting of a slave to Rebecca Caruthers, the wife of Samuel Caruthers, and the granting of slaves to the daughters and granddaughters of Captain John Caruthers.
This folder contains pamphlets about a lodge run by the Clyce family as well as correspondence between Charles McCulloch and Harold F. Clyce.
This folder contains a photocopy of a page from the Coffey family Bible.
This folder contains the history of the Crawford family, inlcuding a land grant (issued by then governor of Virginia, James Monroe) concerning their estate.
This box includes folders on the Davidson family, the Deacon family, the Dickerson family, Daniel Dod, the Dorman family, the Downing family, the Estill family, the Ewing family, the Firestone family, the Gibbs family, the Gillispie family, the Glasgow family, the Goodson family, the Gordon family, the Graham family, the Grant family, the Graybill family, the Greenlee family, and the Grigsby family.
This folder contains the history of Greenlee Davidson's extended family, including their involvement the Siege of Derry and the Civil War.
This folder contains a history of the Deacon family and a check received by William D. Deacon for Buffalo County Schools.
This folder contains two letters between a "Dr. Turner" and Jane B. Lacey concerning the Dorman family.
This folder contains family group records and an application to the Daughters of the American Revolution.
This folder contains a photocopied page from the Goodson family Bible.
This folder contains various newspaper articles concerning the Graham family.
This folder contains newsletters and a roster of members from the National Grigsby Family Society.
This box contains folders on the Hickman family, the Hileman family, the Houston family, the Hunter family, the Jackson family, the Jordan family, the Keffer family, the Kerr family, the Kessler family, the Kinnear family, the Kirkham family, the Kirkpatrick family, and the Krebs family.
This folder contains pedigree charts and family group records concerning the Hileman family.
This folder contains a student notebook containing the history of the Houston family written by H.I. Houston as well as a carte de visite photograph of the Houston family coat of arms taken by Adam Plecker, a regional traveling photographer.
This folder contains photographs of Jordan family tombstones located in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery.
Includes Duncan Lyle Kinnear's booklet, "Descendants of Andrew and Susannah Kinnear, Early Settlers of Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1770-1955," combined with some genealogical notes on the Lackey family, with index.
This box contains documents on James Lackey, the Lacy family, the Laird family, the Lee family, the Leech family, the Little family, the Lyle family, the Lynn family, the McClung family, the McClure family, the McCorkle family, the McCormick family, Thomas McCoy, Ephraim McDowell, the McFadden family, the McKee family, the McNutt family, the Mackey family, John Marshall, the Miller family, the Mills family, the Moffett family, and the Moore family.
This folder contains a history of the Little family, including their ties with the Lee family.
This folder contains a bound book of some Lyle family records and a photograph (c. 1968) of four Lyle family portraits (c. 1925).
This folder contains handwritten notes on the family of Julian and Nora McClung, family photos, a notice of military selection, enlistment record, and discharge papers for Julian McClung in World War I.
This folder contains an account of a 1785 Native American attack and the scalping of McClure children in Lincoln County, Kentucky. There is also the last will and testament of John McClure which includes the sale of a slave named Anthony conditional upon the remarriage of McClure's wife or the coming of age of his youngest child.
This folder contains newspaper clippings concerning members of the McCorkle family including Lt. Baxter McCorkle, as well as an address delivered at Louisville before the Virginia Society in Kentucky on Washington's birthday.
This folder contains information on the McKee family, including a map of Galloway (Southwestern Scotland).
This folder contains a collection of photographs of property owned by the McNutt family.
Includes a biography of John Mackey, 1703-1773.
This box contains information about the Newcomb family, the Patton family, the Paxton family, the Pendleton family, the Poage family, the Quaintance family, the Randolph family, Andrew Reid, the Reblogel family, the Reynolds and McGuire families, the Roach family, the Salling family, John Saville, the Shafer family, the Shanks family, the Sheltman family, the Smith family, the Sterrett family, the Stuart family, and the Swope family.
This folder contains information on John and Phebe Paxton, and discusses their ownership of slaves. It also contains inscriptions on various Paxton tombstones.
This folder contains a cardboard memorial placard for Nancy Poague.
Includes booklets, "Archibald Stuart of Augusta County, Virginia and his Descendants," compiled by J. A. Stuart, and "The Coxes and the Stuarts."
This folder contains an album that was a Christmas present to Mary Lou McCampbell containing handwritten poetry.
This folder contains loose photographs and a carte de visite album of various members of the Templeton, Gibbs, and Lilley families. Included in the album are carte de visite photographs of Confederate General Robert Doak Lilley.
This box contains information on the Terry family, the Todd family, the Tolley family, the Waddell family, the Walker family, the Walkup family, the Wallace family, the Wardlaw family, the Waskey family, the Weaver family, the Weir family, the Welch family, Ki Williams, the Willson/Wilson family, the Woods family, the Youel family, and Brian Young.
This folder contains letters between members of the Waddell family as well as a photograph of Benjamin Harrison Waddell.
This folder contains some family records of the Houston, Waddell, and Estill families, addressed to the Rockbridge Historical Society.
This folder contains a section of the will of John Walker.
This folder contains a photograph of the Welch house and affidavits involving H. Jackson Darst and H. Middleton Raynal.
This folder contains an application for the Delaware chapter of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and related documents regarding Ki Williams and his ancestor, John Grier.
This folder contains negatives of Wilson family genealogies.
This folder contains issues of The Youel Log, imprints published by Youel Care, Inc. concerning the Youel family.