A Guide to the Papers of Ruth G. Hale 1970-2001
A Collection in
Roanoke Public Libraries
Accession Number 2001.1.26
Roanoke Public Libraries
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Ruth G. Hale, Accession #2001.1.26, Roanoke Public Libraries, Roanoke , VA
Acquisition Information
Donated by Charles W. Hale, Jr.
Biographical Note
Ruth Gerda Hale was born April 26, 1926 in Bernstadt, Schlesien (Silesia), which then was part of Germany. Her parents were Paul Robert and Meta Gertrud Mcke [sic] Gottschalk. After World War II the family moved to Pocking, West Germany as refugees. Here Ruth met Charles W. Hale, Jr., who was stationed in Pocking with the U.S. Army. They married on February 14, 1948, and Ruth eventually emigrated with her husband to his home in Waiteville in Monroe County , WV. They continued to move frequently, living in West Point, NY, Colorado Springs, CO, Ft. Eustis, Virginia, Japan and Germany before settling in Cloverdale, Botetourt County , VA. Mrs. Hale had three daughters: Irene Joy (Remines), Heidi Marina (Turpin), and Letha Mae Gerda Hale. Genealogy was Mrs. Hale’s passion. She began keeping family records in the mid-1970s, researching her husband’s family connections and the families of whomever asked her for help. Her work focused on Craig County and surrounding areas. In addition to doing local research, she used the Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Libraries and other libraries and archives. Mrs. Hale was known especially for travelling around to meet with the family members of those she was researching; according to her daughter Heidi, her presence at family reunions in the area soon became both welcome and expected. The materials in this collection clearly show the results of her personal approach. Her work was also a family effort. Mrs. Hale loved hiking, and together she and her husband Charles would go on hikes to record remote cemeteries. Her daughter Heidi also helped, typing the manuscripts for Mrs. Hale’s publications. She published three volumes of Craig County , Virginia marriages (1851-1881, 1882-1910 and 1911-1938) and volumes of the 1920 Census for Craig County and Roanoke County , VA. Ruth Hale lived in Cloverdale at the time of her death, March 25, 2001. She is buried in New Zion Union Church Cemetery, Waiteville, WV.
Scope and Content
This is a genealogical collection focusing on the Hale/Ahl/All families and connecting families. Many other families of Craig County , Virginia and surrounding areas are also included. Materials in the collection include notes, correspondence, news clippings and copies of official records (births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries, funeral homes, military pensions etc.) along with photographs: both originals and copies and photo negatives. Date range for the collection: the collection was created between ca. 1970 and 2001; materials included in the collection cover the 16th-20th centuries, with coverage varying for each family name. Names and locations will turn up multiple times throughout the records. Researchers interested in a certain family or locality should make sure to go through the name files as well as the cemetery files and files organized geographically by county or locality. Geographical designations are made at various levels: county , city or town, and cemetery names. Many of the family records include photographs; there are also photographs of buildings and local historical landmarks. Folders with photographs are marked. This includes original photographs as well as the photocopies Mrs. Hale often made of original family photographs. The cemetery records in the collections often include photographs of markers, maps and Mrs. Hale’s handwritten notes; they may also include obituaries. Mrs. Hale recycled paper. Occasionally a small article of importance will be mounted on a larger piece of which the text is not relevant. Box 25 contains the materials from a box of loose materials including a number of unlabeled antique photographs; it also contains Mrs. Hale’s spiral notebooks. Box 26, the last box in the collection, contains the materials from nine notebooks Mrs. Hale had marked “General.�
Arrangement
Boxes 1-14 are organized by family name, arranged alphabetically; boxes 15-29 contain histories, cemetery and other records arranged loosely by geographical location.
Contents List
- Folder 1
Alls Family - James Aul, Sr. undated
- Folder 2
Alls Family - Josephus All undated
- Folder 3
Alls Family - James Alls, Jr. undated
- Folder 4
Alls Family - William C. Alls undated
- Folder 5
Alls Family - Jacob and Elizabeth Pace undated
- Folder 6
Alls Family - Nicholas J. Alls undated
- Folder 7
Alls Family - Alls/Hipes undated
- Folder 8
Alls Family - Benjamin B. Alls undated
- Folder 9
Alls Family - Harvey J. Alls undated
- Folder 10
Alls Family - Paris Wade Alls undated
- Folder 11
All, Alls, Ahl, Awl Family - Census Records undated
- Folder 12
All, Alls, Ahl, Awl Family - Marriages undated
- Folder 13
All, Alls, Ahl, Aul, Awl Family - Barton Photographs and Family Reunions undated
- Folder 14
All, Alls, Ahl, Aul, Awl Family - Births, Cemeteries, Deaths, Marriages and Photographs undated
- Folder 15
Anderson, McNeer, Dillon, Neel Family - Cememteries, Census Records, Correspondence, Deaths undated
- Folder 16
Anderson, McNeer, Dillon, Neel Family undated
- Folder 17
Anderson Family - Census Records, Marriages and Wills undated
- Folder 1
Anderson and All Familes - Bradley undated
- Folder 2
Anderson and All Families - Tucker undated
- Folder 3
Anderson and All Familes - Nicewander undated
- Folder 4
Anderson and All Families - Caldwell and Hogan undated
- Folder 5
Anderson and All Familes - Ambrose Myers undated
- Folder 6
Anderson and All Families - Kinzer undated
- Folder 7
Anderson and All Families - Martin undated
- Folder 8
Anderson and All Families - Anderson undated
- Folder 9
Anderson and All Families - Gorman and Ratliff undated
- Folder 10
Anderson and All Families - George Keffer undated
- Folder 11
Anderson and All Families - Wright and Keffer undated
- Folder 12
Anderson and All Families - Rock and Doss undated
- Folder 13
Anderson and All Families - Drewry undated
- Folder 14
Anderson and All Families - Jonathan Givens undated
- Folder 15
Anderson and All Families - Lipes and Meyers undated
- Folder 16
Anderson and All Families - Myers and Elmore undated
- Folder 17
Anderson and All Families - Looney and Dudding undated
- Folder 18
Anderson and All Families - Eakin and Bean undated
- Folder 19
Ayers Family - History and Reunions undated
- Folder 20
Bean Family - James Franklin Bean undated
- Folder 21
Bean Family - Sadie Francis Bean undated
- Folder 22
Bean Family - Census Records and Marriages undated
- Folder 23
Bean Family - Wells and McDonald undated
- Folder 24
Bean Family - McDonald undated
- Folder 25
Bean Family - Barton undated
- Folder 26
Bean Family - Wells undated
- Folder 27
Bean Family - Marriages undated
- Folder 1
Beard and Brand Families - Bean undated
- Folder 2
Beard and Brand Families undated
- Folder 3
Beard and Brand Families - Hunter undated
- Folder 4
Beard and Huffman Families - Lark undated
- Folder 5
Beard and Huffman Families - Beard undated
- Folder 6
Beard and Huffman Families - Huffman undated
- Folder 7
- Folder 8
Beard and Huffman Families - Broce undated
- Folder 9
Bennett, McDonald and Shelor Families undated
- Folder 10
Book Family - Correspondence undated
- Folder 11
Bowles Family undated
- Folder 12
Bowles Family - Shaver undated
- Folder 13
Bowles Family - Hale undated
- Folder 14
Bowles Family undated
- Folder 15
Bowles Family - Burkette undated
- Folder 16
Bowles Family - Sites undated
- Folder 17
Brillhart Family - Census Records and Deaths undated
- Folder 18
Britts Family undated
- Folder 19
Britts Family - Wright undated
- Folder 1-2
Buck Family undated
- Folder 3
Buck Family n- Scanland undated
- Folder 4
Buck Family - Census Records undated
- Folder 5
Caldwell Family undated
- Folder 6
Caldwell Family - Huffman undated
- Folder 7-8
Camper Family undated
- Folder 9
Camper Family - Cooper and Echols undated
- Folder 10
Camper Family - Hurt undated
- Folder 1
Crowder Family - Huffman and McDonald undated
- Folder 2
Custer Family undated
- Folder 3
Custer Family - Sirry undated
- Folder 4
Custer Family - Brillhart undated
- Folder 5
Custer Family - Deeds and Henderson undated
- Folder 6
Custer Family - Eakin and Barber undated
- Folder 7
Custer Family - Crawford undated
- Folder 8
Custer Family - Eakin undated
- Folder 9
Custer Family - Grisso undated
- Folder 10
Custer Family - Related to all families undated
- Folder 11
Dabney, Shrewsberry, Sinkler and Sinclair Families undated
- Folder 12
Davis Family - Related to all families undated
- Folder 13
Davis Family undated
- Folder 14
Davis Family - Cundiff undated
- Folder 15
Davis Family - Snead undated
- Folder 16
Davis Family - Echols undated
- Folder 17
Davis Family - Kirby undated
- Folder 1
Eckiss Family undated
- Folder 2
Eckiss Family - Shelor undated
- Folder 3
Eckiss Family - Broce and Shelor undated
- Folder 4
- Folder 5
Evans Family undated
- Folder 6
Evans Family - Holbrook undated
- Folder 7
Evans Family - Litton undated
- Folder 8
Evans Family - McReynolds undated
- Folder 9
Evans Family - Robinett undated
- Folder 10
Ferrell Family undated
- Folder 11
Francisco Family undated
- Folder 12
Furrow Family undated
- Folder 13
Furrow Family - Larch undated
- Folder 14
Furrow Family - Craft undated
- Folder 15
Furrow Family - Francisco undated
- Folder 16
Furrow Family - Morgan undated
- Folder 17
Evans Family - Documents for all families undated
- Folder 18
Galloway Family undated
- Folder 19
Galloway Family - Craig and Walton undated
- Folder 20
Galloway Family - Beard and Wright undated
- Folder 21
Galloway Family - Stiff undated
- Folder 22
Galloway Family - Book undated
- Folder 23
Galloway Family - Taylor and Johnson undated
- Folder 24
Galloway Family - Graham Kirby undated
- Folder 25
Galloway Family - McKenzie undated
- Folder 26
Galloway Family - Sink and Kinzer undated
- Folder 1
Hale Family - Hall, Brickey and Ledgerwood undated
- Folder 2
Hale Family undated
- Folder 3
Hale Family - Brickey, Radford and Porterfield undated
- Folder 4
Hall Family - Hale undated
- Folder 5
Hall Family - Brickey undated
- Folder 6
Hall Family - Wright and Sirry undated
- Folder 7
Hall Family - Garman undated
- Folder 8
Hall Family - Craft undated
- Folder 9
Hall Family - Ledgerwood undated
- Folder 10
Hall Family undated
- Folder 11
Hall Family - All families undated
- Folder 12
Hardwick Family undated
- Folder 13
Harless Family undated
- Folder 14
Harless Family - Preiss, Price and Grissom undated
- Folder 15
Harless Family - Cemetery undated
- Folder 16
Obituaries and Anniversaries undated
- Folder 1
Haymaker Family - Anderson and Woolwine undated
- Folder 2
Helton Family - Hilton, Hylton undated
- Folder 3
Hiatt Family - Shockley undated
- Folder 4
Hinchee Family - Neel and Duncan undated
- Folder 5
Huffman Family - Bush undated
- Folder 6
Huffman Family - Carper undated
- Folder 7
Huffman Family - Carper, Luster and Bush undated
- Folder 8
Huffman Family - Anderson, Simpson and Henderson undated
- Folder 9
Huffman Family - Marriages undated
- Folder 10
Huffman Family - Greenway, Thomas and Griggs undated
- Folder 11
Huffman Family - Photographs and Miscellaneous Documents undated
- Folder 12
Huffman Family - Hutchison, Mills and Lafon undated
- Folder 13
Hutchinson Family - Miscellaneous Documents undated
- Folder 14
Janelle, Jenelle, Journell and Turner Families undated
- Folder 1
Perdue, Richardson, Martin, Philpott and Ryan Families undated
- Folder 2
Karr Family - Harmon, Broce and Linkous undated
- Folder 3
Keister Family undated
- Folder 4
Killian Family undated
- Folder 5
Kinder Family undated
- Folder 6
Lafon Family - Correspondence undated
- Folder 7
Layman Family - Beard undated
- Folder 8
Layman Family undated
- Folder 9
Layman Family - Beard undated
- Folder 10
Lee Family undated
- Folder 1
Pike Family - Vaughn undated
- Folder 2
Pike Family - Bennett undated
- Folder 3
Pike Family - Austin and Poole undated
- Folder 4
Pike Family - Stoneman undated
- Folder 5
Price Family - Preiss and Killman undated
- Folder 6
Price Family undated
- Folder 7
Price Family - Hoffman undated
- Folder 8
Price Family undated
- Folder 9
Remines Family - Sawyers, Keys, Slemp, Fry and Testerman undated
- Folder 10
- Folder 11
Rock Family - Doss, Morgan and Meyers undated
- Folder 12
Roller Family undated
- Folder 13
Schlosser Family - Slusher and Slusser undated
- Folder 1
Schlosser Family - Slusher and Slusser undated
- Folder 2
Schlosser Family undated
- Folder 3
Slusher Family - Schlosser, Simmons, Rucker and Slusser undated
- Folder 4
Skaggs Family undated
- Folder 5
Slusher Family - Census Records, Marriages and Deaths undated
- Folder 6
Sessler Family undated
- Folder 7
Smith Family undated
- Folder 8
Smith Family - Census Records undated
- Folder 1
Smith Family - Wills undated
- Folder 2
Smith Family undated
- Folder 3
Spangler Family - Young undated
- Folder 4
Sweeney Family - All, Hall, Jewell, Holloway, and Songer - Births, Deaths, Marriages and Photographs undated
- Folder 5
Turpin Family undated
- Folder 6
Webb Family undated
- Folder 7
Wright Family - William Greenbury Family Bible undated
- Folder 8
Wright Family - "The Wright People" undated
- Folder 1
- Folder 2
- Folder 3
- Folder 4
- Folder 5
- Folder 6
- Folder 7
- Folder 8
- Folder 9
Obituaries undated
- Folder 10
- Folder 11
- Folder 12
- Folder 13
- Folder 14
- Folder 15
- Folder 16
- Folder 17
- Folder 18
- Folder 19
- Folder 20
- Folder 21
- Folder 22
- Folder 23
- Folder 24
- Folder 25
- Folder 26
- Folder 27
- Folder 28
- Folder 29
- Folder 30
- Folder 31
- Folder 32
- Folder 33
- Folder 34
- Folder 35
- Folder 36
- Folder 37
- Folder 38
- Folder 39
- Folder 40
- Folder 41
- Folder 42
- Folder 43
- Folder 44
- Folder 45
- Folder 46
- Folder 47
- Folder 48
- Folder 49
- Folder 50
- Folder 51
- Folder 52
- Folder 53
- Folder 54
- Folder 55
- Folder 56
- Folder 57
- Folder 58
- Folder 59
- Folder 60
- Folder 61
- Folder 62
- Folder 63
- Folder 64
- Folder 1
- Folder 2
- Folder 3
- Folder 4
- Folder 5
- Folder 6
- Folder 7
- Folder 8
- Folder 9
- Folder 10
- Folder 11
- Folder 12
- Folder 13
- Folder 14
- Folder 15
- Folder 16
- Folder 17
- Folder 18
- Folder 19
- Folder 20
- Folder 21
- Folder 22
- Folder 23
- Folder 24
- Folder 25
- Folder 26
- Folder 27
- Folder 28
- Folder 29
- Folder 30
- Folder 31
- Folder 32
- Folder 33
- Folder 34
- Folder 35
- Folder 36
- Folder 37
- Folder 38
- Folder 39
- Folder 40
- Folder 41
- Folder 42
- Folder 43
- Folder 44
- Folder 45
- Folder 46
- Folder 1
Schools - Catawba Valley undated
- Folder 2
Funeral Home Records - Boitnott-Reynolds. undated
- Folder 3
Schools undated
- Folder 4
Robert Craig undated
- Folder 5
Houses undated
- Folder 6
World War I - News clippings from New Castle undated
- Folder 7
Meadows Family undated
- Folder 8
Brugh Family undated
- Folder 9
Woods Family undated
- Folder 10
Crowder Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 11
Yoder-Walker and Wagener-Caldwell Family Cemeteries undated
- Folder 12
Carper Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 13
Ruble Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 14
Waugh Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 15
West View Cemetery undated
- Folder 16
Birth, Marriages and Obituaries undated
- Folder 17
Caldwell Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 18
Crawford Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 19
Givens, Hypes and Paitsel Family Cemeteries undated
- Folder 20
Huffman Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 21
Hutchinson Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 22
Kent Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 23
Level Green Cemetery undated
- Folder 24
McGuire and Jones Family Cemeteries undated
- Folder 25
Rowan Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 26
Ross Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 27
Williams Family Cemetery undated
- Folder 1
Family Group Sheets - Davis, Garman, Brillhart, Martin, Bradford, Vaden and Graham undated
- Folder 2
Family Group Sheets - Bradford undated
- Folder 3
Family Group Sheets - Vaden undated
- Folder 4
Family Group Sheets - Blankenship undated
- Folder 5
Family Group Sheets - Graham undated
- Folder 6
Family Group Sheets - Basham undated
- Folder 7
Family Group Sheets - Reese undated
- Folder 8
Family Group Sheets - Davis undated
- Folder 9
Family Group Sheets - Croy, Martin, Hall, VanOver, Sheilds, Bradford and Bain undated
- Folder 10
Hale Family Correspondence 1854-1925
- Folder 11
Alls Family Homes undated
- Folder 12
Alls Family Photographs and Homes undated
- Folder 13
Hall, Garman and Wright Families - Deaths, Marriages, Military Information and Photographs undated
- Folder 14
Hall, Garman, and Wright Families - Articles, Deaths, Marriages, Photographs and Surveys undated
- Folder 1
- Folder 2
Photographs - All, Caldwell, Hale, Abbott, Hughes, Huffman and Bell Families undated
- Folder 3
Miscellaneous Photographs undated
- Folder 4
Obituaries - Hale, Layman, Brickey, Price, Hall and Alls undated
- Folder 5
- Folder 6
Obituaries - Christiansburg 1930-1970
- Folder 7
Families Researched at the National Archives - Hale, Broce, Shepherd, Slusser, Anderson, Brickey, All, Buck, McKinzie, Stanifer and Brand undated
- Folder 8
Obituaries - Radford News Journal, Montgomery News Messenger and New Castle Record 1880-1940
- Folder 9
- Folder 10
West Virginia Marriages and Deaths undated
- Folder 11
- Folder 12
Correspondence - Research on Huffman, Martin, Richardson, Lafon, Eakin, Turner and Calhoun Families undated
- Folder 13
Virginia Migrations - Virginia Genealogical Society Conference 1996
- Folder 14
Hale, Ruth - Personal Interests undated
- Folder 15
Churches - Catawba, Shiloh, Circuit United Methodist, New Castle, Mount View Christian, Mount Tabor and Slusser 1830-1910
- Folder 1
Virginia State Archives Research - Wills, Land Records, Tax Records, Marriages and Births undated
- Folder 2
Blue Ridge Rifles undated
- Folder 3
Historic Buildings in New Bern, Virginia undated
- Folder 4
Computer Research undated
- Folder 5
Correspondence with Glenna Garner undated
- Folder 6
Postcards - Paris and London undated
- Folder 7
Hale, Ruth - Personal Information undated
- Folder 8
Hale, Ruth - Research Methods undated
- Folder 9
Military History - Appomattox, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania undated
- Folder 10
- Folder 11
- Folder 12
Immigration Records - Ships and Names undated
- Folder 13
- Folder 14
Photographs - Unidentified undated
- Folder 15
Negatives - Unidentified 1981-1998
- Folder 16
Rolodex undated
- Folder 17
Hale, Ruth - Biography and Obituary undated
- Folder 1
Marriage Notices and Obituaries undated
- Folder 2
- Folder 3
Research Methods Using State Records undated
- Folder 4
Contacts - Marriages, Wills and Other Records undated
- Folder 5
Research Notes - Waggener, Waggoner, Farley, Graham, Bradford, Blankenship, Francisco, Dallas, Hall and Davis Families undated
- Folder 6
- Folder 7
Cemeteries - Published in Virginia Appalachian Notes 1977-1989
- Folder 8
- Folder 9
- Folder 10
- Folder 11
- Folder 12
- Folder 13
- Folder 1
Records of Esther Ham - Reese and Bess Families undated
- Folder 2
Records of Esther Ham - Bess and Graham Families undated
- Folder 3
Marriage and Death Records - Hale, Ahl, Alls, Remine, Romine, Broce, Garman, Anderson and Brickey Families undated
- Folder 4
Keister Family undated
- Folder 5
Greenway Family undated
- Folder 6
Hale Family - Captain Edward Hale and Descendants undated
- Folder 7
Graham Family undated
- Folder 8
Obituaries undated
- Folder 9
- Folder 10
- Folder 11
- Folder 12
- Folder 13
- Folder 14
Photographs - Hall, Anderson and Walker Families undated
- Folder 15
Marriages, Correspondence, Deeds, Wills and Deaths - All, Hall, Hale, Broce, Layman, Pike and Remines undated
- Folder 16
Research Notes - Bradford, Blankenship, Martin, Davis and Reese Families undated
- Folder 17
Publications - Virginia Genealogical Society undated
- Folder 18
Working Pedigrees - Vanover, Buys, Adriaenzen, Graham, Adkins, Martin, Francisco, Blankenship and Hall Families undated
- Folder 1
Records - Lotz Funeral Home undated
- Folder 2
- Folder 3
Records - Rader Funeral Home, Troutville undated
- Folder 4
- Folder 5
Records - Oakeys Funeral Home undated
- Folder 6
Draper Manuscripts - Excerpts on Price and Ledgerwood Families undated
- Folder 7
Photographs - Gardner and McDonald Families undated
- Folder 8
Photographs - Hale, Broce, Lee and Wiley Families undated
- Folder 9
Photographs - School Portraits from Catawba Valley undated
- Folder 10
Photographs - Unidentified Portraits undated
- Folder 11
Correspondence - Buck Family undated
- Folder 12
- Folder 13