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A Guide to the James Morris Bagby Papers, 1962-2013 Bagby, James Morris, Papers, 1962-2013 50973

A Guide to the James Morris Bagby Papers, 1962-2013

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 50973


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
50973
Title
James Morris Bagby Papers, 1962-2013
Physical Description
3.5 cubic feet (8 boxes).
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

James Morris Bagby Papers, 1962-2013. Accession 50973. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Mary Ann Quarles Bagby, Richmond.

Biographical Information

James Morris Bagby was born on 12 November 1938 in Richmond, Virginia. He was the son of Everett Conway Bagby (1907-1941) and Sara Lewis Shelton (1913-2003). He married Mary Ann Quarles in Columbus, Ohio on 25 November 1978. Bagby received a B.A. degree in History and Political Science from the University of Richmond, M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia, and Ph.D. in Educational Research and Development from The Ohio State University. His career was devoted to education, and he was a history and mathematics teacher in numerous Virginia public schools, program evaluator for the Ohio Department of Education, mathematics supervisor and assessment specialist for the Chesterfield and Hanover County Schools, mathematics and statistics adjunct professor at The Ohio State University and Virginia Commonwealth University, and a mathematics specialist for the Virginia Department of Education. He was a member of the Virginia and National Councils of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics. Bagby also had interests in genealogical research and history, and was a member of the Virginia Genealogical Society, Friends of the Virginia State Archives, Louisa County Historical Society, Virginia Historical Society, and the Jamestown Society. James Morris Bagby died in Richmond on 18 April 2013, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1962-2013, of James Morris Bagby (1938-2013) of Richmond, Virginia, including his genealogical research on the Bagby family of Hanover and Louisa Counties, Virginia, and the allied families of Cocke, Hollins, Hope, Lewis, Meredith, Morris, Moss, Parrish, Pleasants, Quarles, Shelton, and Thomas. The collection contains correspondence, maps, research notes, and copies and transcriptions of Bible records and family registers, census records, deeds, land patents and grants, marriage records, tax lists, tombstone inscriptions, wills and other estate administration records, and published sources. Bagby's research was used in compiling a 1043-page family history for his children in 2010.

There is also information relating to his membership in various organizations, including the Friends of the Virginia State Archives, Jamestowne Society, Louisa County Historical Society, and the Virginia Genealogical Society, such as correspondence, meeting materials, minutes, and newsletters. Also in the collection is a USB flash drive with drafts of articles for the Louisa County Historical Magazine (2010-2012), an index to articles appearing in the journal beginning in 1969, and varous genealogical research files compiled by Bagby. There are also files regarding genealogical research, methodology, and sources.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1
Anderson .
Box 1 Folder 2-13
Bagby .
Box 2 Folder 1
Bagby, Anne L. .
Box 2 Folder 2
"Genealogy of the Bagby Family" by Dr. George K. Bagby and Mr. and Mrs. WIlliam Murlin Creasy .
Box 2 Folder 3
John Bagby Property .
Box 2 Folder 4-6
"Some Ancestors of Sara Shelton Bagby, Ann Quarles Bagby, and Richard Morris Bagby" by James Morris Bagby (1043 pgs.), 2010 .
Box 2 Folder 7
Baylor .
Box 2 Folder 8
Bibb .
Box 2 Folder 9
Brame .
Box 2 Folder 10
Brooke .
Box 2 Folder 11
Charts .
Box 2 Folder 12
Cheedle .
Box 2 Folder 13
"Canterbury" Ownership .
Box 2 Folder 14
Chiles .
Box 2 Folder 15
Christmas .
Box 2 Folder 16
Clopton .
Box 2 Folder 17
Clopton Family Association .
Box 2 Folder 18
Cocke .
Box 2 Folder 19
The College of Arms .
Box 2 Folder 20
Cosby .
Box 3 Folder 1
Crawford .
Box 3 Folder 2
DNA .
Box 3 Folder 3
Doswell .
Box 3 Folder 4
"Family Graveyards in Hanover County, Virginia" by Helen Kay Yates .
Box 3 Folder 5
Fields .
Box 3 Folder 6
Flash Drive .
Box 3 Folder 7
Fleming .
Box 3 Folder 8
Ford .
Box 3 Folder 9
Friends of the Virginia State Archives .
Box 3 Folder 10
Friends of the Virginia State Archives - Lectures, Workshops, etc. .
Box 3 Folder 11
Gardner .
Box 3 Folder 12
Genealogical Research - How-To, Sources, etc. .
Box 3 Folder 13
Gorsuch .
Box 3 Folder 14
Grubbs .
Box 3 Folder 15
Gwathney .
Box 3 Folder 16
Hardin/Harding .
Box 3 Folder 17
Harris .
Box 3 Folder 18
Holland .
Box 3 Folder 19
Hollins .
Box 3 Folder 20
Hope .
Box 3 Folder 21
Hughes .
Box 3 Folder 22
Isbell .
Box 3 Folder 23-25
Jamestowne Society .
Box 4 Folder 1
Johnson .
Box 4 Folder 2
Jones .
Box 4 Folder 3
Kentucky Genealogical Research .
Box 4 Folder 4
Layne .
Box 4 Folder 5
Lipscomb .
Box 4 Folder 6
Louisa County .
Box 4 Folder 7
Lovelace .
Box 4 Folder 8
Maps and Plats .
Box PP Oversize Box 104 Folder n/a
Maps and Plats .
Box 4 Folder 9
Meredith .
Box 4 Folder 10
"William Meredith's Family - Past and Present" by Alfred W. Turner, Jr. .
Box 4 Folder 11
Meriwether .
Box 4 Folder 12
Mills .
Box 4 Folder 13
Miscellaneous .
Box 4 Folder 14
Morris .
Box 4 Folder 15-16
Moss .
Box 4 Folder 17
Murphy .
Box 4 Folder 18
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4 (December 1972) .
Box 4 Folder 19
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) .
Box 5 Folder 1
Newsletters - Friends of the Virginia State Archives .
Box 5 Folder 2
Newsletters - Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation .
Box 5 Folder 3-5
Newsletters - Jamestowne Society .
Box 5 Folder 6
Newsletters - Louisa County Historical Society .
Box 5-6 Folder n/a
Newsletters - Virginia Genealogical Society .
Box 7 Folder 1
North Carolina Genealogical Research .
Box 7 Folder 2
Nutting .
Box 7 Folder 3
Overton .
Box 7 Folder 4
Parrish .
Box 7 Folder 5
A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750 by Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman .
Box 7 Folder 6
Pleasants .
Box 7 Folder 7
Prince Edward County Property .
Box 7 Folder 8
Quarles .
Box 7 Folder 9
Ragland .
Box 7 Folder 10
Raine .
Box 7 Folder 11-14
Research Notes .
Box 7 Folder 15
Rogers .
Box 7 Folder 16-18
Shelton .
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Shelton .
Box 8 Folder 3
Shelton Family Tree Book - Additions and Corrections .
Box 8 Folder 4
Shelton, James Blair .
Box 8 Folder 5
Shelton, John Blair .
Box 8 Folder 6
Sims .
Box 8 Folder 7
Stanley Family Papers, 1855-1886 .
Box 8 Folder 8
Talley .
Box 8 Folder 9
Temple .
Box 8 Folder 10
Terry .
Box 8 Folder 11
Thomas .
Box 8 Folder 12
Thomson .
Box 8 Folder 13
Thornton .
Box 8 Folder 14
Tidewater Virginia Families .
Box 8 Folder 15
Trice .
Box 8 Folder 16
Turner .
Box 8 Folder 17
"Descendants of Daniel Turner" by Alfred Wilmer Turner .
Box 8 Folder 18
Virginia Genealogical Research - How-To, Sources, etc. .
Box 8 Folder 19
Virginia Genealogical Society .
Box 8 Folder 20
Walker .
Box 8 Folder 21
Walton .
Box 8 Folder 22
White .
Box 8 Folder 23
White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth Century Virginian by Wesley Frank Craven .
Box 8 Folder 24
Woodson .