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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Jack Sandy Anderson, Compiler, Historical Records regarding West Virginia, A&M 3903, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

William A. Sandy (1786-1847) "lived at what is now Sunnybrook Farm near Worthington, WV...He was a large landowner and served Harrison County   as an overseer of the poor, constable, and a 'gentleman justice.' In 1842 his homeplace became part of Marion County  ." By Jack Sandy Anderson, 3 December 2012.

Hugh M. Shinn, "who never married, was a son of David Mahlon and Ann Rebecca (Fleming) Shinn. His grandfather, Honorable Solomon S. Fleming, was involved in the movement that led to West Virginia's creation in 1863, served in the new state's House of Delegates (was Speaker), and in 1852 was elected Shinnston's first mayor. Mr. Fleming was an uncle of Governor A.B. Fleming. Hugh's youngest sister, Mrs. Catherine Shinn Haas (1878-1974), joined with Miss Grace A. Martin and me in 1972 to found the Shinnston Historical Association." By Jack Sandy Anderson, 9 May 2012.

Hood Family: "Second World War ration books. Belonged to Harry C. Hood, Charles P. Hood, Pleasant Hood (Mrs. Charles P. Hood), and Miss Hannah L. Hood, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Hood. They resided at Big Elm Farm, near Shinnston. Harry, who never married, and Charles inherited the farm from their father, William Hood, who bought it in 1868 from my great-great-grandfather, Richard Everson. Hannah never married, and became the farm's sole owner. She died in March 1976, and the farm was sold to a coal company." By Jack Sandy Anderson, 10 May 2012.

Haymond Family: "Col. Henry Haymond (1837-1920), an officer in the Civil War and a distinguished citizen of Harrison County  . He wrote a history of the county   that was published in 1910. He was a son of Col. Luther Haymond,[brother of Lewis and Bruce Haymond,] a grandson of Major Thomas Haymond, and a great-grandson of Major William Haymond." By Jack Sandy Anderson, 2013 March 1.

Scope and Contents

Historical material compiled by Jack Sandy Anderson.

Contents List:

Oversize folder 1; a land grant for land in Monongalia County  , Virginia, signed by James Monroe (1801), found among the papers of Anderson's great great great grandfather William A. Sandy (this tract of land may have been purchased by Sandy; for more details, see Historical Note);

Oversize folder 2; a West Virginia teaching certificate granted to Newton Busby Sandy (1875);

Small Collection folder 1; a typed copy (2 pages) of a Civil War letter from Union soldier Andrew Lemley, Camp Gauley, Virginia, to his brother George, who lived on Fishing Creek in (West) Virginia (28 November 1862); the letter mentions Point Pleasant;

Small Collection folder 1; a diary kept by Hugh M. Shinn of Shinnston (7 December 1894 - 29 November 1895) in which Hugh mentions doing a land survey, going to a show at the local "opera house", log rafting, and farming (for more details, see Historical Note);

Small Collection folder 1; eleven U.S. War Ration Books (ca. 1942-1943) belonging to the Hood family of Shinnston (for more details, see Historical Note);

Small Collection folder 2; A Pot Pourri of Poetry by Hazel Rector Smith (1978);

Small Collection folder 2; a signed reprint of Ramblings (1990), a book about the history of Shinnston, Enterprise, and Bingamon, WV, written by Anderson and originally published in 1960 (includes photographs);

Small Collection folder 2; a computer printout (3 pages) of an article about the Mathews   family of Lumberport, written by Anderson (2010);

Box 1; manuscript copy of a 1777 Revolutionary War document pertaining to food supplies obtained by William Haymond while a militia captain at Prickett's Fort (copy by Colonel Henry Haymond, 1908) and a sketch of the April 30, 1863 skirmish at the Maulsby Covered Bridge near Shinnston, WV, by Bruce Haymond (1863?) (for more on the Haymond family, see Historical Note);

Box 1; correspondence of Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930), including a letter from John W. Davis (1923-1928);

Box 1; Daughter of the Elm: a Tale of Western Virginia Before the War , by Granville Davisson Hall, published by Arcuri Book Shop, Fairmont, WV, with genealogical notations by Anderson (1950);

Box 1; Across the Years, Poems , by Blanche Elizabeth Price, published by William-Frederick Press, New York (1954);

Box 1; typescripts on the Kennedy family, Mary Bayles Ice, and the Straight/Strait family of Monongalia County   (ca. 1968);

Box 1; eleven historical articles by Jack Sandy Anderson regarding local people and places, published in the Shinnston News and Harrison County   Journal (ca. 1990-2010);

Box 1; copy of the 1946 booklet Hidden Powers , by Lawrence H. Martin, regarding sorcery (1999); and

Box 1; information about Universalist minister Quillen Hamilton Shinn and family (2013).

The collection also includes notes written by Anderson, which give context and sometimes genealogy of the items' original owners.

Related Material

3903, 3926

Separated Material

Separated for possible addition to WVRHC collection:

McGlauflin, William Henry. Faith with Power; A Life Story of Quillen Hamilton Shinn, D.D. Boston: Universalist Pub. House, 1912.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Harrison County (W. Va.)
• Hayman family
• Hood family
• Sandy, William A., 1786-1847.
• Shinn, Hugh M.
• Shinnston (W. Va.)
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865