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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Robert Fonner, Collector, Records regarding Tyler County, A&M 3385, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Records collected by Robert Fonner regarding Tyler County, West Virginia (WV) and also the Civil War.

There are clippings clippings (1958-94) regarding the histories of Middlebourne (WV), Marietta (Ohio), and Tyler County High School.

Civil War papers include three letters (1862), one short note (1863), short supply list (undated), discharge for John Brady of Ohio (1866), and three pension documents (1875-79); two of the letters are authored by George Livingston (possibly an engineer involved with pontoon bridges), the first from Wheeling (5/1862), the second from Georgetown, D.C. (9/1862) mentioning camp conditions, Cedar Mountain, White Sulphur Springs, the Rappahanock River, and Second Bull Run.

There are over 60 Tyler County appointments and commissions documents (1815-1860s, for justices of the peace, sheriffs, etc.) bearing Virginia's seal and Governors' signatures. There are also Tyler County polling records for delegates (1815,57), and for creating a new county, Pleasants, from Tyler, Wood, and Ritchie Counties (1845,48,50). Pleasants County was formed in 1851.

Separated Material

To periodicals:

"Heritage Windows", newsletter of Tyler County Heritage and Historical Society (95/1, 96/1, 97/2, and index to 1988).

To rare books:

White's New County and District Atlas of the State of West Virginia (1875).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Civil War -- Camps and camp life
• Middlebourne.
• Pleasants County (W. Va.)
• Tyler County (W. Va.)
• Tyler County High School
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865