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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Katherine Williams, Collector, Williams Family Papers, A&M 4138, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

George Irwin was born ca. 1837.

He enlisted September 23, 1864 as a private in Company F, 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and died April 15, 1865, at Fort Gaines, Alabama, killed by chronic diarrhea (according to Ancestry.com, and Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]) or hepatitis (according to the Widows Pension). He was buried in Mobile County, Alabama.

His wife, Margaret A. Irwin (nee Hahn), Toboso, Licking County, OH (1841-1915), married George on March 11, 1856. She remarried in 1869.

They had three children, including: Albert F., born 1858, Alice S. or L. (later Alice Redman), born 1861, and Laura A., born 1863. (From Widow's Pension Application, https://www.fold3.com/image/270825916/)

Scope and Contents

Family papers compiled by Katherine Williams of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Most of the papers are of the James H. Taylor family of Clarksburg, West Virginia dating from the 19th century. There are also records of the Irwin family including a genealogy, and the Civil War letters of private George Irwin, a soldier in Company F, 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Other families documented include the Redman and Summers families. The collection includes letters, autograph books, family business records, genealogies, photographs, and other material.

Addendum of 2017/07/10 includes two books regarding the Misty Pilots of the Vietnam War, one of which contains autographs of the pilots obtained during a reunion, and an autograph of Senator McCain who authored a foreword. They are titled "Bury Us Upside Down" (2006), which contains the autographs, and "First Person Stories of the F-100, Misty Fast FACS in the Vietnam War" (2002). Charles Williams, the donor, was a relative of a Misty pilot who was shot down, Howard Williams.

Addendum of 2017-08-22 includes an Upshur County marriage license for James Taylor (1861) and four books regarding the Taylor family (1976-2005).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Berkeley Springs (W. Va.)
• Civil War - Union soldiers.
• Civil War -- letters
• Clarksburg (W. Va.)
• Genealogy
• Marriage certificate.
• Ritchie County (W. Va.)
• Taylor family
• Upshur County (W. Va.)
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• West Virginia - genealogy.