Watson family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Jolliff Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3241
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of photographs, publications, letters, and newspaper clippings regarding the Jolliff and Watson families. Jolliff family history is highlighted in photocopies of the publication, Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, From the Year 1760 to 1878 Inclusive by Oliver P. Jolliff and James S. Watson (1878). A photocopy of the Journal of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Encampment, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the...
Dates:
1878-1954
Watson and Haymond Families Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4222
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Watson and Haymond families of Marion County, West Virginia. Includes a journal, family financial and legal materials, correspondence, genealogical research materials, publications, photographs, a painting, and other material. Includes significant material regarding the American Civil War, particularly in the diary of Virginia Haymond. Series include:Series 1. Journal of Virginia Haymond; 1859-1863, undated; box 1 and box 2, folders 1-2....
Dates:
1796-1963; Majority of material found within 1834-1963
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1815
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills,...
Dates:
1798-1902
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates:
1694; 1783-1878; 1926
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0630
Scope and Contents
Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont...
Dates:
1869-1953
Filtered By
- Subject: Marion County (W. Va.) X
Additional filters:
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- Morgantown (W. Va.) 4
- Agriculture 3
- Education 3
- Land. 3
- Account books 2
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 2
- Barrackville Covered Bridge. 2
- Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 2
- Church buildings 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Covered bridges 2
- Europe 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Frontier and pioneer life 2
- Genealogy 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Travel accounts. 2
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- California 1
- California -- Gold discoveries 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Georgia 1
- Illinois 1
- Iowa 1
- Ireland 1
- Kentucky 1
- Louisiana 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Missouri 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Photography 1
- Politics and government. 1
- South Carolina 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1 + ∧ less
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