Farnsworth family

Overview

1821 travel journal of Abigail Farnsworth, mother of West Virginia's second Governor, Daniel D.T. Farnsworth. Documents travel from Staten Island, New York to Buckhannon in Lewis County, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents Papers regarding the genealogy and family history of the Stone Family of Vienna, Wood County, West Virginia. Includes family trees, narratives, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, deeds, maps, publications, silver plated dishware and silverware. Also includes a painting of family member Augustus Israel Stone. The genealogy and family history material regards the Stone Family and allied families including the Barnes, Farnsworth, Hammett (or Hammet), Spencer, Tracewell (or...

Overview Includes four typescript family genealogies: Stone Family genealogy, 1590-1931, Thomas Spencer Family genealogy, 1721-1918, Tracewell Family genealogy, 1536-1925, and the Farnsworth Family genealogy, 1677-1960. Includes photocopies of three 1887 manuscript letters from L. Morrison to S.S. Stone, one of which is written on an 1887 advertisement for land in Pocahontas County; a 22' x 37' chart tracing 12 generations of Samuel Spencer Stone's ancestors, and photocopies of newspaper obituaries...