Glendening family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Glendening Family Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3453
Overview
Glendening Family Letters, 1864-1883. Correspondence (6 items) relating to the wartime death of Private Abraham Glendening, 5th Co., Ohio Sharp Shooters. Letters detail the circumstances of Glendening's death; the conflict in which he was killed (action involving gunboat near Hollowells Landing, Alabama, May 12, 1864); efforts to acquire his belongings and pension; and the grief of his family and friends in Mill Creek, Berkeley County, West Virginia.
Dates:
1864-1883
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview
Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates:
1774, 1822-1943
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- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Accounting 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Pioneers 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) 1
- Women -- Education -- United States 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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