Matthews family
Family
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Hall and Gandy Families (Preston County, W.Va.) Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1834
Overview
Genealogical descent charts of the Hall, Gandy, and allied families of Preston, County, West Virginia, from 1724 to 1961 as compiled by Clarence M. Smith in 1989. Typescript chiefly lists descendants of George Brown Hall (1824-1882) of Preston County, West Virginia, and his wife, Nancy Gooseman Gandy (1828-1917), also of Preston County. along with birth, marriage, and death dates.
Dates:
1989
Joseph C. Jefferds, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1983
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, records, charts, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and one West Virginia University cadet uniform of 1898. There are typescript carbon copies of county court records from Bath County, Virginia, and Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia; list of scholars attending Lewisburg Academy 1883-1885; and genealogical material on Arbuckle, Beard, Bell, Boone, Bright, Burger, Burr, Cooley, Cunningham-Gudgell, Dickinson, Feamster, Gillilan, Gilmore,...
Dates:
1896-1965
Kanawha County Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0933
Overview
Family genealogies in this collection include: Allen, Anderson, Ashley, Bower, Bowling, Durry, Franklin, Glover, Johnson, Kincaid, Mathews, Overholt, Pennell, Rader, Savage, Settle, Stephenson, Ten Eyck, Thornberry, and Young. Material covers the years 1711-1955.
Dates:
1956
Minnie McWhorter, Compiler, Genealogies
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0928
Overview
Family genealogies in this collection include: Alderson, Alkire, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ball, Barnes, Barnet, Bartlett, Bassel, Benedum, Bennett, Blake, Bonnett, Boughman, Brake, Burr, Bush, Carber, Carpenter, Carroll, Casto, Champe, Cheuvront, Chrislip, Cookman, Coplin, Corder, Couch, Cummins, Cunningham, Curry, Custis, Cutright, Davidson, Davis, Donnally, Douglass, Dyer, Eagan, Eastwood, Fairbank, Farnsworth, Fell, Flesher, Gaston, Gates, Girty, Goff, Goodloe, Hacker, Hagerman, Hall,...
Dates:
undated
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
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview
Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.
Dates:
1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Genealogy 3
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Bath County (Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
- Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
- Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
- Court records 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Georgia 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County - Court records. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Kanawha County -- Genealogy 1
- Land. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pioneers 1
- Pocahontas County - court records. 1
- Poets and poetry. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Women -- Education -- United States 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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