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Kuykendall family

 Family

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Blanch H. Kuykendall, Compiler, Hardy and Hampshire Counties Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2420
Overview

Mimeographed typescript containing genealogical information on the Ball, Blue, Guthrie, Harminson, Kuykendall, Pancake, and Smith families; also some information on the genealogy of Thomas Parsons and John Marshall (John Marshall of the Forest). Most of these families were early settlers in the Hardy-Hampshire County area. Material covers the years 1704-1954.

Dates: 1954

Hardy and Hampshire Counties, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1171
Overview Copies of Fairfax grants and surveys made or copied by James William Kuykendall, county surveyor; record of the town lots in Moorefield; extracts from Hardy and Hampshire County records; cemetery readings; muster roll of the McNeill's Rangers, 1861-1865; prospectus for Kuykendall family history, and local history items. The volume contains detailed records for Cunningham, Harness, Kuykendall, Parsons, and Van Meter families. Other records pertain to the Casey, Fisher, Hite, Hopkins,...
Dates: ca. 1750-1922

James William Kuykendall Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1180
Overview

Papers of a land surveyor from Hardy County include family and business correspondence, 1888-1926; letters from George Benson Kuykendall on family genealogy, 1911-1914; Kuykendall's correspondence as a member of the county board of education, 1908-1915; account books, diaries, surveying notes, Sunday school class book, 1876-1923; and plats, surveys, and deeds of land in the Hardy-Grant County area.

Dates: 1765-1926

Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates: 1907-1945

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Hardy County (W. Va.) 2
Surveyors and surveying. 2
Account books 1
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