Echols, John, 1823-1896
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hays Family of Gilmer County, West Virginia Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2734
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Hays family of Gilmer County, West Virginia, centering on Peregrine Hays and his son Samuel Hays. The collection includes Civil War related material; correspondence; financial, business, and legal records; and other material. The Civil War material includes a receipt for the sale of enslaved Africans, military orders, and records of financial transactions made in Confederate currency. The correspondence within the collection includes personal letters between members of the Hays...
Dates:
1837-1963; Majority of material found in 1863-1902
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
Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents
The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates:
circa 1788-1888
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- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Academies and Institutes. 1
- Account books 1
- Accounting 1
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cemeteries -- Recording 1
- Civil War - military telegraph. 1
- Civil War -- Confederate soldiers 1
- Education 1
- Egypt 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
- Indians, North American. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lewisburg (W. Va.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Marriage records 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church. 1
- Military camps 1
- Money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Pioneers 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Railroads 1
- Registers of births, etc 1
- Roads -- West Virginia 1
- Schools 1
- Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 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
- Vicksburg (Miss.) 1
- Women -- Education -- United States 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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