Christina Matheny, Collector, Hibbs Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3947
Documents regarding the Hibbs family of Preston County, (West) Virginia and Union soldier Benjamin Hughes (ca. 1842-1923, birth dates vary among sources), who was a friend of the family. Hughes was mustered on January 26, 1864 and served in the 3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry, and Company D of the West Virginia 6th Cavalry. Civil War material includes a document granting furlough to Hughes, and a letter from him to L. W. Hibbs. Hughes married Virginia Susan McCallister in 1872.
There are also financial and legal documents, including land documents, tax records, and promissory notes, of transactions involving brothers William Hibbs (1832-1910) and Laban W. Hibbs (1834-1896); and a group photograph of William Hibbs and family.
-Information in this note found on Ancestry.com and FindaGrave.com
See also A&M 3741 for further information regarding Benjamin Hughes and his connection to the Hibbs family, including the original of the second half of letter located in folder 1 of this collection.
English
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Documents regarding the Hibbs family of Preston County, (West) Virginia and Union soldier Benjamin Hughes, who was a friend of the family. Civil War material includes a document granting furlough to Hughes, and a letter from him to L.W. Hibbs. There are also financial and legal documents, including land documents, tax records, and promissory notes, of transactions involving William Hibbs and Laban W. Hibbs; and a group photograph of William Hibbs and family. Please see "Scope and Content Note" for further information.
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Separated to the book collection; forwarded to Curator of Books:
Brocklesby, John. Elements of Physical Geography, Together with a Treatise on the Physical Phenomena of the United States. Philadelphia: E.H. Butler and Company, 1886.
Brooks, Edward. The New Normal Mental Arithmetic: A Thorough and Complete Course, by Analysis and Induction. Philadelphia: Christopher Sower Company, 1873.
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