Collection of the Hulver Family and Baughman Settlement, Hardy County, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4552
The collection includes a wealth of information on the Baughman and Hulver families, and others who established the Baughman Settlement in the late eighteenth century. The collection spans from the antebellum Civil War era through World War Two. The collection includes correspondence, postcards, family photograph albums and assorted photographs, biographical sketches and family history, books, legal documents, receipts, certificates, and Confederate money. Also present are assorted newspapers and news clippings from Hardy County and other areas of West Virginia, as well as papers from the Midwest, upper South, and East Coast from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. The collection also contains a number of medical, agricultural, religious, and consumer catalogues and pamphlets. This collection includes information on family history in Hardy County and the surrounding areas, as well as information about the experiences of a West Virginia agricultural community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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This collection consists of information about the Baughman settlement in Hardy County, located in the northeast section of West Virginia. It was once a large community, founded in 1787 by Andreas “Andrew” Baughman. Many of his family remained in the area for many decades, and many documents and receipts relate to Jacob Baughman (1784-1857). The Hulver family was another family whose roots in the area stretched back to the 1790s. George Hulver (d. 1830?) settled there after his service in the Revolutionary War, transitioning to Hardy County from Shenandoah County, Virginia. He and his wife, Susannah, had nine children who survived to adulthood. The Hulvers were farmers who lived on the east side of the Lost River. During the Civil War, several men, including two of George's grandsons, Hayden (1837-1915) and Isaac (b. 1841), served in different Confederate Virginia cavalry units. Hayden's son, George B. Hulver (1872-1938) and his wife, Christena "Tena" (Baughman) Hulver (1880-1958), stayed in the Lost River area, as did their son, M. Lisle Hulver (1907-2006) and his wife, Virginia (Coffman) Hulver (1914-1996). The Mount Moriah Lutheran Church played a prominent role in the community, and the church cemetery is the final resting place of many Hulver and Baughman family members. Many families left the settlement in 1940 after floods destroyed the Lost River bridge.
5.88 Linear Feet (5 ft. 11 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 document cases, 2.5 in. each); (2 record cartons, 15 in. each); (2 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 large flat storage box, 1.5 in.))
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Gift of Richard Hulver, 2021 September. Donated in memory of Lisle and Virginia Hulver.
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