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Box 1

 Container

Contains 131 Results:

Item 128; Newspaper Clipping -- Clarksburg Exponent. Article by Charles E. Reynolds, Wilsonburg, West Virginia, regarding copy of Border Warfare that was given to his father Benjamin S. Reynolds by "Stonewall" Jackson, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 5. Newspaper Clippings, Box 1, Folder 11 (15 items)

Item 129; Newspaper Clipping -- Portsmouth, Virginia. "An Aerial Excursion." Talks about the excitement of taking a balloon ride from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Monroe County, (West) Virginia by balloon. Reverse of page has many different advertisements. (These are preservation photocopies from originals; originals located in box 2.), 1835

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Dates: 1835
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 6. Oversize Materials, Box 1, Folder 11 (SEE ALSO Box 2) (3 items)

Item 130; Deed -- Shepherdstown, (West) Virginia. Peter A. Young to John Smurr. Location is Lot 156 on Washington Street. (These are preservation photocopies from originals; originals located in box 2.), 1829

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Dates: 1829
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 6. Oversize Materials, Box 1, Folder 11 (SEE ALSO Box 2) (3 items)

Item 131; Newspaper -- Cincinnati Daily Gazette. Includes many Civil War related articles. Page 3 contains article titled "The Army in Western Virginia" from Bull Town and Page 4 contains another article "The Army in Western Virginia" from Camp Elk Fork, Virginia. (These are preservation photocopies from originals; originals located in box 2.), 11 September 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Dates: 11 September 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 6. Oversize Materials, Box 1, Folder 11 (SEE ALSO Box 2) (3 items)

Item 1. Manuscript (Typed Copy) -- "Colonel Thomas Tavenner's Plantations as they Remain Today" by Minnie Kendall Lowther. Includes many dates and names of Tavenner's ancestors and children. Also includes a brief history of the Beauchamps of Wood and Wirt counties, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 2. "M. Calloway's Captivity" (Photocopy) by A.S. Withers, includes genealogical information on the extended Withers family, ca. 1868-1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: ca. 1868-1869
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 3. Letter -- (Old Photocopy) Robert Walter Withers, Rock Castle, Virginia to Lyman C. Draper about Draper publishing an annotated edition of the book Chronicles of Border Warfare. Also contained in the letter is genealogical information on the Withers family, 1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: 1869
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 4. Letter -- (Old Photocopy) Mrs. J.S. Tavenner, Parkersburg, to L.C. Draper about his publishing a 2nd edition to Chronicles of Border Warfare. The letter also comments on receiving information from Mr. Zane and Mr. Hacker, ca. 1890

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: ca. 1890
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 5. Typed Manuscript -- (Typed Copy) "Autobiography of an Octogenarian" by Robert Enoch Withers, cites the Last Will and Testimony of John Withers, dated 29 August 1698. Three pages of Withers genealogy follow. Two copies, 1907

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: 1907
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 6. List -- Thayer Genealogy, including Richard Thayer, Nathanial Thayer, Zachariah Thayer, Able Thayer, Job Thayer, William Taylor Thayer, and John Atkinson Thayer, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)