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Box 3

 Container

Contains 21 Results:

Newspaper Clippings -- Contains miscellaneous clippings related to historical sketches on Greenbrier families including Burnside, Haynes, Henning, Plumer, Reynolds, McElhenny, and Chief Pontiac. 13 items, ca. 1887-1940

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Dates: ca. 1887-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Zimmerman Collection -- History of Greenbrier County

Newspaper Clippings -- Contains miscellaneous historical sketch materials on Greenbrier families including Feamster and Rumsey Skiles. Additional subjects include West Virginia rocks, Native Americans (Indians) of West Virginia, and Mound Builders. 13 items, ca. 1867-1887

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Dates: ca. 1867-1887
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Zimmerman Collection -- History of Greenbrier County

Contains photocopies of items in folder 9. 13 items, ca. 1887-1940

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Dates: ca. 1887-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Zimmerman Collection -- History of Greenbrier County

Contains photocopies of items in folder 10. 6 items., ca. 1867-1887

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Dates: ca. 1867-1887
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Zimmerman Collection -- History of Greenbrier County

Contains a copy of Captain Alexander Welch's eleven-page "A Rare Old Manuscript..." Subjects include colonial soldiers at Valley Forge, Ronceverte, Arbuckle's Fort, Indian attacks, Civil War, currency valuations of other countries, and cost of goods, supplies, and livestock. 2 items, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 5. Zimmerman Collection -- History of Greenbrier County

Series 6. Military Records -- West Virginia, 1859-1938

 Sub-Series — Box: 3, Folder: 14-18
Scope and Contents This subseries includes military records related to military companies or organizations of West Virginia. Items include a roster of Morris Post #50 Grand Army of the Republic members, record books of the Greenbrier Light Infantry Grays, information on companies formed before and after John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, etc. The Greenbrier Light Infantry Grays were Company A, 2nd West Virginia Regiment, organized July 21, 1877, Lewisburg, WV. For additional West Virginia military records,...
Dates: 1859-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 6. Military Records

Contains a "Descriptive Book" or roster of the Morris Post #50, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Department of West Virginia, Weston, Lewis County, which includes the name, age, birthplace, etc., of 137 soldiers. Also contains a poem entitled "The Death of the G-A-R," by MacKinlay Kantor; and a handbill from the Headquarters of the Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the Republic, upon their return from the Sixteenth National Encampment in Des Moines, Iowa. 3 items, ca. 1880-1938

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Dates: ca. 1880-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 6. Military Records / Series 6. Military Records -- West Virginia

Contains a piece of Weston Council No. 59 Jr.O.U.A.M. (Junior Order United American Mechanics) ephemera and scrapbook. The scrapbook includes a pamphlet of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Greenbrier Light Infantry Grays, W.Va.M., which includes name, age, occupation, etc., of the officers and members. Also includes a loose ledger page. 2 items, ca. 1877-1910

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Dates: ca. 1877-1910
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 6. Military Records / Series 6. Military Records -- West Virginia

Contains a Minute Book of the Greenbrier Light Infantry Grays. Back part of book includes a list of gun numbers and roll of the GAR of GLIG. 1 item, 1879-1882

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Dates: 1879-1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 6. Military Records / Series 6. Military Records -- West Virginia

Includes a Greenbrier Light Infantry Greys Account Book, which lists members and dues payment information, "Hawks Nest Men," and men's gun numbers. Also includes a newspaper clipping related to the GLIG. 4 items, 1877-1880

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Dates: 1877-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers / Series 6. Military Records / Series 6. Military Records -- West Virginia