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McCoy Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0558
Overview Business correspondence and papers, including land grants and deeds, 1761-1881, surveys, wills, and account books of William McCoy, Sr. and Jr., of Pendleton County. There are papers on the administration of estates; management of property in Mercer, Pendleton, and Randolph counties, and in Augusta and Highland counties, Virginia, for absentee owners; and on farm operations. There is material on the Central Bank of Virginia at Staunton; the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike Company; and...
Dates: 1761-1903

Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates: 1859-1964

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview

Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.

Dates: 1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866

Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates: 1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884

Snyder Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0490
Overview

Personal and business correspondence of Harmon, Molly, John, and other members of the Snyder family; genealogical information on the Lantz and Snyder families; land grants, surveys and deeds for land in Barbour, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties, West Virginia; and poll and registration books for Randolph County. Included also is Harmon Snyder's daybook and diary, listing accounts for the years 1866-1896 and incidents of the Civil War.

Dates: 1790-1937

Virginia Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1240
Scope and Contents

Microfilm include State Land Office Records; S. Bassett French, Biographical Sketches; Mott-Alston Collection of Colonial Families; Confederate Service Records of Virginia Soldiers; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Public Service Claims; Revolutionary War, Bounty Warrants; Revolutionary Pensions; Revolutionary War, Rejected Claims; Family Genealogical Notes; and List of Baptist records at the University of Richmond.

Dates: 1623-1933

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Account books 3
Diaries and journals. 3
Genealogy 3
Women's history -- 1850-1899 3
Church buildings 2
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Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 2
Civil War -- letters 2
Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
Revolutionary War. 2
Wood County (W. Va.) 2
Agriculture 1
Banks - Central Bank of Virginia. 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Birth, marriage, and death records. 1
Bounty warrants 1
Cheat River (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
Churches -- Fairview Church 1
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 14th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Infantry. Company A 1
Civil War - West Virginia 1st Light Artillery. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 3rd Cavalry 1
Civil War - West Virginia 6th Cavalry, Company A. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 7th Volunteer Infantry. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War - veterans - Confederate. 1
Civil War -- War diaries 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
Clinton District, Monongalia County. 1
Confederate soldiers - Monongalia County 1
Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
Deckers Creek 1
Elections 1
Estate settlements. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Forts. SEE ALSO Civil War - Fort. 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Greene County (Pa.) 1
Hacker Valley. 1
Halleck Community 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Immigration. 1
Jefferson College, Pa. 1
Kern's Fort. 1
Maps. 1
Marion County (W. Va.) 1
Mercer County (W. Va.) 1
Mills and mill-work 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Newspapers. 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Preston County Courthouse. 1
Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
Raven Rocks 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
Robinson's Run. 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
Uffington. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
Virginia -- Statistics, Vital 1
Virginia - records. 1
West Virginia University - Drill Field 1
West Virginia University - buildings - Main Library. 1
West Virginia University - buildings - Martin Hall. 1
Weston (W. Va.) 1
White Rocks -- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
Women's history -- 1800-1849 1
Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
Women's history -- Pre-1800 1
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Names
Brown, John. 2
Cook family 2
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 2
Fleischer family 2
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 2
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Rector, Enoch. 2
Tavenner family 2
Tavenner, Jennet Withers. 2
Tavenner, Thomas, 1776-1857 2
Tavenner, William Cabell. 2
Austin family 1
Bailey family 1
Baker family 1
Barr, Henrietta Fitzhugh 1
Bennett, Jonathan M., 1816-1887 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Bunner family 1
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, John S. 1
Cassady, Capt. James S. 1
Chadwick family 1
Crogan, Patrick J., 1856-1949 1
Cunningham, John S. 1
Cutlip, P. G. 1
David, S. O. 1
Day, Solomon. 1
DeVaul family 1
Fast/Fass/Faust family. 1
French, S. Bassett 1
Gambrell family 1
Gambrill, Charles. 1
Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, Collector 1
Hacker family 1
Hahn family 1
Hall family 1
Helmick family 1
Huldeman, Joseph H. 1
Jackson family 1
Jolliffe family 1
Keck, L.V. 1
Keister-Jenkins family. 1
Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Lanham family 1
Lantz family 1
LeVelle family 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Lewellen family 1
Lucas, Rawley 1
Matthews family 1
Maxwell, Rufus. 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McCoy family 1
McCoy, William Jr. 1
McCoy, William Sr. 1
McGrew, James Clark. 1
McKinney, Lt. W.M. 1
McNemar family 1
Miller family 1
MoRae, Elijah 1
Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike Company 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Mrs. Louise. 1
Poole, Ella. 1
Rinehart, Caroline B. 1
Rowan, Andrew Summers 1
Ryan family 1
Shuttleworth family 1
Slack, Greenbury. 1
Snyder family 1
Snyder, Harmon. 1
Snyder, John. 1
Snyder, Molly. 1
Virginia 1
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 1
Wells family 1
West Virginia University 1
Wherry, J.H. 1
Whitham, George. 1
Wilson, Mary Jane 1
Wilson, William M. 1
Withers family 1
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
Young family 1
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