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Fawn Valentine, Historian, West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search Records and Research Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4687
Scope and Contents
Records of the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search (WVHQS), a project to document West Virginia quilts made prior to 1940, as gathered by historian and researcher Fawn Valentine. Records include oral histories of West Virginia quilters and accompanying transcripts, WVHQS files on the quilts and quilters documented in the project, and assorted other research papers. Also included is an unquilted quilt top (circa 1930s) that was documented in the project.Also included are...
Dates:
circa 1930s, 1980s-2010s, and undated
Fayette County Court Minute Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1883
Overview
Photostat negative of page 246 in Minute Book of the Fayette County Court. The court appropriates and arranges to borrow $5,000 for defense of the county in accordance with an act of the Virginia legislature, inasmuch as the ". . . State has been invaded by a hostile army of Northern Fanatics, and we feel bound to resist said invasion to the last extremity. . . . ".
Dates:
1861
Fayette County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0362
Overview
County court and public records primarily concerning deeds, estates, guardianships, executors, poor and paupers, roads, and “scalp certificates” for various animals. There are also record books, predominantly personal property and land books, and a few private accounts. There is also a breadth of material concerning records of personal property; county courthouse and jail; marriages; liquor, attorney, minister, and professional licenses; apprenticing; surveys and plats; lunacy;...
Dates:
1787-1923; Majority of material found within 1870-1923
F.B. Voegele, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1088
Scope and Contents
This book contains articles primarily of a historical nature; much of it dealing with the history of Virginia, West Virginia, and the Southern Seaboard. There are a few contemporary articles and obituary notices of several West Virginians.
Dates:
1925-1940
F.B. Voegele, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1102
Scope and Contents
These items include an autograph letter of Governor J.B. Jackson, 1884; and embossed state seal with the autograph signature of Governor Henry M. Mathews, ca. 1877-1861; and a picture of Joseph H. Diss Debar, designer of the W. Va. State seal.
Dates:
ca. 1878-1884
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1192
Scope and Contents
The papers of the President of Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike, charted in 1837, consist of land grants, deeds, and indentures; legal papers; turnpike correspondence, stock, books, contracts, and reports to the Board of Public Works, the Virginia Legislature, and stockholders. Some of the correspondence deals with the Washington Temperance Society, church activities in the Kanawha Valley, the salt industry along the Kanawha Salines, the James River and Kanawha Turnpike...
Dates:
1796-1876
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1089
Scope and Contents
These are the land and mercantile papers of Felix Hansford, a large land owner along the banks of Pain[t] Creek and the Great Kanawha River, near the town of Clifton in [Kanawha] County. The collection is primarily account statements, receipts and buisness notes.There are a few land surveys, entries and deeds dating back to the 1790. Some of the papers shed light on the Hansford's activities as a falt boat builder, sawmill and grist mill operator, and justice of the peace. A few letters and...
Dates:
1790-1875
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1464
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike. Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury,...
Dates:
1790-1862
Felix Nemegyei, Engineer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4189
Overview
Papers of Felix Nemegyei. Nemegyei, also known as Felix DeNemegyei or Nemegyei Bodog, was a Hungarian soldier and engineer who immigrated to the United States in 1851. He settled in West Virginia and became the owner of an iron works and other businesses. Papers include records of Nemegyei's academic performance as a student, records of his military service in Europe, material regarding military engineering, and family history. Family history material includes items regarding Nemegyei's...
Dates:
1811-1850
Felix Snider Records regarding Snider Property in Grant District, Monongalia County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0980
Overview
A certified abstract to the Felix Snider property of Grant district, Monongalia County, indicating leases of mineral rights, describing location of property and payment of taxes. There is a history of this acreage from when it was patented (1809) by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the heirs of George Snider to the settlement (1930) of the Felix Snider Estate. Included in the abstract are legal actions among the heirs, warranty deeds, plats, and wills. Part of this tract is still owned by the...
Dates:
1920-1930