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Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

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Collection Number: A&M 1045
Scope and Contents Booklet No. 1, 18th and 19th Century People, compiled by Hazel Groves Hansrote, 1957. Lists names of pioneers, ministers, soldiers, and teachers of early [West] Virginia, and adjoining counties of Maryland, with places of, residence and dates as compiled from approximately sixteen sources, including Withers Chronicles of Border Warfare; Hampshire County Court Records; Virginia Genealogy and County Records; Official Records of Frederick County; American State Papers, Claims XIX, Virginia;...
Dates: 1700-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1207
Scope and Contents

These records, compiled by Mrs. Hansrote, consist of a nine page typescript genealogy of President Andrew Johnson and a seven page typescript of Patterson branch of the Andrew Johnson family. The latter include copies of Patterson family letters.

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1263
Scope and Contents

Typescript compilation of the family records of the Finleys (Findley, Findlay); the Kables (Kabel, Cabel, Cobel, etc., descendants of Casper Kabel,[1731-1815]); James Sheakley; and the Senoindivers (Zinsindorffer, Simpsendorfer, Sensendorfer).

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1113
Scope and Contents

Typescript, "18th and 19th Century People, Couples, Family Groups, 'Bite of History', Sidelights of History" of early Virginia and Kentucky. Primarily names from county marriage registers.

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Johnson, Nurse, Awards, Photographs, and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 4348
Scope and Contents Collection of items belonging to Hazel Johnson, an esteemed nurse who had a long association with the military, including service during the Vietnam War, and who attained the rank of Colonel. A native of Buffalo, West Virginia, she went to West Virginia University and attained a masters degree in nursing. The collection includes awards, certificates, ephemera, and photographs of her travels.Box 1; folders 1-8: Papers relating to women in the military including: DACOWITS (Defense...
Dates: 1954-2012
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Run Baptist Church Ledger

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Collection Number: A&M 1778
Overview The Hazel Run Baptist Church minute book with the church's covenant, minutes of meetings and lists of newly baptized members, 1856-74. The Hazel Run Baptist Church later became part of the nearby Hopewell Baptist Church, both located in Preston County. The Hopewell Baptist Church ran Sunday School classes (1883-95) of the combined Baptist and Methodist congregations (the Hopewell Union Church Sunday School) and included are class attendance records. The Hopewell Baptist Church records...
Dates: 1856-1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazelton Milling Co., Manufacturer, Buckwheat Flour Bags

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Collection Number: A&M 4435
Content Description

Two buckwheat flour bags with graphic illustrations manufactured by the Hazelton Milling Co. of Preston County. Each of the bags is decorated with a different screen printed design in red, black, green, and orange ink.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

H.B. Tharp Letter (copy)

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Collection Number: A&M 2559
Overview

Xerox copy of a letter home dated March 21, 1881, from a West Virginia University student to his mother and father, H.B. Tharp, in Ritchie County.

Dates: 1882
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

H.C. Ogden Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 2315
Overview

A letter written by Herbert Hoover, then serving as Secretary of Commerce, to H.C. Ogden, thanking him for a complimentary editorial published in the Wheeling INTELLIGENCER. Also, a carbon copy of Ogden's typed reply to Hoover and a microprint copy of the editorial.

Dates: 1928
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 1330
Scope and Contents Forty-nine letters of Ephraim W. Frost of Co J., 116th Reg, Ohio Vol Inf. Frost, who lived in Coolville, Ohio, near Parkersburg, was stationed at Moorefield, Martinsburg, near Romney, Winchester and Sleepy Creek in Morgan County, where his Reg. was guarding the B & O. The letters comment on fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 around Woodstock, mention of McNeill, Imboden, and Mosby, and contain much on camp life in the eastern panhandle area. Frost was wounded near Piedmont in May...
Dates: 1861-1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 29
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Barbour County (W. Va.) 28
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United States. Congress. Senate 38
West Virginia University. President 35
West Virginia University. Library 32
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 31
Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 31
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 29
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 28
United States. Congress 28
West Virginia. Legislature 28
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 27
West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service 26
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 25
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 23
Byrd, Robert C. 23
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 23
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 23
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 23
Monongalia County (W.Va.) 22
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 21
West Virginia University. Department of History 21
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 21
Smith family 20
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 18
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 18
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 18
Dayton, Alston Gordon 18
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 18
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 18
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture 18
Davis family 17
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 17
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 17
Brown, John. 16
Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908 16
Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 16
United States. Army 16
West Virginia (Ship) 16
Callahan, James Morton, 1864-1956 15
Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939 15
Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.) 15
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 15
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 14
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 14
Morgan family 14
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 14
Van Winkle, P. G. (Peter Godwin), 1808-1872 14
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 13
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 13
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 13
Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920 13
Hayman family 13
Meadows, Clarence W. 13
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 13
Patteson, Okey L. 13
Summers, Festus P. (Festus Paul), 1895-1971 13
Weston State Hospital 13
White, I. C. (Israel Charles), 1848-1927 13
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 12
Core, Earl Lemley, 1902-1984 12
Dawson, William M.O. 12
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 12
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 12
Moore family 12
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 12
Barron, W. W. 11
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 11
Consolidation Coal Company 11
Fleming, A. B. (Aretas Brooks), 1839-1923 11
Gore, Howard M. 11
Jackson family 11
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930 11
Washington, George, 1732-1799 11
West Virginia University. College of Pharmacy 11
West Virginia University. Department of Biology 11
West Virginia University. Extension Service 11
American Federation of Labor 10
Brown family 10
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 10
Dayton, Spencer 10
Evans family 10
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976 10
Goff, David, 1804?-1878 10
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 10
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 10
Robinson family 10
Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Wilson, William Lyne, 1843-1900 10
Cuthbert, John A. 9
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 9
Green, William. 9
Hall family 9
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 9
Johnson, Louis. 9
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