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Neville Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2528
Overview
Genealogy of the Neville family entitled "A 360 year history of One Neville Family." (1612-1972).
Dates:
1976
New England Baptist Church Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3028
Overview
The membership lists and minutes to business meetings of the New England Baptist Church of Washington, Wood County. The church was organized by members of the locality who belonged to the Bethel Baptist Church of Parkersburg and was named after its first meeting place, the New England schoolhouse. The church minutes contain mention of revival services, the ordaining and placement of clergy and the appointment of church lay leaders, such as deacons and moderators. The membership lists consist...
Dates:
1850-1987
New Prospect Baptist Church, Minute Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2598
Overview
A minute book of the New Prospect Baptist Church of Leivasy, Nicholas Co., WV. The book contains membership lists, covenant of church formation and minutes to business meetings. The minutes mainly reflect church investigations, discipline, policy, and attendance at Greenbrier district conferences.
Dates:
1861-83
New River Coal Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1767
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, shipping records, tonnage reports, records of grades of coal produced, and lists of the officials employed at various company mines. There are issues of the New River Employees Magazine and Spotlight. Also included are Annual Reports, 1911-1942, and two picture guidebooks for company mines. Physical materials include a miner's petition asking for a work pay scale...
Dates:
1911-1951
New River Symposiums Proceedings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3393
Overview
Compact disc of a searchable database of 1200 facsimile pages of New River Symposium Proceedings dating from 1982-1999. Articles in the Proceedings discuss the natural and cultural features of the New River region of West Virginia, including the following topics: botany, Civil War, coal mining, environmentalism, folklore, folk music, geology, Green Sulphur Springs, historic preservation, iron industry, native Americans, railroads, rivers (Bluestone, Gauley, New), transportation, and Mary...
Dates:
1982-1999
New River Valley (W.Va.) Postal Service Record Books
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1919
Overview
Twelve postal record books for Rush Run and Brooklyn, West Virginia, in the New River Valley. Postmaster account books contain records of stock, such as stamps and envelopes sold; receipts to the post office and mail carriers; and payments made by the post office. There are quarterly as well as daily total accounts. Books from Brooklyn date from 1939 to 1941; books from Rush Run date from 1927 to 1935 and from 1938 to 1940. Also includes registers of money orders issued. Brooklyn register...
Dates:
1920-1965
New York Times Picture Section, Photographs of World War I
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3913
Overview
Contains photographic history of World War I entitled New York Times Picture Section, 1917, a book containing the photographs published by the newspaper from Sunday, January 7, 1917, through Sunday, December 30, 1917. They were published using the rotogravure process. Also includes the New York Times War Map. The volume measures 18 in. by 24 in. by 1 1/4 in.
Dates:
1917
Newbraugh Family Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0692
Overview
Photostat positive prints of birth, marriage and death records of the Newbraugh family, 1760-1854; a receipt for bonds received, 1800, and a letter, 1802, concerning the estate of Abraham Darlington.
Dates:
1954
Newlon-Camden Families History and Genealogy
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1802
Overview
Typescript genealogical notes and narrative family histories of the Newlon and Camden families from the 1600s to the 1930s. Chiefly contains information about the James H. Camden family of Maryland (and later, West Virginia) from the 1720s to the 1930s, including records about properties owned and the sale of land; birth, marriage, and death dates; transcripts of obituaries; and transcripts of letters sent between family members researching and gathering family history between 1909 and 1932....
Dates:
1909-1934
News Articles regarding Civil Rights Activist Reverend Robert S. Graetz and Jeannie Ellis Graetz
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4502
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three news articles regarding the passing of Rev. Robert S. Graetz (1928-2020) and Jeannie Ellis Graetz (1929-2020). Rev. Graetz (born in Clarksburg, WV) was the minister of the Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, the only white clergyman in Montgomery, Alabama to pastor a majority-Black church in the 1950s. He and his wife, Jeannie Ellis Graetz, were members of the Montgomery Improvement Association and were actively involved in their community. Rev. Gaetz notably...
Dates:
2020 September 20-2020 December 16