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Watring Family Genealogical Charts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2462
Overview
Photocopies of genealogical charts for the Watring and related families, covering the years 1700-1976.
Dates:
1976
Watson and Haymond Families Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4222
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Watson and Haymond families of Marion County, West Virginia. Includes a journal, family financial and legal materials, correspondence, genealogical research materials, publications, photographs, a painting, and other material. Includes significant material regarding the American Civil War, particularly in the diary of Virginia Haymond. Series include:Series 1. Journal of Virginia Haymond; 1859-1863, undated; box 1 and box 2, folders 1-2....
Dates:
1796-1963; Majority of material found within 1834-1963
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1815
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills,...
Dates:
1798-1902
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates:
1694; 1783-1878; 1926
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0630
Scope and Contents
Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont...
Dates:
1869-1953
Watters Smith, Papers of a Harrison County Resident
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3940
Overview
Papers regarding Watters Smith of Harrison County, and related family members. Includes manuscripts (1852-1863), plat document (undated), clippings (undated), and oversize items (undated, 1842, 1939). Manuscripts include stock certificate in West Milford and New Salem turnpike, and two Civil War letters and parole from Camp Chase. Clippings include obituaries for Harvey Faris Smith (born 1873) and Burr Smith (born 1877), and articles regarding Watters Smith Memorial Park. Oversize items...
Dates:
1842-1939
Wayne County Newspaper Clippings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0168
Overview
Clippings of "Wayne County History Notes" column from the Wayne County News, Wayne, West Virginia, dated 3 June 1949; 12 August 1949; 25 November 1949; and 23 December 1949. Most topics concern nineteenth-century history. They include Civil War Colonel Milton J. Ferguson; the Wayne County government and court system; and an armed robbery in Huntington, West Virginia.
Dates:
1949
Wayne Howard, Collector, Folk Music Recordings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4692
Scope and Contents
20 seven-inch reels of vocal and instrumental music, with some oral history. Performed by Burl, Lee, and Sherman Hammons, Maggie Hammons Parker, Dwight Diller, and others. Recordings were made in Stillwell and Marlinton, West Virginia. These recordings have been digitized, and a contents list is available upon request.Addendum of 2001: 3 inch, 7.5 ips reel-to-reel tape of Edwin Hammons performing "Waynesboro" and "Washington's March," originally recorded in the 1940s. This tape...
Dates:
1971-1980
Wayne J. Chisler, World War II Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3528
Overview
Two-hundred World War II letters from Private Wayne J. Chisler, a quartermaster, to his wife Elsie Pullman Chisler, both from Morgantown, West Virginia. Letters discuss camp life, entertainment (including music, movies, sports), and sentiments. Wayne Chisler went to boot camp at Fort Lee, Virginia in July to September of 1942, and then went to the embarkation center of Fort Lawton, Washington state in September, 1942. He was then sent to a base on Umnak, the easternmost island of the chain...
Dates:
1942-1945; Majority of material found in 1942-1944
Wayne Pereira, Poet, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3331
Overview
Papers of local poet Wayne Pereira, including manuscripts and sound recordings of his poetry and songs, and unidentified video.
Dates:
1980-1995