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Birth, marriage, and death records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

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

First Christian Church (Connellsville) Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1376
Overview

Record of ministers, members, baptisms, deaths, meetings of the church board, reports of the various church departments, and organizational history.

Dates: 1865-1903

Gladys Link Hartzell, Collector, Account Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2326
Overview

Account books of John Sheetz (1842-1882) with some pages used to record the words to Confederate songs; Doctor's (N.D. Pairan's) account book, 1836-1838; William Martin's account book for a general store, 1777-1783; and two ledger books used as scrapbooks, containing mainly notices of deaths and marriages.

Dates: 1777-1885

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1015
Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school...
Dates: 1778-1955

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1018
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, principally from Harrison and Doddridge county papers, concerning W. Va. Servicemen in World War I, weather and flood reports, and miscellaneous West Virginia Subjects. There are also some clippings from Parkersburg and various Ohio papers.

Dates: 1917-1950

Harry T. Leeper, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0348
Scope and Contents Collection includes family correspondence of the Bowman, Veach, and Leeper families. Manuscripts include a recounting of the Civil War event known as "Jones' Raid." In another document Nathaniel Cochrane, an ancestor of Thomas Leeper, recounts his capture and imprisonment by indigenous people, along with a biography of Cochrane. Daily life for that time is captured in "Home Life of the Leeper Family." Other typescript histories include "Monongah," Thomas Leeper's diary regarding heavy rains...
Dates: 1779-1915

Haymond-Fleming Law Firm Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0544
Overview Correspondence of A.F. Haymond and A. Brooks Fleming, Fairmont attorneys. Correspondents include J.M. Bennett, G.D. Camden, J. Carlile, Henry Mathews, and F.H. Pierpont mentioning politics, separation from Virginia, the Arthurdale community development, and routine legal business. Included are land and legal papers, 1760-1797, from Hampshire, Monongalia, and Ohio counties, mentioning Patrick Henry and Henry Lee. Also in the collection are: a leather billfold; estate papers and marriage...
Dates: 1760-1936

J. H. Kelley, Physicians' Accounts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2688
Overview

Four volumes titled "Physician's Visiting List," dated 1886, 1891, 1905, and 1906, for the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area. The 1891 copy contains a prescription written by J.H. Kelley, M.D. of Parkersburg, suggesting that all volumes were Kelley's. They contain numerous names, addresses, charges, and treatments, as well as other miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1886, 1891, 1905-1906

John C. Sanders, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0064
Overview

Records of marriages, 1816-1867, performed by the Reverend William Welch, Mineral County, West Virginia; Civil War typescripts, including "Capture of Generals Kelly and Crook," by Capt. Jesse C. McNeill, and "Capture of a Railroad Train," by John T. Peerce. There are scrapbooks on South Branch Valley history, and account books for grain, carding, and other activities in Morgantown. There are also clippings and photographs.

Dates: ca. 1816-1900