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Pendleton County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Linda Warden, Collector, Borror Family History and Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4431
Overview

Collection of material regarding the Borror family, including a photograph album of Civil War battlefields; photographs of the Borror farm in West Virginia; family newsletters; material from family reunions; and family history and genealogy.

Dates: 1920-2019, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Martin Judy Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3798
Overview Collection of photographs, artifacts, and correspondence relating to the Martin Judy (1831-1885) and Christena Harper Judy (1831-1912) family of Judy Gap, Pendleton County, West Virginia. Subjects of photographs include Martin and Christena Judy, their children, and a few relatives. Most subjects are identified. Artifacts include a scarf, quilt, toy calf, creamer, dish, jewelry box, and cowbell. Correspondence includes memory books and sympathy cards for the deaths of Isom P. Judy and his...
Dates: ca. 1857-2012; Majority of material found in ca. 1890-1986
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

McCoy Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0558
Overview Business correspondence and papers, including land grants and deeds, 1761-1881, surveys, wills, and account books of William McCoy, Sr. and Jr., of Pendleton County. There are papers on the administration of estates; management of property in Mercer, Pendleton, and Randolph counties, and in Augusta and Highland counties, Virginia, for absentee owners; and on farm operations. There is material on the Central Bank of Virginia at Staunton; the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike Company; and...
Dates: 1761-1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Miles Dahmer Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3390
Overview

Papers of the Dahmer family of Upper Tract, Pendleton County, WV, featuring the papers and artifacts of Miles Dahmer, who served the Confederacy in the 25th Virginia Infantry.

Dates: 1791-1913
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nelson Family Bible Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1833
Overview

Copies of the records of births, marriages, and deaths from the Bible of the Nelson Family of Pendleton County, WV.

Dates: 1809-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Oren F. Morton (1857-1926) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1191
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, sketch books, published and unpublished manuscripts, literary notes, business records, and printed material of a schoolteacher, newspaper writer, county historian, novelist and essayist from Kingwood, whose fiction and nonfiction writings deal primarily with the Virginia-West Virginia Allegheny highlands. His best known works are WINNING OR LOSING?: A STORY OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS (1901); LAND OF THE LAUREL: A STORY OF THE ALLEGHANIES (1903); UNDER THE...
Dates: ca. 1799-1846, 1875-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pendleton County Court Assessment Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0676
Overview

Assessment book used in Pendleton County (West) Virginia, 1797, which lists names of taxpayers and their taxable property. Also includes envelope with writing describing other assessment books of the County (undated). See Pendleton County Court Records microfilm box Pen 1 for a microfilmed copy of the book.

Dates: 1797
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pendleton County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0038
Overview

Legal papers pertaining to Pendleton County, (West) Virginia from 1789 to 1880. Includes bonds, marriage bonds, capiases, affidavits, indentures, and military commissions signed by Virginia governors.

Dates: 1789-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pendleton County Manuscripts and Account Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2332
Overview A collection of account, record, and minute books, as well as ledgers relating to the history of Franklin and Pendleton County, West Virginia. Included are account books belonging to George Hammer (1859-1889); a minute book of the Franklin Water Works (1845-1877); a Pendleton County tax book (1826); and a book of bonds for the administrators and executors of estates from 1802 to 1820. Included are letters to Mary M. Colaw, from relatives in Pendleton County, mainly concerning family news,...
Dates: 1802-1902
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Petersburg White Water Weekend Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3259
Overview Brochures, programs, and one broadside concerning the Petersburg White Water Weekend, an event of regional and national interest featuring canoe and kayak races in the South Branch Valley, an area encompassing the South Branch of the Potomac River within several West Virginia counties of the Potomac Highlands. Original materials are as follows: 1964 official program and broadside advertisement, 1968 brochure, and 1965 official program. Facsimiles are as follows: brochures for 1966, 1967,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1964-1971; 1964-2007
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center