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Doddridge County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Paul Daugherty, Collector, Family History and Photographs

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4304
Scope and Contents

Records collected by Paul Daugherty regarding family history. Includes materials documenting the Taylor, Broadwater, Lantz, Collins, Carmichael, and Ingraham families in the region of the counties of Ritchie, Doddridge, and Wood. The Taylors arrived in Ritchie County in 1842. The Broadwater family resided in Toll Gate, W. Va. in Ritchie County. There are family histories and genealogies, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material.

Dates: ca. 1850-1950

Smith-Ripley Families Genealogies

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Collection Number: A&M 3205
Overview Genealogies of the Smith family and allied Ripley family of Doddridge, Tyler and Jackson Counties, WV and Greene County, PA. The Smiths are descended from Thomas Smith, Sr. from Greene Co., PA of German descent. He was a pioneer settler of the Doddridge Co. community of Nutter's Fork. There is a 3 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. color photo of a tombstone dated 1800-85 of Isaac Smith. Others mentioned are Austin Ott Smith, John and Lydia Smith, Lewis Ripley and Harry Ripley. Material covers the years...
Dates: 1927-1989

West Virginia University, Extension Service, Publications, Reports, and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5232
Scope and Contents Records of the WVU Extension Service. Collection includes instructional booklets on cooking, decorating, and sewing from the 1910s to the 1960s, materials on rural electrification in West Virginia in the 1930s, annual conference programs, and materials on incomes and family budgets. Also includes materials relating to the Farm Woman's Club in West Virginia, studies of school children during the 1940s, and studies of cost of living in rural areas during World War II. There are historical...
Dates: ca. 1910-1980

William F. Randolph Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2943
Overview William F. Randolph (1800-61) and some of his children and father's papers. Randolph's father, Johnathan, a Harrison Co. justice of the peace, and his predecessors were prominent farmers near Salem. Randolph, who owned a farm south of Salem on Greenbrier Run, was a surveyor, and later a justice of the peace of early Doddridge Co. Some of the papers concern the estate of Johnathan Randolph and the legal conflict between Isaac Randolph, his son, and other heirs. There are estate papers for...
Dates: 1792-1869

Willis Guy Tetrick, Jr. Genealogy Research Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3230
Overview Genealogy research papers compiled by W. Guy Tetrick and his son Willis G. Tetrick, Jr. The Tetricks were from Harrison County and the material in the collection mainly regards families of Harrison County and north central West Virginia. The collection contains mostly original genealogical compilations and family histories. It also contains personal and business correspondence; financial records; publications regarding local and state history; newspapers and news clippings; obituaries,...
Dates: 1708-1997