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Nicholas County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Lawrence A. Lang, Collector, West Virginia Land Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3833
Scope and Contents

West Virginia land records, including receipts for fees paid, surveys, certificates of survey, land patents, grants, correspondence and other material. Some of the records are copies rather than official documents. The records are sorted by the names of buyers and stored in envelopes. Recorded to the fronts of the envelopes is information relevant to their contents.

Dates: 1865-1896; Majority of material found within 1867-1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lawrence William Nuttall (1857-1933) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2174
Scope and Contents One letter from J. Haynes Miller to Dr. Earl. L. Core, n.d, concerning Howard B. Tully, Sr. and Jr. and explanation of his source for the enclosed material on John Nuttall; one letter from Howard B. Tully, Jr. to Mr. Miller regarding the Nuttall material. A one page copy of a typescript, "Approximate General Statement as to holdings of John Nuttall Estate", describing the coal and timber lands in Fayette and Nicholas counties, income from, taxes on, and branch railroads owned by...
Dates: 1971; N.D.
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ludella Seabolt, Compiler, Genealogy Records for Centennial of Leivasy, West Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2626
Overview

13 family tree charts and correspondence regarding the celebration of the centennial of Leivasy, WV, in 1979. Families documented include Amick, Bays, Bryant, Judy, McClung, McCutcheon, Osborne, Pitsenbarger, and Seabolt.

Dates: 1979
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nicholas County Survey Record Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0786
Overview

This collection is a record book of surveys for Nicholas County, Virginia, 1819-1836. The book contains a list of names for whom the surveys were made.

Dates: 1819-1836
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0611
Overview Records of the Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company. Includes 55 account books in 9 series: 1) Bills Payable & Bills Receivable (1 item); 2) Cash Books (9 items); 3) Cashier's Check Registers (9 items); 4) Check Registers and Records (5 items); 5) Day Book (1 item); 6) Journals (8 items); 7) Ledgers (4 items); 8) Petty Cash Books (2 items); 9) Sales Books and Shipping Books (16 items). These records are from company offices in Clarksburg, Curtin, and Sutton, and from logging operations in...
Dates: 1889-1938
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert G. Bennett, Compiler, Genealogy Research Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3813
Overview

Notebooks of genealogy research records compiled by Robert G. Bennett regarding the Bennett family of Nicholas County, West Virginia, including information on the Grahm, Grose, Lively, Malcom, and Neil families. There are 17 notebooks. Family histories are for the period ca. 1700-1970. There are also a few photographs.

Dates: ca. 1950-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rufus E. Ribble, Photographer, Panoramic Group Portrait Photographs of Coal Miners and Related Subjects

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4167
Overview This collection of panoramic photographs primarily documents the coal miners of Fayette and Raleigh counties. The photographer, Rufus "Red" Ribble, was born May 14, 1878, near Blacksburg, Virginia, and died December 27, 1967 in West Virginia. He came to West Virginia sometime before 1920 and lived out his life in Mount Hope. The collection contains 119 panoramic photographs, which were made with a large rotating camera called a Cirkut camera. These photos are contact prints; all but one are...
Dates: ca. 1920-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates: 1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center