Summers County (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Pauline Haga, Compiler, Summers County Wills
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3558
Overview
Facsimiles of wills recorded in Summers County, West Virginia, including: Robert A. Pearis, Anderson Vest, Rachael A. Cottle, J. B. Pack, John Lewis, Wellington Cox, Mordica Roles, Nancy Maddy, Preston Pack, Nancy Millburn, Lewis Copeland, Harrison Neely, William Crump, Lewis Whitten, Catherine Patterson, Sarah Brown, Elizabeth Brown, John Gill, Ann Eliza Mills, James Cales, William James, John Duncan, James Farley, James Patterson, Powell Butler, Jonathan L. Willis, Margaret (Martha)...
Dates:
1859-1886
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
Summers County Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0655
Overview
County court papers consisting mainly of marriage and financial administration records, including roads, schools, and poor funds. There are also estate administration and lunacy proceedings papers; tax books; school records; and an account book of the firm of Meador and Graham at Hinton.
Dates:
1859-1949
Summers County, Histories of Pioneer Colonel James Graham and Village of Lowell
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3135
Overview
Notes and a transcription on the history of the Graham/Grayham family and about Lowell, Summers Co., WV. It is an account of the pioneering activities of Col. James Grayham including frontier warfare during the American Revolution in what is now Summers Co. There is also a history of the village of Lowell emphasizing its development as a Chesapeake & Ohio railroad center in the Greenbrier River valley in the late nineteenth century and its contribution of money and manpower in World War...
Dates:
ca. 1920-1991
Vida Bailey, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1847
Overview
Indentures, deeds, court papers, land grants, letters, church notices, tax and other receipts, bills, notes and other materials concerning the Bluestone River area in Summers County, West Virginia, especially the Josiah Meadows and Robert Lilly families. Includes a Church of Christ minute book kept by Thomas Lilly, 1802-1817; a land grant to Jesiah Meador signed by Governor James P. Preston, 1809; and a letter from William Sellergrit Lilly from upper Louisiana Territory telling of earth...
Dates:
1790-1882
West Virginia Postmasters Appointment Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3026
Overview
The record of the appointment of postmasters in the following WV counties: Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood and Wyoming. The record shows the dates of establishment and discontinuance of post offices, their changes of name, and the names of and the appointment dates of their postmasters. Beginning in 1870, it shows the names of post offices to which mail from discontinued offices was sent. The record also shows the dates of...
Dates:
1857-1971