Taylor County (W. Va.)
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Ada Haldeman Ford, Suffragist, Papers
Alexander Foreman, Photographer, Glass Plate Negatives
Anita Cutright Burnett, Collector, Papers
Papers of Anita Cutright Burnett, an Upshur County genealogist and active member of the Upshur County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The collection contains DAR membership applications, genealogical correspondence, vital statistics for Lewis and Upshur counties and typed copies of the 1850 census returns for Ritchie and Taylor counties.
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers
Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers
Ash and Purkey Families Genealogy
Genealogy research records of the Ash family of Harrison and Doddridge counties, and the Purkey family of Taylor and Randolph counties. Includes family worksheets footnoted with sources, historical narrative, photographs, and original documentation in transcript and facsimile form. The majority of the collection is comprised of photocopies. Records assembled 1980-2000 by Sandra Delaney covering 1600s-1900s.
Ashford Brown Papers, Archives
Ledger of illness remedies used by Dr. Ashford Brown of Gladesville, West Virginia, who practiced medicine in Monongalia, Preston and Taylor counties before and during the Civil War.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Records
Telegraph operators' log at the D. K. Tower, near Webster in Taylor County, Feb 20 to May 27, 1908. Entries contain many humorous anecdotes.
Benjamin F. Miller Letter
Letter to Susanna from Morgantown describing hot weather and working arduously in a farm's wheat and oat field. He mentions the courthouse at Pruntytown being struck by lightening. He also gives his opinion about hypocrisy among church members saying that they can no more "square their lives by the Great Moral Code than a jackass can square himself on a sharp edged rail for a fiddler at a camp meeting of bull frogs."