West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gregory Winters, Compiler, Papers of William Wayt Family of Marshall County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3696
Overview
William Davenport Wayt (1846-1913) of Marshall County, West Virginia, was a country doctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collection contains papers of William Davenport Wayt and several of his descendants, including his son, William Blaine Wayt (1879-1956), a teacher and farmer; his daughter, Jessie Logan Wayt (1888-1965), a teacher; and his granddaughter, Margaret Wayt DeBolt (1931-2009), a journalist, author, and genealogist, all of Marshall County. Materials...
Dates:
1867-2009; Majority of material found within 1892-1956; Majority of material found within 1977-2001
Hunter Armentrout, Collector, Gilmer County Historical Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3659
Scope and Contents
Papers of historian and collector Hunter F. Armentrout of Gilmer County, West Virginia, primarily documenting the history of the Gilmer County region in the 19th century. Collection chiefly contains correspondence, writings, financial papers, and photographs, One major component of the collection includes the letters of Amie Evaline Sexton Silcott (1836-1865), a member of the Sexton family from New England who settled in western Virginia. Her letters contain much information regarding life...
Dates:
1813-2008, undated; Majority of material found in 1840-1890, undated