Summersville (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles R. Sleeth, Professor, Typescript Autobiography of Life in West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3693
Overview
Typescript of 563 pages by Charles R. Sleeth regarding his childhood and youth in West Virginia in the 1920s, including stories about Summersville in Nicholas County.
Dates:
undated
Joseph H. Hill (b. 1851) Civil War Reminiscences
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0061
Overview
Reminiscences of Hill, a Summersville resident, about central West Virginia, particularly Pocahontas and Nicholas counties, during the Civil War period. Hill narrates a brief overview of his life, beginning with the facts of his childhood in Summersville, West Virginia, in the early 1850s to his marriage in 1869 and the subsequent birth of his children and the operation of their family farm. Hill chiefly describes his memories of the Civil War. He describes their slaves; guerrilla...
Dates:
1939
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1423
Overview
Papers of Jewett Palmer, a Union Army officer, Mayor of Marietta (Ohio), and Republican official of Washington County (Ohio). Includes correspondence, daily journals, clipping scrapbooks, military records, genealogical and autobiographical notes, and printed materials. The papers regard the activities of Company B of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) and Company G of the 36th OVI. There are also papers of Palmer's wife, Saida Scott, who taught music. Addendum of 1996/09/23 contains a...
Dates:
1856-1917