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Monroe County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Mann-Hutchinson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3177
Overview

Correspondence of Elizabeth T. Mann, a farmer's widow of Ft. Spring, Greenbrier Co. The letters written to Mann describe family matters and farm home life during the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1879-1893
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2537
Overview Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides,...
Dates: 1783-1991, 2021, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1910-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Meadows Heritage Genealogy Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3141
Overview

The microfilm contains family group sheets and other genealogical information on the descendants of Francis Meadows of Virginia and Monroe County, Arris Meadows of Greenbrier County and Kentucky, Jacob Meadows of Mercer County, and Thomas Mead/Meador of Virginia. The information had been collected by Meadows Heritage, a family organization, since 1975.

Dates: 1975-1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0102
Overview

Court case papers, wills, deeds, surveys and plats, ca.1772-1879, along with bound volumes of court records, deeds, estrays, road and tax records, a register for free blacks, and private account books, 1783-1923. The account books include: records of a U.S. Army post hospital at Union, 1867-1869; oil well drilling, 1886-1890; Union and Fort Spring Stage Line, 1876-1877; newspapers, 1867-1903; taverns, 1815-1872; and Union Lyceum minutes, 1845-1847.

Dates: ca. 1772-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County Reminiscences

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Collection Number: A&M 2020
Overview

Typescripts of the reminiscences of several residents of Monroe County, including Isaac Wilson, which Billy Meredith Hardy recorded in 1933 in Indian Creek. The reminiscences are both humorous and serious. Subjects include a murder and hanging, the naming of Buzzard's Run, women's sad stories, and typhoid fever, among others. Also includes an essay which describes high school commencement week in Greenville in 1933, with particular attention to the first ever junior-senior banquet .

Dates: 1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County Schools, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0123
Scope and Contents Records of Monroe County public schools, including a printed circular relating to the allocation of revenues of the Literary Fund under the Act of Assembly of 21 February 1818; manuscript financial reports, receipts, orders for tuition and teachers' salaries, attendance and progress reports, lists of books and supplies, reports on the number of schools in operation, and other records.Microfilm for this collection is available, including:Reel 1. 1818-1843...
Dates: 1818-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County, Volunteer Soldier Payment Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3961
Overview

Two photocopied documents listing members of companies of volunteer soldiers, with number of days in service and amounts paid by J.M. Byrnside, agent of Monroe County. The first list pertains to the company of Captain Christopher I. Beirne in May 1861; the second list pertains to the company of Captain Fielding Fleshman in May or June 1861.

Dates: 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Oren F. Morton (1857-1926) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1191
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, sketch books, published and unpublished manuscripts, literary notes, business records, and printed material of a schoolteacher, newspaper writer, county historian, novelist and essayist from Kingwood, whose fiction and nonfiction writings deal primarily with the Virginia-West Virginia Allegheny highlands. His best known works are WINNING OR LOSING?: A STORY OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS (1901); LAND OF THE LAUREL: A STORY OF THE ALLEGHANIES (1903); UNDER THE...
Dates: ca. 1799-1846, 1875-1926
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peter Larew Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1603
Overview Papers of a pioneer Monroe County family, including a manuscript ciphering book, 1790, a diary of a journey to southwestern Ohio, 1810, a manuscript militia manual and company roster, and various business, church, and legal papers of county militia captain, Peter Larew. The papers of his son, John M., include a general merchandise account book, the estate papers, and various business and legal documents. The collection also contains a series of letters, 1876-1892, from John Larew's sons in...
Dates: 1790-1892
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Red Sulphur Hotel Register

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0480
Overview

Pages from a guest register for a Monroe County, West Virginia, hotel when it was under the proprietorship of Hunter & Company.

Dates: 1907 July 8 - October 30
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center