Salem (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Deakins Family Papers and Surveying Compass
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0197
Overview
Includes records from several generations of the Deakins family of Montgomery County, Maryland and north central West Virginia. William (1742-1798) and Francis (1739-1804) Deakins, among the first generation, were active as land speculators after the American Revolution, applying their skills as surveyors to leverage acquisition of western lands. From 1778 their activities are documented through deeds, agreements, surveys, plats, surveyors' field books, court papers, and letters related to...
Dates:
1778-1925
Emory J. Woofter, Minister, Ledger
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2937
Overview
Minister's record book containing the 1930 account of the Salem First Baptist Church. Also a list of marriages performed, sermons given, and prayer meetings organized. An extensive listing of funerals attended and performed with a complete list of the deceased.
Dates:
1930-1934
John D. Martin Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1531
Overview
Letters from John Ruff, Lexington, Virginia, to his son-in-law, John D. Martin, a Methodist clergyman stationed in Lewistown, Pennsylvania; Salem, Lewisburg, Front Royal and Leesburg, Virginia; and Baltimore, Maryland. Also one letter from Martin to his wife, Susan, dated Lewisburg, Virginia, 1841. Subjects include Methodism and meetings in the Lexington-Covington area, slavery controversy within the Methodist Church and in particular the Baltimore Conference, and farming in Lexington,...
Dates:
1839-1851
Photograph Album of Scenes in the Harrison County Region
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3908
Overview
Photograph album of scenes in the area of Harrison County, West Virginia. Subjects include Lauverna Louise Thomey Wood and her father John Thomey; outdoor scenes from Salem, WV, including flood and fire damage; oil and coal industries; and mills and farms.
Dates:
ca. 1900-1909
Salem School District, Board of Education, Record Books
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2459
Overview
Two ledger size record books with handwritten entries and bills of sale. The entries include meeting minutes, transactions, reports of enumeration and financial records for the Board which serves the area of Salem, West Virginia.
Dates:
ca. 1888-1920
William M. Goudy, Soldier, Civil War Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0922
Overview
Three pocket diaries authored by William M. Goudy of Wheeling, (West) Virginia, a corporal in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company G, who was mustered into service on 31 October 1862. The entries run from January 1862 through November 1864, when Goudy's company was mustered out at Wheeling. Diary entries are brief and sporadic; subjects discussed include weather, marches, encampments, drilling and inspection, combat, eating, church attendance and sermons, and social visits and...
Dates:
1862-1864