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Preston County - families.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Eileen Peters, Compiler, Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3281
Scope and Contents

Genealogy research papers of Eileen Peters. Includes genealogies, research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, photographs, books, and other publications documenting primarily Preston County, West Virginia families, as well as families of the tri-state region of West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia. Also includes histories of Preston County, West Virginia (18th through 20th centuries), and general information on how to conduct genealogical research.

Dates: 1887-1995
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jenkins Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0790
Overview Miscellaneous family papers of John E. Jenkins, Albright, relating to Preston County, West Virginia. Included are correspondence and genealogies of Preston County families and papers dealing with education and churches in the county. Bound volumes include a minute book, "Regimental Courts of Enquiry," for the One Hundred Fourth Regiment, Virginia Militia, later the Twenty-fourth Regiment, West Virginia Militia, 1836-1866; and a minute book of the Brandonville and Terra Alta Telephone...
Dates: 1832-1951
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John Fairfax Will

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0297
Overview

Typescript copy of the last will and testament of John Fairfax of Preston County, Virginia, now West Virginia, dated 22 December 1843. Details the distribution of Fairfax's estate, including a stone house, slaves, farm, furnishings, land, and animals, to his wife, children, and grandchildren.

Dates: 1843
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph W. Summers Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0927
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, maps, newspapers, and other printed materials of the family of Joseph W. Summers, Morgantown. Included are deeds for Summer land in Preston County, 1831-1903; genealogy notes complied by Mr. Summers on the Barker, Buzzard, Harris, Hoffman (Huffman), Holland, Knapp, Swisher, and Tarleton lines of the Summers family in West Virginia; obituary notices and local history clippings from the Morgantown Post, ca.1930-1956; and several scrapbooks of...
Dates: 1831-1956
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center