Alexander family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander, Fultz, and Willson Families Collection
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-45
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0539
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1770 - 1970
Anderson Family papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...
Dates:
1755-1958
Essay, "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957"
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0664
Content Description
This collection is comprised of an eight page typescript essay titled "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957" by Estelle V. Anderson. The essay was written in 1973 and details African American schools, churches, and families of the Buffalo District of southwest Rockbridge County, Va., one of six former magisterial districts which included such communities and locales as Collierstown, Bolivar Mills or Murat, North and South Buffalo, Black's Creek, and Kyger's Hill. The essay...
Dates:
Essay; Other: Majority of material found within Time frame of coverage of essay
Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0331
Scope and Contents
There are two volumes of carbon copied letters from Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin to many notable Lexington, Virginia families as well as several photographs and pamphlets.
Dates:
Inclusive 1910-1913
Robert Alexander Legal Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0037
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a deed, dated August 13, 1747, for a tract of land near the town of Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia, conveyed to Robert Alexander from William Beverley and two legal papers connected with the deed. There is also an authorized English Bible, 1766, with Robert Alexander's signature. Genealogical information by George Diehl is housed in the control folder.
Dates:
1747 - 1766
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