Genealogy
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Geneology
File — Box 1: [0000004804], Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
This file consists of a notebook containing 113 pages o genealogical notes. There is also an additional 34 pages of manuscript notes on the Caruthers family in a different hand (likely the same hand as the notes on the Leyburn Family in folder 15).
Dates:
1823 - 1899; Majority of material found within 1830-01-01 - 1839-01-01
Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0303
Scope and Contents
The Alexander Lockhart Nelson Papers consist of materials related to Nelson’s life as mathematician at Washington and Lee University; Nelson, Guy, Matthews, Archer, and Rennick family genealogy; an address by Nelson on his teaching experience during Robert E. Lee's presidency of Washington College; some family and miscellaneous correspondences; and photographs. Included and, perhaps, the primary aspect of the collection is Nelson’s notebook used during his time as both student and professor of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1848 - 1902
Baer Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155
Scope and Contents
This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...
Dates:
1744 - 1929
Barbara Cary Johnston Willard Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0325
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook is a genealogical compendium of the Welsh family of Rockbridge County, Virginia and their descendants and includes many family photographs and documents.
Dates:
Inclusive 1800-2006
Botts Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0091
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 11 items from various descendants and relatives of John Minor Botts (1802-1969), all discussing Botts family genealogy.
Dates:
Inclusive 1933-1946
Buena Vista Presbyterian Church Register
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0295
Scope and Contents
This register of the Presbyterian Church of Buena Vista, Virginia was prepared during the pastorates of Reverend A.C. Hopkins and Reverend J.S. Montgomery, 1908-1926. It includes records of pastors, 1890-1924; elders, 1890-1925; deacons, 1912-1925; communicants, 1902-1926; baptisms, 1908-1924; marriages, 1925-1926; deaths, 1925-1926.
Dates:
Inclusive 1908-1926
Campbell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0393
Scope and Contents
Items in the collection include a scrapbook, a bound volume of the Ring-Tum Phi, a book of pressed leaves, Miller family birth records, photographs of Lexington and Campbell family members, newspapers, and personal letters.
Dates:
Inclusive 1843-1950
Charles Wilson Turner Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0322
Scope and Contents
Includes genealogical inquiries to Turner, postcards, and religious items.
Dates:
1992; Date of "K. N. Peppers" by Jacques Maurice
Davidson Family Papers
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-19
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0113
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers of Lexington, Virginia lawyer James D. Davidson and his daughter Mary Davidson and includes some correspondence, manuscript and printed poems of James D.Davidson, clippings, and some miscellaneaous papers from the family. James Davidson's printed and handwritten writings in the collection were compiled for his book "A Curiosity in the Chancery and Rhyme and Prose," (N.D., but likely 1876-81). The collection contains detailed genealogy of the Davidson,...
Dates:
1830 - 1915
Duncan Green Campbell Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0063
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence concerning Campbell's negotations (1824-1825) as commissioner to the Creek Indians; a transcript of the proceedings and subsequent treaty of agreement relating to the removal of the Indians to points west of the Mississippi River; land deed of Archibald Campbell (d. 1820); and Campbell family genealogy.
Dates:
1789 - 1825