Charles D. Tibbetts Papers
Scope and Contents
Papers of Charles D. Tibbetts who died in Phoebus, Virginia in 1924 at the age of 94 or 96. The collection includes a few financial and personal documents and personal correspondence, but it is mostly correspondence between people involved with Tibbetts' inheritance. Tibbetts enlisted in the army in Richmond, Virginia when he was 17 years old and fought in the Mexican War. Genealogy of the Tibbetts, Stover and Cunningham families are partially shown in the letters searching for heirs.
Dates
- Creation: 1848-1932
Creator
- Tibbetts, Charles D., 1827-1924 (Person)
- Carson, Susie B. (Person)
- Cunningham, W.N. (Person)
- Fuller, P. A. (Person)
- Hahn, Virginia K. (Person)
- Power, W. H. (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Conditions Governing Use:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Biographical Information:
Extent
0.01 Linear Foot
Arrangement of Materials:
Divided by genre, then chronologically.
Custodial History:
The papers were located in the old Digges House in Mathews, Virginia.
Acquisition Information:
Gift.
Subject
- Cunningham family (Family)
- Stover family (Family)
- Tibbetts family (Family)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Charles D. Tibbetts Papers
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: Anne T. Johnson, Special Collections Assistant.
- Date
- 2008-12-09
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The collection description/finding aid is written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository