Scope and Contents Per Thomas Pugh's note, "Bettie Grey is the granddaughter of W.G. Dillard who was the landlord of the farm at Partlow, Virginia in Spotsylvania County, Virginia on which my father worked as a sharecropper during my entire public school education (1923-1934)." They first met at Wallers Baptist Church, Pugh's home church in Partlow, and began corresponding. Pugh writes "It has been a most stimulating and beneficial correspondence which is still continuing."