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Bucktrout Funeral Home Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1997.22
Scope and Contents
8 volumes of burial records, 1916-1945 of the Bucktrout Funeral Home:
Vol 1 Aug 1916-Nov 1920
Vol 2 Nov 1920-Jan 1925
Vol 3 Jan 1925-July 1929
Vol 4 July 1929-Sept 1932
Vol 5 Sept 1932-Dec 1935
Vol 6 Dec 1935-Apr 1938
Vol 7 Apr 1938-May 1942
Vol 8 May 1942-Feb 1945.
Bucktrout Funeral Home Records in Swem Library’s microforms area, 4 reels, call number F234 .W7 B83.
Dates:
1916-1945
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Richard Manning Bucktrout Daybook and Ledger
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1997.15
Scope and Contents
The following description is from the preface to the digital version of the book and was written by Terry Meyers. Daybook; 1850-1866; of Richard M. Bucktrout, merchant and mortician at Williamsburg, Va. Richard Manning Bucktrout's meticulous entries in his Daybook and Ledger form a diary, a detailed account of daily life and death in a small, but historically important, Virginia town for sixteen years before, during, and briefly after the Civil War....
Dates:
1850-1866
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Bucktrout-Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00142
Scope and Contents
Papers of Richard M. Bucktrout, merchant and mortician in Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence, receipts, financial papers, records of soldiers killed at the Battle of Williamsburg and legal papers, dated 1855 to 1869. List of deaths at the Seminary Hospital from July to November 1861 in Williamsburg, Virginia and coffins made for soldiers dying in Williamsburg in July-August 1861.The business papers of Sydney Smith, dated 1874 to 1929.Lists names of people...
Dates:
1855-1929
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Kyger Funeral Home Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1988.03 and 2011.568
Scope and Contents
Acc. 1988.03 includes funeral records from Robert W. Kyger's and Robert P. Miller's undertaking business, 1920s to 1940s, Williamsburg. There are 3 volumes as well as nine scrolls. Acc. 2011.568 includes four funeral home ledgers from 1929-1935,1936-1940, 1942-1947, and 1948-1949. There are also order forms for headstones, letters from people unable to pay for the funeral, and various government documents from World War II, including a receipt for tires that the Kyger family gave to the...
Dates:
1920-1949
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center