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Isabella H. Harrison, Baltimore, to [?], 1865 November 2
File — Box 2: Series id82830, Folder: 117
Identifier: id87349
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Correspondence from Mr. Cross; need for sister Margaret "to see Mr. Chew about Mr. Mason's property"; visit of Randolph and Shirley Harrison; goods stolen from Brandon during the war; Mr. Dulton's return of a family Bible; plants and flowers at Brandon; Negroes at North Wales and Broadneck who "wish to occupy the soil"; mention of the Freedmen's Bureau; possble sale of Westover. 4 pp. ALS.
Dates:
1865 November 2
Scott (Elizabeth S. Ewell), at Ewells, James City County, to her aunt, Elizabeth S. Ewell, at Georgetown, D.C., 1872 November 25
Item — Box 2, Folder: 16, Object: 14
Identifier: id180991
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Will make a copy of entries in family bible; thanks her for the offer of calico; fears she will die; feels she should be reconciled to having a second child.
Dates:
1872 November 25
Owens Family, 1940 and 1951
File — Box 12: Series id246768, Folder: 6
Identifier: id253883
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Carbon copoy of a report entitled "Owens-Grubbs and Allied Families of Virginia and Kentucky" with a genealogical chart compiled by and given by Lockwood Barr of Pelham Manor, New York. November 1940. 50 pages. Typescript of family records in an "Owens Bible" and photostat negatives of birth, marriage, etc. entries in the family Bible of the Ownes family, owned by Walter Daughtey Owens, Williamsburg, Virginia. Some or all of the above Bible entrees is a gift of John H....
Dates:
1940 and 1951
Wood Family, 1965, undated
File — Box 15: Series id246768, Folder: 18
Identifier: id254111
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Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping. Notes from the Family Bible of William Wood, born 1806. Transcripts of legal documents of the Woods Family of Virginia. Handwritten and typed notes of the Wood Family, beginning with William Wood who married Elizabeth Duncan. Bound report "Notes on the Wood Family in Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties of Virginia and Pasquotank County, North Carolina also Related Families" by William Thomas Wood of Norfolk, Virginia. February 5, 1965. Mss. Acc....
Dates:
1965, undated
Thomas Walker Gilmer, Richmond, Virginia, to Ann E. Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 January 5
Item — Box 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131093
Scope and Contents
Relates his meeting with her relative, Miss Baker; wishes she was with him; complains of his ill health; discusses the purchase of a family Bible; asks whe she has not written. 3 pp. ALS.
Dates:
1830 January 5
Isabella H. Harrison, Baltimore, to [?], 1865 November 1
File — Box 2: Series id82830, Folder: 116
Identifier: id87348
Scope and Contents
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"General Lee's war hat"; news about various friends; General Graham's expedtion to Brandon; meeting between Shirley & Randolph Harrison & a Nothern woman who had some pieces of music from Brandon; Negroes "at N. Wales and Broadneck who desire to retain the land"; possibility of returning to Brandon; enclosed is a copy of a letter from S.A. Dulton from Ashford, Conn., re a family Bible. 4 pp. ALS.
Dates:
1865 November 1
Series 5: Scrapbook, circa 1860-1890
Series
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Scrapbook of mostly newspaper clippings from mid to late 1800's. Page 15 has an article, "A Yankee's description of Williamsburg." Page 66 has a clipping, "The Old Garden" by Elizabeth J. Galt. Page 155 has an article about lightning striking the home of Beverly S. Scott, son-in-law of Benjamin Ewell. Some handwritten poems and many poems in the newspaper clippings. Ewell Family Bible, signed by Thomas Ewell. 1810, published by Williams and Whiting. Family records are in the center of the...
Dates:
circa 1860-1890
Genealogy - General, 1870, 1896-1941
File — Box 10: Series id78287, Folder: 22
Identifier: id80631
Scope and Contents
Notes, correspondence and copies of documents relating to the Grigsby and Galt Families. Includes notes on the Whitehead Family. Other notes on collateral families of Scervant, Ware, Marston, Finch, McPherson, Silvester, and others. Includes a reprint of the 1863 obituary of Captain Reuben Grigsby from the Richmond Enquirer; 1896 article from the Central Presbyterian on the Old Stone Church in Lewistown, Virginia with a mention of Reverend Benjamin Grigsby, the father of Hugh Blair Grigsby...
Dates:
1870, 1896-1941
Thomas Walker Gilmer, Washington, DC, to Ann E. Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1843 February 5
Item — Box 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: id131909
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Reports that although the doctor treated him, he does not feel much better; states that he will change doctors if he does not get relief in a week to ten days; wishes that she would take up Christianity so that "we would then be unitied for eternity as well as time;" discusses the virtue of being a Christian; wonders "why does not my wife, my dear wife make a profession of religion?;" preaches at her on the necessity to accept Christ; asks her to read a chapter in their family Bible before...
Dates:
1843 February 5
A-D
File — Box 17: Series id246783, Oversize_Folder: 1
Identifier: id246783
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Item 1: Arab Tribes, undated
One chart entitled "A Genealogical Table of the Tribes of the Genuine Arabs, descended from Kahtan or Joktan" with Vol. XVI, page 267 on top of page. One chart entitled "A Genealogical Table of the Tribes of the naturalized Arabs, being the Descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham by a Daughter of Modad the Jorhamite with Vol XVI, page 268 on top of page. They are from an unknown publication and possibly printed on rag paper.Item 2: Bassett...
Dates:
1880-2001
Correspondence, 1924-1926
File — Box Small Collections Box 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: id45130
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Letters from W.H. Power to heirs, possible heirs and lawyers concerning the estate of Charles B. Tibbets. April 14, 1924. Letter to Miss Susie B. Carson in Concord, Virginia from W.H. Power, Counselor-at-Law in Phoebus, Virginia, about the death and funeral of her Uncle, Charles B. Tibbets, April 15, 1924. Telegram to P.A. Fuller of Fullers Hotel in Phoebus, Virginia from Mrs. Virginia B. Hahn in Kansas City, Missouri acknowledging his telegram about the death of her Uncle...
Dates:
1924-1926
Ellie Adele (Williams) Broome (1870-1950), 1896-1950
File — Box 3: Series id146626; Series id146778; Series id147248, Folder: 2
Identifier: id146630
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Papers of Ellie Adele Williams of Richmond, Virginia who married William Theodore Broome of New York. Her parents were Harriet Jean Talbott and Richmond LeRoy Williams and grandparents were Caroline Moore Benson and Charles Talbott. Mother of Ellie Williams Broome and Talbot Dornin Broome. June 15, 1896 certificate for membership in the Richmond Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, as Ellie A. Williams. Newspaper clippings of Ellie Adele Williams marriage to William Theodore Broome...
Dates:
1896-1950