Scope and Contents Papers relating to property owned by Anne Haughwout Cutler, of the Bucktrout-Braithwaite family in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cutler was the great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Bucktrout, a cabinetmaker from London who moved to Williamsburg in 1766, where he opened a business making funeral coffins. Upon the death of her mother, Virginia Braithwaite Haughwout, Cutler inherited several properties in the Williamsburg area. In 1954, Cutler helped create with other family members the...

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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.

Content Description 6 page letter from Elizabeth L. Ewell to her brother, Benjamin Ewell dated November 24, 1876. The entirety of the letter consists of her opinions regarding a monument for her mother's grave at the William and Mary burial site. A transcribed copy is stored with the letter. Accompanying the letter is a copy of a news paper article that describes the college grave site. Also in this collection are two photographs of Benjamin Ewell, President of William and Mary. One photograph depicts him...

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...