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0663: Anna Lee Musgrave Tallman Collins Papers, 1909-1997, Marshall University Special Collections

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia, resident. Papers relate to the Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter NSDAR and local history materials about Mason Co., West Virginia, including black and white photographs of Mason County historical highway markers.

0310: Ball Family Genealogy, 1765-1979, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a copy of a manuscript delineating the Ball family genealogy beginning with John Ball (1765-1825) in Culpeper, Virginia and Kanawha, Virginia. Included are scanned newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera, and a note regarding Ball descendants’ eligibility for DAR and SAR.

0260: Alice Blondina Carder Sauer Papers, 1855-1979, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is split into two series: Carder and Sauer family materials as well as materials related to Alice’s work in the Point Pleasant Chapter of the WVDAR. Some materials, such as the newspaper clippings and to a lesser extent correspondence, are mixed DAR and family materials. In box order, the collection contains the following:

Newspaper clippings cover subjects related to the Carder and Sauer family as well as Alice’s participation in the NSDAR. NSDAR participation focuses on the coordination of local and state events surround the bicentennial of the Battle of Point Pleasant as well as local history events. …

0210: Beatrice Malcom Ruffner Papers, 1940, Marshall University Special Collections

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Photographic reproductions of original documents, including copies of D.A.R. lineage papers, family histories, and genealogical research. Family names include Ruffner, Hull, Gaines, Ankrom.

0160: Point Pleasant, Wv Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter, Nsdar Papers, 1925-1975, Marshall University Special Collections

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Membership lists, registrar's reports, photographs; and a report on prize-winning Bicentennial activities, addendum from the Point Pleasant, West Virginia Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter of the NSDAR.