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0673: Janet Gibbs Reed Papers, 1813-1994, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1998

0673: Janet Gibbs Reed Papers, 1813-1994, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is composed of materials used by Janet Gibbs Reed to create an index to Mason County, Virginia (later West Virginia) death records. Additional materials in the collection are cemetery records from cemeteries in Mason County, Mason County Court orders, and an index to deaths in Pt. Pleasant, WV in the 1970s. The second box contains the completed indexes.


0514: Early Records Of Cabell And Mason Counties, 1802-1933, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1990

0514: Early Records Of Cabell And Mason Counties, 1802-1933, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is composed of one volume of genealogical and family records related to Cabell and Mason Counties. The contents of the volume, according to the table of contents, are as follows: Thornburg Burial Place, Handley Burying Place, David Williams’ Family Bible, Old Wilson Bible, 1802, Churches [Guyandotte Methodist with list of burials], Old Will [Stephen Bartrum], Short History of Beale Family, “The Beal Family” from the Times Dispatch, Richmond, Va., November 6, 1908, History of the Frasher Family by Elder D. K. Frasher, 1933, and Supplementary Records (Frasher Family).


0279: Francis L. Mcculloch Typescript, University Special Collections Jan 1979

0279: Francis L. Mcculloch Typescript, University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a copy of “The Family of Thomas Kincade of Mason County, West Virginia” manuscript by Francis L. McCulloch in 1979. It is an annotated lineage of Thomas Kincade’s descendants.


0196: Mason County, Wv Death Records, 1833-1994, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1977

0196: Mason County, Wv Death Records, 1833-1994, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection contains twelve volumes of death records for Mason County collected from various sources. The time period covered is 1833-1928 and inconsistently between 1981 and 1994.


0192: Mason-Jackson County Census And Marriage Records, 1806-1906, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 1977

0192: Mason-Jackson County Census And Marriage Records, 1806-1906, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is composed of abstracts of county records, including marriage and census records from Jackson and Mason Counties in what was once Virginia and is now West Virginia. The Mason County marriages book also contains lists of undertakers and doctors in the county until 1906.