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0491: Carrie Eldridge Combined Collection, 1678-2014, Marshall University Special Collections

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Carrie Eldridge is a genealogical researcher in Chesapeake, Ohio. This collection contains photocopies of many county record books of the Appalachian areas of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, ranging from the American Revolution until the early twentieth century. It also contains her personal research files on topics related to slavery and the Underground Railroad in Ohio and West Virginia as well as local history topics such as church and family histories.

0505: Webb/Swann Family Records, 1780-1945, Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection contains of two manuscripts bound together, “George Webb Family Deeds Recorded in States of North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia” and “Family Bible of Benjamin Franklin Swann, Louisa Jane Hatfield Swann”. These manuscripts were copied by Marion S. McCullough and Helen B. Webb, both members of the Westmoreland Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. They former manuscript contains transcriptions of six deed records while the latter contains four pages of birth, marriage, death, and other family bible records. An index is included.

0488: Marshall Family Papers, 1987-1988, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of two folders containing materials disparate in subject matter: one consisting of a list of many descendants of John Marshall compiled by Sam Clagg for Marshall University’s Sesqui-Centennial Committee in 1987, another of materials sent to Marshall University by one of these descendants. The folder compiled by Sam Clagg with a list of descendants includes an address for each one. Also included in the same folder are three letters regarding the acquisition of Marvin L. Marshall’s “The Marshall Family.” The other folder title “Marshall Family” two letters between Marshall’s Public Relations office and Mary Paulding Martin. Martin …

0471: Evans Family Records, 1667-1982, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a compilation of family group sheets and pages from an unidentified book from the Genealogical Library of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for the Evans family in West Virginia. Also included is a narrative by Gordon C. Baker titled "John Evans of the Border".

0481: James E. Phipps Papers, 1977-1988, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, orthodontist. Papers pertain to his genealogical research into the Phipps, McComas, Holton, and related families of Lincoln, Raleigh, Boone, and other West Virginia counties.

0476: Samuel Cabell Papers, 1818-1832, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of copies of materials related to Samuel Jordan Cabell found in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. These papers include copies of military bounty land warrants and scrip issued in 1832 as well as a will and some correspondence. Materials created after Cabell’s death are primarily by his son Patrick Henry Cabell. Because these materials are copies, legibility can be limited.

0474: Gill Family Papers, 1807-1988, Marshall University Special Collections

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Cabell County, West Virginia, family from England, ca. 1846. Papers consist of extensive genealogical research conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Gill, including records from Staffordshire, England. Notable are the diaries of emigrant ancestor Joseph Gill, a civil engineer in England and in Cabell County, West Virginia.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Gill Family Papers, 1807-1988 here.

0490: Dorothy Ward Heinrich Typescript, 1988, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of a copy of a typescript with no clear title beyond, “Our Heritage” and “Byrd-Hackworth Family Tree”. The typescript covers the genealogy of the Byrd and Hackworth families of Cabell County, West Virginia, and includes vignettes and photographs of family members in addition to the typical genealogical data.

0460: Jeanette Pemberton Collection, 1793-1990, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection contains materials compiled by Jeannette Pemberton in her life of collecting sheet music, ephemera, and books. The collection contains manuscript and printed sheet music ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1940s as well as fourteen books on a range of topics, mostly English grammar, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Also included are cassette and VHS tapes of interviews between Susan Pavlovic and Jeanette Pemberton as well as ephemera such as event invitations, concert programs, souvenir movie programs. Some books and sheet music have names of individuals from the Adams family as well as other names.

0453: 1860 Census Of Lewis Co., W.Va., Marshall University Special Collections

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Original of records presented to the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Library by Martha Metz and Linda Camp of the Blennerhasset Chapter NSDAR, Parkersburg, West Virginia

0465: Nsdar James Wood Chapter Typescript, 1964, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes transcriptions of the markers found in the Williamstown Cemetery in Williamstown, West Virginia for the dates 1858 to 1924. An index of names is included. This project was undertaken by the James Wood Chapter of the National Society for the Daughters of the American Revolution, located in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

0464: Barbour Co., W.Va. Will Abstracts, 1843-1882, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes abstracts taken from volume 1.5 of a Barbour County, Virginia (later West Virginia) will book for the dates 1843 to 1882. Fields abstracted include name, residence, death and probate dates, and spouse, sons, and daughters, as well as other names mentioned. Also included is an index of wills found in the book.

0459: Campbell Family Genealogy, 1818-1971, Marshall University Special Collections

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Genealogy of Huntington and Monroe County, West Virginia family; includes Ratliff family of Wayne County, West Virginia and Johnson family of Monroe County, West Virginia.

0467: Berlin Basil Chapman Papers, 1942-1980, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection primarily consists of publications by or contributed to by Berlin Basil Chapman. These publications relate to his interests in West Virginia and Oklahoma history, as well as Chapman genealogy. Also included are photographs of Webster Springs High School Alumni and newsclippings about various speeches given by Chapman. Notable in the collection is a microfilm copy of a manuscript titled “Teaching Soldiers American History Under Direction of the War Department, 1943-1944” Secret Papers Revealed, 1978.

0461: Fruth Family Papers, 1616-1980, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection primarily consists of genealogical information about the Fruth family in the form of compiled family records from Germany and American and brief sketch of the history of the family. Other notable materials include copies of the Charleston, West Virginia, “Saucer News”, the “official publication of the saucer and unexplained celestial events research society”, between 1965 and 1968. Also included in the “Campaign material” folder are newspaper clippings and ephemera related to UFOs, Jay Rockefeller’s 1980 WV gubernatorial campaign, other regional campaigns and elections circa 1980, and bumper stickers and clippings related to Bob Fruth’s bid for Sherriff of …

0442: Gill Family Manuscript, 1818-1918, Marshall University Special Collections

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Genealogy manuscript titled `The Gill Family of Flat Rock [Mason County, West Virginia].'

0441: Rev. Garrett Marriage Records, 1879-1912, Marshall University Special Collections

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Marriage records of Rev. James Dolliver Garrett, Wayne Co., W.Va. from 1879 to 1912, transcribed and indexed.

0428: Berkeley Co., W.Va. Typescript, 1777-1816, Marshall University Special Collections

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Photoreproduction of an original typescript (carbon copy) located in the genealogical library of National society Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. Originally donated 1934.

0447: Hallanan Family Papers, 1915-1947, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes physician’s notebooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the Hallanan family. The bulk of the collection is four volumes related to Thomas B. Hallanan’s practice as a physician, including a birth records book for the years 1920 and 1921 for births near Barboursville and McComas and three physician’s notebooks tracking accounts with patients and notes about visits. The four photographs in the collection are unidentified. Newspaper clippings relate to the social and political lives of Walter S. Hallanan, Imogene Hallanan, Thomas Hallanan, and Betty Hallanan.

0412: Nsdar Genealogical Records, 1985-2000, Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection contains a compilation of genealogy and local history materials created or copied by NSDAR members while conducting chapter activities. Materials are primarily focused on Wood and Wayne County deeds, birth, death, and will data, but also includes family Bible records submitted by NSDAR chapter members throughout the state of West Virginia in addition to miscellaneous county records, include deeds, will abstracts, and cemetery records, from around the state.

0423: Ancestor Chart, 1872, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is composed of two pages entitled, “How many ancestors have you?” and contains a list of ancestors (one for each generation and when they were born or died), what rulers in England ruled while each ancestor lived, and how many ancestors you would have each generation for twenty-four generations. The pages were found in William S. Appleton’s “Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton” published in Cambridge in 1868. The pages are undated, and the date is approximated based on the book the pages were found in.

0416: William Vinson Papers, 1985, Marshall University Special Collections

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Photoreproductions of family group sheets compiled by William Jarrell Vinson: "James Vinson and Rhoda Sperry Vinson family : their descendents and related families." Genealogy related to Wayne and Cabell Counties, West Virginia, and Lawrence and Boyd Counties, Kentucky. Related families include Ratcliff and Wilson.

0418: Whittaker-Glanville Family Papers, 1856-1985, Marshall University Special Collections

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Papers consist primarily of diaries, newspaper clippings, correspondence, genealogies and photographs of five families: the Glanville-Carter families of St. Louis, Mo.; the Whittakers of Preble County, Ohio; Dorothy Whittaker Atkins of Huntington, West Virginia.; and the Heacocks of Bucks County, Penna.

A significant part of the collection are the diaries of Annie Heacock, a teacher at the Penn School for freed slaves in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1864-1869. Other diaries include the Civil War diary of John Whittaker, a surgeon in the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Whittaker-Glanville …

0398: Sally Walton Harrison Letter, 1903, Marshall University Special Collections

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Letter (typed) to Mrs. Mary L Philips, Denver, Colorado, discussing the Waltons genealogy and family matters. Also included are photoreproductions of photographs of Mrs. Harrison and her children.

0397: Webb Family Bible Records, 1824-1953, Marshall University Special Collections

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Bible record containing genealogical information on Webb, Eaton, Kinder, Lasley, Summers, Jopling and Mattox families of Mason and Putnam Counties, West Virginia; Boyd County, Kentucky; and Gallia County, Ohio.

0407: Marjorie Austin Smith Papers, 1950-1984, Marshall University Special Collections

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Collection consists of three-ring binders containing documents, newspaper clippings, ephemera and correspondence related to Mrs. Smith's extensive genealogical research. Extensive genealogical material concerning Austin, Rhoades, Gillespie, Prose, Smith, Graham, Spencer, and Bybee families, as well as related families. Geographical areas include Lawrence and Meigs County, Ohio, and Mason County, West Virginia.

0385: Peters Family Papers, 1800-1981, Marshall University Special Collections

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Genealogical materials relating to a family from Wyoming and Fayette counties, West Virginia.

0379: Alma Nease Noble Papers, 1861-1981, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, educator; Marshall University French professor, 1942-1969, Morris Harvey College, Charleston, West Virginia, 1969-1972. Papers include teaching materials; class notes as an undergraduate at Wittenberg College and a graduate student at Ohio State University; drafts and notes of her dissertation; and family papers relating to Warren County, Ohio, and New Vienna, Ohio.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Alma Nease Noble Papers, 1861-1981 here.

0377: Mccomas-Mckendree-Henderson Family Papers, 1875-1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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Cabell and Kanawha County, West Virginia, families. Photographic reproductions of correspondence among family members describing women's life in the West during the 1870's and 1880's. Unpublished family history includes description of childhood in St. Albans, West Virginia, 1900-1910.

0374: Harvey And Beulah Mobley Manuscript, 1757-1957, Marshall University Special Collections

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Manuscript entitled, `Thomas Hannan and descendants,' covering from 1757 to 1957, with family group sheets, transcriptions of wills and deeds, and addenda.