Jones Memorial Library Family Files

Items

• "In Memoriam: John M. SPEED"

  Includes tributes from Hustings Court and Circuit Court, Lynchburg; born in Mecklenburg County, son of John H. and Susan M. SPEED; married Catharine Page WALLER; practiced law in Lynchburg with uncle, Charles L. MOSBY
• "In Memoriam: Judge Stephen ADAMS: 1829-1915: Resolutions of the Lynchburg Bar and Court Proceedings"
• "In Memoriam"

  Memorial services held at Randolph Macon College, Ashland; printed in BULLETIN OF RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE, Vol. X, No. 4 (April) 1939
• "In Memoriam"

  Photocopy [bound with obituary of Anna M. CLAYTOR, wife of Robert T. AUNSPAUGH]; daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Lyle GRAHAM, born in Bedford County; wife of Robert Mitchell CLAYTOR
• "In Memoriam"

  Daughter of Judge David E. and Sarah B. SPENCE
• "In Memory of Frank Padget"

  Photocopy of article from VIRGINIA CAVALCADE; includes newspaper clippings
• "Information on Thomas Cochran"
• "Ink-Stained Fingers Reach for a Pencil: Carter GLASS Lynchburg's Most Prominent Citizen"

  History theses presented at Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia; an examination of the influence of GLASS on local politics
• "Inscriptions from the Tombstones, Private Graveyard, Off of [sic] Timberlake Road"
• "Iron Initiative for the Commonwealth: the Life and Times of Francis Browne DEANE, Jr."
• "IRVINS of Hat Creek and Their Descendants, The"

  Photocopy of original typescript; includes families of IRVIN, McELROY, SOUTH, TUCKER, HOLT, RODGERS, BOYD, CLARK, ASHER
• "ISBELL Family History"

  Photocopy of original; includes letter and handwritten notes
• "ISBELL/FERGUSON Family compiled from "Buffalo Ridge Cherokee"

  Includes: ISBELL, FERGUSON
• "Ivy Cliff" and the Brown Family
• "JACKSON Bible Record"

  Photocopy of original; includes families of JACKSON, DIROM
• "Jacob DOUGLASS Family: DOUGLASS Notes"

  Photocopy of original; includes abstracted court records
• "Jacob E. YODER: Lest We Forget"

  Born in Pennsylvania, came as missionary teacher to Lynchburg in 1866 to work in Freedmen's schools; married 1871 Anna Frances WHITAKER; continued missionary school until 1871 when public school system was established
• "Jacob Straley and Descendants"

  Misc. Articles
• "James A. BLAND, Composer of 'Carry Me Back to Old Virginia'"

  Photocopies of Congressional Record, article, newspaper clipping; includes information on state song revisions
• "James M. BOBBITT"

  Born at Warrenton, NC; son of William Henry BOBBITT; moved to Lynchburg ca. 1871; married Alice Mary Amber CARROLL. Bound with article on "William S. CARROLL"
• "James McGruder BOYD Family"
• "James Parker GARLAND Family"

  Photocopy
• "James WILKINSON Family"

  Photocopy of original; includes families of WILKINSON, WILSON
• "JAMESONs of Albemarle County, Virginia"

  Includes "Charlotte County Virginia JAMERSON Line"
• "Jefferson DAVIS in Prison"

  Article based on Captail TITLOW's letter to his son, 1891, describing the shackling of DAVIS at Fort Monroe in 1865