Jones Memorial Library Family Files

Items

• "Letter to Samuel M. DUNCAN...From Thomas WHITNEY...[concerning] Dr. Rowland TAYLOR and His Descendants"

  Photocopy of original; Samuel M. DUNCAN of Nicholasville, Kentucky; Thomas WHITNEY, Rector of St. Botolphs Parish, Hadley, England
• "Letter Written to the Rev. Charles H. RYLAND Richmond, Virginia, May 8, 1878 by H[enry]. H[erbert]. H[ARRIS]."

  Photocopy of original
• "Letter: to John ANTHONY, Lone Oak, Va., from C. B. BRYANT, Martinsville, Va., July 22, 1906"

  Discusses letters of 1764, 1780, 1778 concerning MOORMAN, CLARK, CANDLER families; included with letter is newspaper clipping "Candler's Mountain Site of Early Quaker's Home," THE NEWS, Lynchburg, 29 March 1959
• "Letters and Notes"
• "Letters from Mother, 1835-1844"
• "Letters of Colonel John Dudley DAVIS Written to the wife of Doctor Micajah PENDLETON, his sister"

  Typescript copies of originals, done ca.1931; includes original typescript; includes obituary of John Dudley DAVIS (1871)
• "Letters of James Peter WILLIAMS: 1861-1865"

  Born in Halifax County, VA; died in Lynchburg, VA
• "Letters of William J. GRIGGS (Co. A 42d Va Inf CSA) to George GRIGGS 1861"

  Typescript copy of letters from William J. GRIGGS to his father, George GRIGGS, of Lynchburg
• "Letters to General LEE after the War"

  Reprinted from THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 64 No. 1 (January) 1956
• "Letters written by Col. John Dudley DAVIS to his sister the wife of Dr. Micajah PENDLETON"

  Photocopy of original typescript
• "Letters written by Walter HENDERSON of Lynchburg, Virginia 1813- 1887"

  Photocopies of original letters
• "Letters...Concerning Graves of Charles CARTER and Wife..."

  Includes photostatic copy of letter GAMBLE to ROBERSON
• "Lieut.-General Alexander DIROM (1757-1830)"

  Photocopy of article reprinted from the TRANSACTIONS OF THE DUMFRIESHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, Vol. 35; includes chart showing ancestry and descendants of Alexander DIROM
• "Life and Ministry of J. Mack FRANKLIN, The"

  Includes manuscript and copy, letter. Typed manuscript has birth date of 1873; letter has birth date of 1883
• "Life Influence and Services of James Jones WHITE, The"

  Professor of Greek, W&L University; married daughter of Col. Samuel McDowell REID; at death of Robert E. LEE, was made acting President of the University
• "Life of Brigadier General John McCAUSLAND"

  Photocopy of article appearing in WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY, Vol. IV, 1943
• "Life of Edith Allen FRANKLIN (1883-1970) Wife of Rev. J. Mack FRANKLIN (1873-1937)"
• "Life of Major Christopher Valentine Winfree"
• "Life of Matthew Fontaine MAURY, The"

  Address entered into CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol 103 No. 13 (24 January) 1957, pp. A432-433, by Watkins M. ABBITT; address originally given at LEE-JACKSON-MAURY dinner meeting of the Old Dominion Chapter, U.D.C., Lynchburg, Virginia, 9 January 1957
• "Life of Naomi WISE: True Story of a Beautiful Girl"

  Other articles in vol. include: "Life of Andrew JACKSON;" "The First English Baby in America;" "The Lost Little Girl;" "Mrs. David CALDWELL, a Heroine of '76;" "A Tory Beauty" [All historical fiction?]
• "LINCOLN LORE"

  Includes: "LINCOLN Lore - Campbell County records - 1820"; "HANKS- BROOKS Marriage Bond - 1792"; "Suit in Court - 1784"
• "Lineage of Josephine Murrell THORNHILL from Sieur Jacob AMONET, 1660-1725: Huguenot"

  Application information for Huguenot Society; photocopy of original
• "Lineage of the Children of David Fletcher Creasy…"
• "Lineage of the Children of Ruth Wynetta Stoke Creasy"
• "Lineage of the Children of William Fletcher Creasy"