Jones Memorial Library Family Files

Items

• "Bible Records of the McDANIEL-STEPTOE-NOLAN Families"

  Includes photocopies of bible records and typescript copies; includes families of McDANIEL, ROBINSON, CRENSHAW, HOBSON, CHEATWOOD, GOFF, GLASS, CUNNINGHAM, REYNOLDS, HUGHES, HOUCK, NAPIER, COLLINS, STEPTOE, BLANKENSHIP, BARNARD, HOLLIS, CALLAWAY, NOLAN, JORDAN, KECK, MAHANES, PARTLOW, CHRISTIAN
• "Bible Records: Bedford County Virginia 1764-1957"

  Includes photocopies of records and typescript copies; includes families of DEBO, FIELD, HANCOCK, HEWITT, JOHNSON, MILLER, NICHOLS, TURNER
• "Bible Records: The Family of James Parker GARLAND (born 24 April 1780) and his wife Katurah STONE (born 25 Nov 1788-died 7 June 1827)"

  Includes photocopy of original record and typescript copy; includes families of GARLAND, SLAUGHTER, STONE, BROWN, WATTS, BRODNAX
• "Bible Records: Winston and Catherine Gregory PURVIS, Nelson County; Osborne Winston and Georgie E. PURVIS, Albemarle County"
• "Billy KNIGHT Family, The"

  Photocopy of original
• "Biographical sketches of Elder William CREATH, a Calvinist Baptist Preacher of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and His Family"

  Reproduced by William Fontaine CREATH in 1970; second copy a photocopy of the 1970 reproduction
• "Biography of Granville M. Read"
• "Biography of Julian Stanley WISE"

  Photocopy of original; born in Roanoke, VA, son of Robert Samuel WISE and Marcella HIMES; organized first volunteer Life Saving Crew in the world (in Roanoke VA)
• "Birth of George WASHINGTON"

  "An Address...Before a Joint Session of the Congress of the United States held on February 22, 1927, together with the Proceedings and Program of Exercises". "69th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Document No. 249"
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Photocopy
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Grocer, warehouseman. Includes newspaper articles, typescript
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Lynchburg's only female dentist; maintained her office for private practice of dentistry for more than 50 years. Includes newspaper clippings, programs
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopies of photographs, manuscript notes; also includes MT. OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH: 80TH ANNIVERSARY, which includes history of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Amherst County, Virginia
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes program: 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DIAMOND HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, 12 May 1957; newspaper clippings, obituary
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes resume, newspaper clippings
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopies of photograph of Humbles Hall, first office building for negroes on Fifth Street; purchased and donated land for Virginia Theological Seminary and Colege site; a founder and trustee of the True Reformers Society, an insurance company
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes programs, obituary notices
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes copies of photographs
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes copies of photographs, obituary notices, magazine article
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Article
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopies of photographs, marriage and death records, newspaper clippings
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopy of brochure for University of Pennsylvania exhibition; proclamation from Mayor of Lynchburg. First graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1897; first black to complete the Virginia State Board of Veterinary Medicine
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings, brochures
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopies of programs, magazine articles, photographs; editor, teacher, lecturer, historian
• "Black Focus Biographies"

  Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings and photograph