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Preferred Citation

James Lewis Woodville. Receipts, 1848-1853. Accession 37819, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Purchased 23 June 2000.

Biographical/Historical Information

James Lewis Woodville was born 8 Jan. 1820 in Augusta County, Virginia to James L. and Mary S. Lewis Woodville. He first attended the University of Virginia and then the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1844. Shortly thereafter he opened a medical practice in Botetourt County, Virginia. While there he also met and married Mary Ann Breckenridge (b. 1831) on 29 Sept. 1852. The couple had at least 6 children.

At the start of the Civil War, Woodville volunteered his medical services to the Confederate Army. He served first in the 7th Virginia Infantry, and also at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs Hospital near Blacksburg, West Virginia. Near the war's end Woodville was transferred to the Huegonot Springs Hospital near Richmond, Virginia. Following the war Woodville moved to Sweet Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia and began a new medical practice. He died there on 14 Aug. 1904.

Scope and Content Information

This collection includes receipts, 1848-1853, for the hire and purchase of slaves by James Lewis Woodville (1820-1904), a physician from Botetourt County, Virginia. Includes: a) receipt, 15 Feb. 1848, issued to Woodville by Thomas C. Lancaster (1811-1884) as notice of payment for the hire of a slave in 1847; b) receipt, 24 Oct. 1848, issued to Woodville by William M. Payne as notice of payment for the hire of a slave; c) receipt, 14 Jan. 1852, issued to Woodville by Samuel Noffsinger (1787-1869) as notice of payment for the hire of a slave in 1850; d) receipt, 28 Dec. 1853, issued to Woodville by John Milton Maiden (1818-1913) in payment for the purchase of a slave. See related material: Williams and Woodville, M.D., Account Book, 1849 (Local Government Records Collection).