.75 Linear Feet, 8 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (flat box, 3 1/2 in.)
Creator
Eskey family
Creator
Orum family
Creator
McCaffery family
Location
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Orum, Eskey, and McCaffery Family Papers, A&M 4381, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
The Orum family lived in what is now the United States in the early 1700s. The Orum and Eskey families lived in Sherrard,
in Marshall County, WV, from the early 1800s through the early 1900s, when some family members moved to the Pittsburgh area.
The Orum family farm in Sherrard was sold around 1929. The McCaffery family came to the US in 1851 and settled in Sherrard,
where one member married into the Eskey family. Ruth Eskey Rice (nee Orum) was involved in the collection of family history,
and her daughter Jane Leigh Rice Lassiter compiled this collection and created many of the notes within it that explain the
family history and collection materials.
Family papers of the Orum, Eskey, and McCaffery families of Sherrard, West Virginia. The collection includes books, genealogy
pages from Ancestry, tax documents, correspondence, family photographs, realia, etc. Correspondence includes letters from
two Eskey family members who served in World War I. Realia (artifacts) includes a three-star blue star service lapel pin from
World War I and a knitted mitten. Most of the photographs are labeled with the name(s) of the subject(s).
Orum, Oram, Orem Descendants in America (157 page self-published book in typescript)
1979English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Orum Family Genealogy [includes Ruth Eskey Orum; also includes Henrietta Eskey Orum funeral program]
1948, 2018English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Eskey Family Genealogy
2018English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
McCaffery Family Genealogy
2018English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
My Old Virginia Home , a Poem by Milton Eskey (bound volume)
1898English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Ellsworth Eskey WWI Letter and Photo
1918English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
James Eskey WWI Letter and Photos
1918English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8a
Photos of Eskey Family Members in WWI (3 items)
1918English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8b
Portrait Photo of Joseph Byron Orum, WWII Pilot, in Head Gear
ca. 1944
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Eskey WWI Pin and Clipping (blue star service lapel pin with three stars; the clipping shows photos of the three Eskey brothers
who served in World War I)
ca. 1918English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Eskey/Orum Deeds, etc.
1887/1896, 1920-1930English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
Property Taxes for Eskey Lands
1923-1992English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
Eskey and Orum Family Clippings
ca. 1917-1970sEnglish.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
Record Book Containing Meat-Curing Recipe
late 1800sEnglish.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
Margaret M. Eskey Photo and Knitted Mitten
ca. 1880sEnglish.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15a
Laura Orum Photo and School Essay (photo is a carte de visite; essay written at age 12 in 1883)
ca. 1883English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15b
Photos of Samantha Eskey Brown (2 photos, one is a carte de visite)
ca. 1870s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15c
Photos and Clipping (Obituary) of Henrietta Eskey Orum (includes four photos, including one where she is dressed in her brother's
clothes).
ca. 1904-1948
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16a
Cabinet Card Portraits of Schofield, McCaffery, Eskey, and Associated Family Members (taken in Wheeling, WV studios)
ca. 1880s-1890sEnglish.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16b
Cabinet Card Portraits of McCaffery and Eskey Family Members (taken in Wheeling, WV studios)
ca. 1880s-1890s
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1a-1b
Mounted Photographs
ca. 1880s-1920sEnglish.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Photo Postcards of Henrietta Lee Eskey (two are class portraits with the children she taught in Sherrard, WV)
ca. 1906English.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3a-3b
Photo Prints, etc.
1900s-1940sEnglish.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Photos
ca. 1917-1930sEnglish.
Books Box: 3
Ray's New Practical Arithmetic (used by Etta Eskey to teach school in Sherrard, WV)
1905English.
Books Box: 3
A Golden Treasury for the Children of God (gift from William P. Eskey to Marie Ann Cooke Eskey in 1858)
1746English.
Mixed Materials Box: 3
"The Book of Ruth" (photo album of Ruth Eskey Orum)
ca. 1917-1940English.
Text Box: 3 Folder: 1
Broadside Advertising Public Sale of Farm Goods (Clyde Atkinson Orum was selling the contents of Orum farm after the passing
of his parents)
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