Martha Spencer Historical Research CollectionWLU.Coll.0513

Martha Spencer Historical Research CollectionWLU.Coll.0513


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Repository
Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives
Identification
WLU.Coll.0513
Title
Martha Spencer Historical Research Collection 1812-1975
Quantity
.75 Linear Feet
Creator
Spencer, Martha
Language
The collection is in English.

Administrative Information

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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Martha Spencer Historical Research Collection, WLU Coll. 0513, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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General

Related to RHS COLL 0095 Martha Spencer research papers.

General

Located Shelf 07-01-08.

Container List

Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 1
Ackerly family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 2
Advertisements, medical and cures
1850-1874
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 3
Alfred Ayres
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 4
Beechenbrook
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 5
Blain family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 6
Larry Bland, In memoriam
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 7
Brownsburg, Virginia
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 8
Buffalo, Rockbridge County sleigh ride
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 9
Civil war
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 10
Anderson Dandridge
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 11
Ralph Daves
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 12
George West Diehl obituary
1975
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 13
Isaac Edmondson family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 13
David Evans family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 14
Fair, Rockbridge County
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 15
Freedman's Savings and Trust company
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 16
Genealogy of miscellaneous families, from Ancestry, etc.
Scope and Contents

Families included are as follows: Beach, Douty, Drummond, Ford, Goodbar, Hickman, Higgins, Hollaway, Langhorne, Lackey, Little, McFadden, Martin, Mitchell, Moyers, Pullen, Ridgway, Scott, Sensabaugh, Smith, Spencer, Toman, Walker

Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 17
Gilmore family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 18
Benjamin Gorrell
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 19
Greenlee family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 20
Gypsy Hill Park
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 21
John W. Harper
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 22
Jedediah Hotchkiss
General

Martha Spencer was very interested in Jedediah Hotchkiss.

Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 23
House surveys, WPA, Rockbridge County
Scope and Contents

Includes houses as follows: A. D. Campbell, Robert D. Firebaugh, Samuel B. Fuller, John Gibson, H. T. Lindsay, and William J. Wilson.

Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 24
Maud Houston
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 25
Humphries family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 27
Indians, Rockbridge county
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 28
Jones family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 29
Lakeside, Salem, Virginia
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 30
Lexington Presbyterian Church, Stonewall Jackson class
1874, 1941
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 31
Lexington, Virginia, municipal officers
1871
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 32
McCampbell family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 33
McNeel family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 34
MacCluer family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 34
"Marlbrook," home of Mary Greenlee
General

Also called "Cherry Hill."

Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 35
John Marshall river scouting journey
1812
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 36
Middleton family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 37
Mills, Rockbridge County
Scope and Contents

Mills included are as follows: Campbell-Lyle, Kennedy-Wade, William Painter, and Ramsay.

Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 38
Moffett family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 39
Samuel R. Moore, farm at Kerr's Creek
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 40
Rev. James Morrison
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 41
Natural Bridge Shot Tower
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 42
Neriah Presbyterian Church
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 43
North River Navigation
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 44
Paxton family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 45
Poague family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 46
Pole family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 47
Powers family
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 48
Revolutionary war, Rockbridge county
Mixed Materials Box 1 folder: 49
John C. Rodenizer
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 50
Saville family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 51
Schools, Rockbridge County
1876-1943
Scope and Contents

Included as follows: public schools in the Natural Bridge District, the County School Board, ungrammatical grammar, County school teachers, honor roll in the Lexington Public Schools, promotions in the Grammar School, and a photocopy of a group photo of the West Lexington school, around 1943.

Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 52
George Washington Scott family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 53
Smiley family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 54
Spencer family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 55
Swink family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 56
Topping family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 57
Toys, early, photos DAR calendar
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 58
Tyler family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 59
VMI march, written by Billy Goforth
1936
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 60
Cornelia Washington family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 61
White family
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 62
Wilson Springs hotel
Mixed Materials Box 2 folder: 63
Women, history
1910, 1912