Archive Collection

 

Collection Acc # Dates Size
A      
Ancell Collection [William Guy Ancell, Staunton City Manager, 1946-1948] 2011.0032 1946-1948 1 box::  copies of scrapbook pages; newspaper clipping collection
Augusta County’s First Fatal Air Crash 421 November 9, 1930 photograph
John Allen and the Founding of Ann Arbor 418 1962 1 folder
Arbor Hill Church of the Brethren 762 1916-1972 1 brochure
Jacob Argenbright Ledger [Middlebrook] 396 ca. 1830 ledger and prescription slip
Armistead Collection 239 1970 1 folder; booklet; photograph
Mrs. Armistead’s personal description of 3 Staunton homes:  310, 322, 324 East Beverley St. 131 undated 1 folder
Augusta County Currency 2, 514 25 May 1862 1 folder (4 items)
Augusta County Emancipations and Manumissions 2011.0037 1745-1879 spiral bound book with index, 1745-1879 [publication of the Augusta County Genealogical Society]
History of the Augusta County Library, 1939-1976 323 1939-1976 4 pages
Augusta County Line of Descent (used by J. R. Hildebrand) 267 1973 1 folder
Augusta County Memorial about Slavery 378 1832 1 folder [12 page handwritten document]
Augusta County Road Orders 818 1745-1769 1 book
List of Additional Augusta County Taxpayers 192 1797 1 folder
History of the Augusta Street Methodist Church [African-American congregation] 357 1865-1943 1 folder
Augusta Street Methodist Church 100th Anniversary Booklet 802 2008 pamphlet of 28 pages
B      
Baker Heritage Museum Collection 2011.0028 early twentieth century 2 postcards of early 20th century downtown Staunton including the New Virginia Hotel and Main Street
Ballard Collection [sketch of Gen. William E. “Grumble” Jones] 2010.0025 1824-1864 1 booklet
Bell Family Collection 156 1907-1921 5 items, 12 pages
Rebeckah Bell Ledger Financial Records 808 1769-1836 1 paper notebook
Dr. Andreas Bernhard Descendants 214 1977 pamphlet
Bethany-Trinity Lutheran Church History 160 1772-1972 1 folder
Beverley Manor Academy 346 1916 1 folder
Beverley Manor Academy Annuals 725 1912-1916; 1939, 1941 3 file folders
Beverley Manor School District Agreement [with Miss E. Green] 850 1870s 1 folder
Beverley Theatre Letter [re: “colored” shows] 803 1911 1 letter
William Beverly Indenture 740 1749 one page
Edward Blakemore, Jr., Descendants Collection 164 undated book
A. Caperton Braxton Address “The Mountains of West Augusta” 141 1903 1 folder
A. Caperton Braxton, 2 speeches 145 1901, 1903 2 pamphlets
Brownlee Family of the Valley of Virginia 414 1718-1985 2 folders, 94 loose pages
William Brush and Ellen Bush Bonds Families of Virginia and Kentucky 417 1808-1820s 1 folder, 2 transcriptions, data sheets
Elise Curry Brownell Collection [Duncan Curry and the University of Virginia 7 Society] 386 1986 1 folder
Bryant Collection [Old Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery;  Current Events, 1939-1940; Cash family history; Hurricane Camille] 2011.0007 2011 books and booklets; list of graves in Old Providence Stonewall Cemetery; stock breeders table; 20 American track booklets; 3 needlecraft magazines
Patricia Burton, Battle of Point Pleasant 259 1971 supplement for the LawrencevilleAdvertiser
Buzzard Family History 447 1761-1979 1 folder
C      
Duncan Campbell Descendants 183 1974 1 folder
Camp Coolidge Scrapbook 399 1922-1923 scrapbook
Cardiff Coal Company 221 1902-1911 5 cash books and ledger
Cardiff Coal Company 223 1902-1914 3 boxes
“Carry Me Back” (Reminiscences of the Ast family by Mrs. Coghill) 153 1961 1 folder
The Cavalier Songster [songs for the southern public] 444 1865 1 folder
Charles Catlett Collection 297 1923-1942 10 folders
Census, First US:  Heads of Families, 1790 49 1790 book
Lyman Chalkley, Notes for Chalkley’s  Chronicles 270 1748-1793 1 folder
Sam Towler’s Excerpts from Augusta Chancery Drawers 188 to 258 and Other Charts 817 1770-1997 1 book
Charlotte County–Rich Indeed:  Prehistoric to 1979 836 1865-1979 1 book
Churchville Farmers Club 128 1860-1874 1 notebook
Original Members of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia 194 1898-1899 1 folder
Civil War Battles, 1861-1865:  Civil War Battlefields in Virginia, Gettysburg, the Wilderness 2011.0089 undated 2 booklets, 1 book
Civil War Book Collection 2010.0009 undated 10 books, loose-leaf binder
Gladys Bauserman Clem, Methodism in Staunton, 1793-1972 391 1947-1972 1 folder
Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks 163 1888 book
Stanley Cline Collection 799 1848-1881 business ledgers (Brown and Lara); hotel ledgers for American Hotel; The News-Virginian; Knights Templar; prescription book; Central RR ledger
Elizabeth Brooke Cochran thesis, “Staunton–A Social and Statistical Analysis” 179 1934 1 folder
George M. Cochran Collection 805 2005 1 folder:  Perrow Commission; desegregation “Virginia Facing Reality”
Virginia Hodge Armentrout Cohron Collection 127 1824-1954 [bulk 1824-1879] 7 folders (approximately .10 cubic feet)
Bessie Coiner Papers 400 1874-1944 estate papers
Edgar R. Coiner Collection 2011.0082   obituary
Connelly Family Historical Collection 434 1781-1988 1 folder
Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1748-1781  [West Augusta] 356 1984 book
Craig Family Research Notes 48 1823-1896; 1963 book
Craven/McComb Letters [purchase of “quick dump beds”] 387 1986 1 folder
Capt. James S. A. Crawford Family History Collection 196 1974 1 folder
K. Crouch, The Lady’s River 373 1670-1977 1 folder
“The Cultivator” [Albany, NY, agricultural periodical] 129 1842-1843 1 folder
D      
Downs Collection 2010 [Middlebrook; Valley Conservation Council] 2010.0020 1997, 1998 3 items:  booklets and newsletter
Janet and Earl Downs Mill Books Collection [books on Augusta and Rockingham County mills, the Virginia Quilt Museum, and “A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware”] 2011.0010 1997-2003 7 books about mills of Rockingham and Augusta County, Virginia Quilt Museum, and the Rockingham County, Virginia School of Folk Pottery
R. B. Driver Manuscript about Lone Fountain and Churchville [Brookside] 426 1800-1917 1 folder
Dunsmore Business College Collection 2011.0037 1909-1912 report cards, catalogue, withdrawal cards
E      
Economic Development Report Collection [Better Models for Development in the Shenandoah Valley] 2011.0050 2010 1 book
Fitzhugh Elder Photograph 25 1964 one photograph
F      
Fairview Cemetery Project [African-American Cemetery] 2011-0048 undated 1 folder with cd with photos of headstones, cemetery map, brochure, obituaries, church bulletins for funerals of African-Americans of Staunton
Forest Louis Fackler Collection 2010.0016 1757-1996 folder with 3 softbound books and dvd
Mrs. William B. Figgart Collection 235 1814-1968 16 folders
Guy Fisher Collection 150 1862-1932 [bulk 1873-1931] 0.45 cubic feet (1 legal Hollinger box)
M. A. Fitting, The Radford Letters–History of a Virginia Family [biography of John Blair Radford] 848 2007 1 book
Frazier Family History 186 1974 1 folder
Friends of the Staunton Library Collection 804 2006 2 books:  State Historical Markers;  4th Virginia Infantry (1861-1865)
John Fulton Family Bible 212 1978 1 folder
G      
Heinrich Gebhard Descendants 211 1657-1920s 1 folder
Gibbs Collection [photograph of 18 men, founders of Staunton Telephone Company, later CFW and Ntelos} 2011.0006 undated photograph
Floyd Givens Family Notes 721 1919 1 booklet
Joseph Glasgow, Reflections on Early Courts of Augusta and Nearby Counties 59 1928 2 folders, 4 items
Glebe Burying Ground 32 1934 1 pamphlet
G. Glenn gift:  Kentucky in Retrospect; Destruction of Martin’s and Ruddle’s Forts 246 1957-1967 one book and one pamphlet
Glick family genealogy 106 1959 1 book
Ina E. Glick:  Teacher Contract–Augusta School Board 820 1927 1 sheet
Armistead Gordon, Life of the Morning Star: A Story of Sherando 90 1905 novel
Mary C. Gowing, Virginia Beyond the Blue Ridge:  A Pictorial Survey of Western Virginia 182 1974 1 folder
Richard H. Greaves, The Beale Papers [exposure of Beale Treasure myth] 394 1986 1 folder
History of the Greenville United Methodist Church 395 1836-1986 1 folder
H      
Vera Hadley Collection [Stuarts Draft; Amish-Mennonite Communities] 2011.0021 1913-1998 booklet: life of Sam Yoder and pictures of Stuarts Draft area
Jim Hanger Collection [business correspondence, C.P. Bowman and Brothers, Staunton;  H. H. Meyers and Sons, Lexington] 2010.004 2010 Staunton postcard; letter, undated;
Peter Hanger Descendants 206 1977 1 folder
Harmann/Hermann Genealogy Notes 563 2008 4 objects
Harman-Garber Family History 2011.0008 1749-1874 1 book
William Henry Harman Collection 3 1862-1863 1 folder (3 items)
Nellie B. Harris Collection and Genealogy [4 H Club] 727 1891-1892, 1929,1967 1 folder
Rev. William Harris [Wesleyan Female Institute] 200 ca. 1880 photograph
Mrs. Hawke’s Account of the Fourth of July Celebration in Waynesboro 445 1845 1 folder
J.R.Hildebrand 282 c. 1950s 1 cubic ft. (2 legal Hollinger boxes)
John Hiner:  A Man of  the Bullpasture 43 1742-1814 (1966) 1 folder
Hogshead Cemetery Record and Gilkeson Family Bible Record 157 1960 2 folders
Hogshead Letters 783 1848-1855 41 letters on cd
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 811 1857-1858 1 book
J. W. Hopewell Papers [justice of the peace and Augusta County school board] 461 1891-1910 1 folder
Horse Hairs of Little Sorrel and Traveler 226 1861-1865 1 folder, 2 plastic sleeves
Jed Hotchkiss, Augusta County Map (1883) 796 1883 1 map
Jed Hotchkiss, Confederate Military Historical Series, Vol. III 219 undated 1 book
Jed Hotchkiss, Illustrated Historical Atlas of Augusta County 175 1980 book
Jed Hotchkiss and Joseph A. Waddell, Augusta County Atlas (1885) 814 1885 book
Louise Hubbard Hudson Poetry 144 1903 1 folder
Patricia Hunter Collection:  genealogy of “The Whitlocks of Green Co., Kentucky” 2010.0021 undated 1 book
Charles Huppack Collection  [Lee Highway Association] 2011.0013 1919-1934 1 booklet, 1 letter, 1 reprint including letter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Arthur Smith, Lee Highway Association, 1934
William Hutchins of Carolina 522 undated book
H. Hutchinson Dray Token 437 undated 1 folder
W. F. Hyer Collection [Middlebrook General Store] 452 1898 1 folder & 1 box
I      
J      
James Madison University Department of Sociology and Anthropology report on Confederate fortifications on Shenandoah Mountain and Mines, Timbering, and Cattle Raising in Stokesville Area 572 2001 2 books; Clarence R. Geier, Stokesville; Samuel T. Elswick, The Song of Industry
Frank Johnston Collection [Grandma Moses] 2010.0023 1973 book:  Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses
K      
Ken Keller Collection 2011.0005 2011 39 books about Virginia and the Valley
Fannie Bayly King Collection 213 1978 2 folders
King’s Daughters Hospital 312 1928-1957 3 inches
Jefferson Kinney Collection 237 1829-1868 2 inches (3 folders)
William Kinney Letters 9 1839, 1842 1 folder, 2 letters
Krickenberger/Crickenberger/Crittenberger Genealogy 427 1984 1 folder
L      
Mary Ellen Lambert autograph book with postcard and picture 833 1919-1921 1 folder
Landes Family History 156 1961 1 folder
Ledgerwood Family History 220 1937 1 folder
Leonard Family History 462 1745-1991 1 folder
Family Genealogy of Leonar and Related Families 495 1993-1994 1 book
John Lewis Charts and Related Papers 515 1962 chart of descendants, clippings, will
John Lewis Home 271 1978 1 folder, 2 items
John Lewis Memorial Celebration (1962) 47 1962 1 folder, program
John Logan Collection 274 1979 1 folder
Lot’s Wife Publishing Company Collection[ Laten Erwin Bechtel and Susie Brent King, “That’s Just the Way It Was”–A Chronological and Documentary Historyof African-American Schools in Staunton and Augusta County; 1866-1966] 

 

 2011.0020 2010 1 book
History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee [Henkel family] 210 1930 book and folder
M      
John McCae Letter [legislative activities in Richmond; cattle sale] 459 1831 1 folder
Cyrus McCormick Farm Dedication Letters 50 1966 letters
McComb Family History Collection 2011.0060 undated 1 folder
McCutcheon Family Descendants 16 Compiled 1965 for 1750-1964 one 48-page manuscript
McCutcheon Family History 2011.0016 undated 1 book
McFarland and Myerley Letters [letters of recommendation for Supervisor of the Poor] 2012.0009 1890s 1 folder, 2 letters
McNabb and Buckner Families 458 1747-1900 2 folders
Percy C. Manley 331b 1773-1875 3 folders
Manz Collection of Genealogical Materials:  Hodge, Cooke, Thresher, Johnson, Jones, Lewis, Luck 821 undated 1 box, 16 folders
Mary Baldwin College Alumnae Magazine 134 November 1967 1 folder
Richard Mauzy Collection 207 1977 1 folder
George Mayse Letter [to Major J. M. McCue] 482 1873 1 folder
Patricia H. Menk Radio Program on Town Government of Staunton 51 1965 radio program script
Patricia H. Menk, To Live in Time:  The Sesquicentennial History of Mary Baldwin College 815 1992 1 book
Mennonite Historical Bulletin, Vol. 51, no. 3 [Conscientious Objectors in World War II in Grottoes] 449 1990 1 folder
Daniel Metraux Collection [book, Edward Ayers and Carolyn L. Martin, eds., America on the Eve of the Civil War} 2011.0004 1859 l book
Abraham Miller Register 167 1749-1842 one page
Dr. T.C.Miller Journals and Ledgers 227 1904-1924 10 ledgers
William Miller Book Collection:  M. Rhodes, Landmarks of Richmond; Gladys B. Clem, Stories of the Shenandoah 362 1938 2 books
Robert D. Mitchell, Appalachian Frontiers 813 1991 1 book
James Moffett Family of North Mountain 230 ca. 1700 to 1943 1 folder; generation chart
       
Moffetts of Augusta County 497 1700-1933 1 folder
Bob Moody Collection 854 1963, 1968, 2007 2 compact discs of recitals
Jim Morrison Collection [World War II] 2011.0014 1944 honorable discharge certificate
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (“Grandma Moses”) Letter, “My Dear Friends in the South” 97 1949 1 folder
Sesquicentennial History of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church 441 1839-1989 1 book
N      
Schools of the North River Area 216 1859-1876 1 folder
Joe Nutt, Historical Sketches of African-American Churches; Newspapers 724 2001 book; Staunton Dispatch, June 11, 1909;Staunton Spectator, February 14, 1894;American Woman, May 1903
Joseph R. Nutt, III, Collection [Augusta Garden Club; Trinity Episcopal Church] 2011.0001 1947, 1983 books; recipes
O      
Old City Cemetery Museums and Arboretum Collection [Tinbridge Hill, Lynchburg, Virginia; African-American Community] 2011.0031 1920-1970 1 book
P      
Adam Palmer Descendants 304 1770-1864 1 book
Jerry Pangburn Collection [Waynesboro School Annual, promotional brochure, and school certificate] 2011.0018 1930s-1941 1 book, 1 folder
Mrs. S. Patterson and Mrs. L Sterrett booklets on several Presbyterian Churches, Trinity Episcopal Church, the city manage form of government, and the John Lewis Memorial Progam 380 1746-1962 1 folder
Pendleton County [now W.Va.] Assessment List 181 1797 1 booklet
Perry Family Memorabilia 147 1862-1912 4 folders
Photograph Collection, 1880s:  Hendren, Waddell, Peyton, and Creighton Photographs 430 1880s photographs
Phillips Family Notes 473 1725-1992 1 folders
Pleasant View Evangelical Lutheran Church History 229 1979 pamphlet
Point Pleasant Memorial Service [Lord Dunmore’s War Battle 1774] 184 1974 1 folder
Plecher, Sheets, and Stover Notes 513 1688-1987 [1858; 1913-1925] 1 folder
S. Moore Provence Letters [Confederate Soldier] 35 1864-1868 1 folder, 8 letters
Psalms and Hymns [1843 Presbyterian Prayer Book] 187 1843 book
Michael Puglisi, ed., Diversity and Accommodation:  Essays on the Cultural Composition of the Virginia Frontier 829 1986 book
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R      
Robert E. Lee High School Call 365 1924-1928 1 folder
Robert E. Lee Drama Collection 313 1937-1946 5 inches (12 folders)
Robert E. Lee High School Record 355 1930 literary magazine
Robert E. Lee High School Reunion [1944-1948 classes] 451 1990 1 folder
Robertson, Stewart, and Winford Genealogies 450 1990 1 folder
Archibald Gerard Robertson Collection 7 2 March 1874 1 folder (3 items)
S      
History of St. John’s Reformed United Church of Christ [German Reformed Church] 374 1985 pamphlet
Shields Family Records 726 1917 1 folder
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church , 200th Anniversary, Mt. Sidney 723 1820-2002 booklet and photograph
Dean Sarnelle Collection 2011.0009 1869 object:  patent self-closing 1869 diary owned by Willard Cushing of Staunton
Frances Scruby Collection [Mountain Top Inn, Afton Mountain] 2010.0017 1860-1905 photographs; poem commemorative of 150th anniversary of Emmanuel Episcopal Church Greenwood
Shenandoah Valley Rural Heritage Foundation Files, 2001-2007 [Grandma Moses and Gochenour/Yount Houses] 847 2001-2007 9 boxes of files
Shirkey Collection 2010.0027 1875-1901 4 receipts for purchases by N.B and G. B. Rusmissell
James H. Skinner 354 1861-1984 1 folder
Slave Sale Receipt (Oliver Miller from Fr. Scheffer) 816 1848 1 folder
Quentin Smith Collection [Ida Stover, mother of Dwight D. Eisenhower; Mt. Sidney] 2010.0015 1862-1946; 1952 1 folder; Staunton News Leader, 1952
Henry Soane, Progenitor of Thomas Jefferson 368 1985 1 folder of abstracts, 36 pages
Sons of Confederate Veterans Certificate 254 1896 1 folder with certificate
Nancy Sorrells Collection [booklet on Origins of Staunton City Manager Form of Government; 2 100th anniversary of Stonewall Jackson District Boy Scouts of America, and book by Jay Dolan, Fur, Fortune, and Empire] 2011.0011 undated 1 booklet, 1 calendar
South River Ballot Box 840 ca. 1960 object
Spotswood School Directory 201 1970 1 folder
Hugh B. Sproul III Collection 2011.0012 1940 2 photographs of Swoope Mill, June 1940, taken by John O. Crowle, Sr.
Suzanne Stanford Collection [Hermitage Presbyterian Church Cemetery] 2011.0015 1888-2008 booklet
Staunton Church of the Brethren Collection 2011.0073 undated brochure with history of the Staunton congregation of the Church of the Brethren
Staunton Female Seminary [Lutheran school on Fayette Street] 174 1887-1897 1 folder
Staunton High School Announcements 506 1911-1912 1 folder
Staunton High School The Record [school predecessor of Robert E. Lee High School] 328 1920-1924 4 volumes
Staunton High School The Record 348 1925 student literary magazine
Staunton Lodge No. 13 A.F.& A. M.  335 1886 1 folder
Staunton Lodge No. 13 A.F.& A. M. 200th Anniversary 393 1786-1986 1 folder
Staunton Military Academy Advertisement from Harpers Magazine 794 1906 one sheet
Staunton Newspapers: Kennedy Assassination and Eisenhower’s Visit to Staunton in 1960;  Mary Baldwin College Bulletin 382 1960 & 1963 2 folders 
Staunton Rotary Club 250 1970-1971 1 folder
Staunton Weekly News 564 June 7, 1894 newspaper
Stephenson Family History Collection 2011.0063 1745 to the present 1 book
James M. Stout 331 1835-1941 40 cubic feet
Stribling Letters 203 1861-1864 1 folder
Richard D. Stuart Collection [Lorenzo Sibert’s “Virginia Pacificator”–a revolving carbine;  Shenandoah Valley Coal Mining] 2011.0080 undated 1 folder
Stuarts Draft High School Year Book Chatters 728 1922 1 folder
Swoope Family History 108 1802-1874 2 folders
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Tate Family of Wythe County 193 1808- 1 booklet
Temple House of Israel Collection 2012.0019 2009-2011 1 cd with photographs, brochures for synagogue events, obituaries for congregations, typescript diary of Maj. Alexander Hart, founder of the Staunton synagogue; calendar; Jewish Film Festival posters
Templeton Store Daybook, 1860-1862 786 1856-1910 1 bound ledger (241 ppg.),  10 loose items
Patricia Thompson Collection [newsletter of the Clan Kincaid, The Defender] 2010.0022 2005-2010 18 copies of a newsletter
John Todd Collection 835 1886-1929 envelopes, obituary, postcards
Trimble Family 29 1966 2 folders
U      
United Confederate Veterans Camp 438 [list of veterans who were members of S. B. Gibbons Camp] 469 1893-1905 1 folder
V      
Valley Seminary 431 1894-1895 catalogue
Van Pelt Papers 5 1790, 1823 1 folder (3 items)
Virginia Female Institute Catalogues [Stuart Hall] 340 undated 2 volumes
Virginia Female Institute Publications and Student Notes [Stuart Hall] 180 1904-1913 student literary magazines, notebook, clippings
Virginia Living Collection [articles on Swannanoa and Grandma Moses] 2011.0079 December 2011 1 magazine
Virginia Songs [undated, but by local composers in the first half of the 20th century] 138 undated 1 folder, 6 pages
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Wallace Family Bible Entries 218 1832-1923 1 folder
John Wayland, Historic Harrisonburg 355 1949 1 book
Waynesboro Historical Commission Collection [Battle of Waynesboro, early Native Americans, founding of Basic City to Merger, 1890-1923, Anthony Wayne, Waynesboro’s Old Presbyterian Cemetery] 2011.0061 undated 5 booklets
letter describing a fire in Waynesboro [Jane Todd donation] 215 May 27, 1861 one page [copy]
Wehrly and Petry Families Collection 202 1972 1 folder
White House Cottages Collection; obituary for Charles L. Todd 834 ca. 1938 834
Annesa Whitlock Collection [Second Presbyterian Church] 358 1984 2 folders
Whitson Family History 443 1990 1 folder
Why We Are At War [World War I collection] 381 1917 book
Mary N. Wiley Collection 429 1870s; 1961 instructions to road overseers; road tax receipts; appointments of surveyors; ledger; Staunton News-Leader, October 2, 1961
Richard G. Williams, Jr., Stonewall Jackson–the Black Man’s Friend  [Jackson’s “colored” Sabbath school] 812 2006 1 book
Wills Family Collection 209 1968 2 folders
Mary Babb Wilson Collection 241 1978 1 folder
Alice Wood Collection [fictionalized account of health problems and AIDS in a family] 2010.0018 1910-1992 1 folder
Woodrow Wilson General Hospital 358b 1943 2 folders
World War II Military Personnel 406 1940-1950 7 photographs
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Y      
Memories of Jacob Yost [some Civil War] 500 1853-1933 1 folder
James K. Young Collection 139 1773-1966 5 folders
Yount Family History 471 1600-1850 1 folders
Mrs. Glenn E. Yount Collection 140 1908-1928 receipts and estate papers
Z