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Box 3 [X030899291]

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Genealogy Franklin County residences, 1937-1940

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 1-3
Scope and Contents Research of families and Works Progess Administration of Virginia inventories for houses in Franklin County, Pittsylvania County, and Danville, Virginia, including narratives about specific families and their homes. There are too many to list including the birthplace of Jubal Anderson Early, the Wade family home, the Saunders family at "Bleak Hill", the Boone family (relatives of Daniel Boone) at "Old Mansion", the Claiborne family at "Claybrooke", the Callaway family at "Ocalusa" or...
Dates: 1937-1940

Camp Meade, 1919

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, assignments, memos, information and ephemera related to Camp Meade while Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith worked there in 1919.

Dates: 1919

Daughters of the American Revolution, 1929-1938

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, invitations, programs, reports, applications, newspaper clippings related to the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Children of the American Revolution.

Dates: 1929-1938

Martinsville Literary Club, Undated

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith address to the Martinsville Literary Club and guided tour of Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: Undated

Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association and Gutzon Borglum, 1923-2002

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Letters to the Daughters of the Confederacy, articles, brochures, newspaper clippings and other printed material about Gutzon Borglum sculpting a monument on Stone Mountain honoring Robert E. Lee, Jackson Davis and, Stonewall Jackson. Included are some notes on memories of the Civil War and a famous relative, John Wilkes Booth.

Dates: 1923-2002

National Society United States Daughters of 1812, 1921

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes by-laws, applications, programs, invitations, and correspondence which is mostly to announce meeting times and events.

Dates: 1921

Franklin County Historical Society, 1961

 File — Box: 3 [X030899291], Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence, articles, programs, invitations, speeches, and newspaper clippings related to organizations such as Camp Meade, Martinsville Literary Club, National Society United States Daughters of 1812, Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association (and Gutzon Borglum proposal to create a sculpture), the United Daughters of the Confederacy (including Jubal Anderson Early Chapter), the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Virginia League of Women Voters,...
Dates: 1961