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Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1974-003
Abstract
This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.
Dates:
1779 - 1984
Martha L. Johnson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-065
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of the family of Martha L. Robinson Johnson, nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. The collection consists largely of correspondence to Johnson from various family members and friends, providing a chronicle of the life of a Southwest Virginia family during the mid-nineteenth century, mostly from a feminine perspective. The letters focus on childbirth, death, illness, folk medicine, fashion, sewing, knitting, quilting,...
Dates:
1821 - 1882
Southwest Virginia Counties Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2000-092
Abstract
The Southwest Virginia Counties Collection includes correspondence, manuscript memoranda and recipe books, and family papers from the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke Counties.
Dates:
1824 - 1885
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- Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904 1
- Apperson, Mary 1
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- Black, Harvey, 1827-1888 1
- Black, Kent, active 1876-1890 1
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- Bralley, John, 1797-1866 1
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- Figgat, Nancy Godwin, 1835-1919 1
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- Kent, Germanicus, 1791-1862 1
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