Feamster Family Papers 1794-1967 (bulk 1813-1946)

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Feamster Family Papers 1794-1967 (bulk 1813-1946)

Members of the Feamster (Feemster) family. Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, and miscellaneous material illustrating the activities of four interrelated families from 1794 to 1967 whose members were engaged in farming, the law, medicine, the military, politics, religion, and other pursuits in Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Maryland. The collection also contains genealogical information about the Cary (Carey), Mathews (Mathews), Alderson, and Feamster families.

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Alderson family.

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Carey family.

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Matthews family.

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Cary, Ophelia Mathews

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Greene, Eliza Cary

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Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

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Episcopal Church

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Feamster, Robert Cantrell, 1916-

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Cary, Cyrus, 1794-1832

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Feamster, Thomas L., 1829-1906

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Cary, Charles William

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Carey family.

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Meade, William, 1789-1862

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Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. From the description of William Meade papers, 1811-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 660160649 Born 11 November 1789, the son of Richard Kidder Meade and Mary Fitzhugh (Grymes) Meade, William Meade graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1808. He married Mary Nelson (d. 1817) and Thomasia Nelson. He was elected Bishop of the Protestant Church in Virginia and Presiding Bishop of the 1861 Convention...

Feamster, Claudius Newman, 1876-1966

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Mathews, John, 1768-1849

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Matthews family.

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United States. Army

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Feamster, Felix Claudius, 1914-

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James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Cary, William, 1798-1857

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Alderson family.

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Feamster, Martha Alderson, 1797-1885

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Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 14th

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Feemster family.

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Alderson, J. D. (John Duffy), 1854-1910

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Feamster family

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Biographical Note John Mathews 1768, Oct. 30 Born in Virginia 1793 Moved to Greenbriar Co., Va. 1798 Lawyer, Lewisburg, Va. 1804 ...

Feamster, Samuel William Newman, 1836-1915

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