Papers of the Heth family [manuscript], 1794-1959, bulk 1889-1954.

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Papers of the Heth family [manuscript], 1794-1959, bulk 1889-1954.

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The collection contains correspondence, financial, legal and military papers, a diary, school records, photographs and miscellany. Financial and legal papers constitute the bulk of the collection and contain letters and documents pertaining to the settlement of the estates of Stockton Heth, Sr., and S. Pickett Heth together with correspondence, accounts and recipts re the family farm, "White Thorn," business transactions, and real estate and stock holdings. Of interest are letters re a land sale to the Norfolk and Western Railroad and one re the Radford-Willis Southern Railway, letters, 1934-1947, re Virginia Polytechnic Institute's use and disposal of "White Thorn" and indentures and deeds, 1794-1860, for tracts in Montgomery County and Tennessee. Correspondence generally discusses family and local news. World War I letters of Clement Craig Heth from camps in the U.S. and Italy are included. There are also two letters, 1892 and 1898, from former Confederate general Henry Heth, and brief letters, 1946, from Harry F. Byrd, Sr. Of interest is a letter, 1943, from A. R. Hoxton, President of Virginia Episcopal School re an applicant's Nazi sympathies. The diary of Stockton Heth, Sr., covers 1908 and discusses family matters, travel, farm business, social visits, and weather. Miscellaneous papers include invitations, greeting cards, obituaries, genealogies, a daguerreotype, photographs of family members, and a note re the naming of the New River Grays Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Virginia Tech

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Heth family.

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Montgomery County, Va., family. From the description of Papers of the Heth family [manuscript], 1794-1959, bulk 1889-1954. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647831809 ...

Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966

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Heth, Henry, 1825-1899

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Heth, Clement Craig, d. 1930.

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Hoxton, A.R.

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Heth, S. Pickett, d. 1951

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Radford-Willis Southern Railway.

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Heth, Isabella Hammett, d. 1916.

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Norfolk and Western Railroad Company

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Dalton and Poff.

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Heth, Stockton, 1839-

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Virginia Episcopal School.

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Heth, Virginia, d. 1946.

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Heth, Stockton, 1892-1917.

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