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[VIRGINIA / HISTORY / ARCHITECTURE] CRAZY CRATE 70 BOOK 3: HOUSES VIRGINIANS HAVE LOVED. By Agnes Rothery. Rinehart & Co., 1954. Illustrated with many, many photographs. Over 90 illustrations identify the Virginia homes and point out special features about each place. Included are stories about many of the families that owned them. Some of the homes listed are: (IN ALEXANDRIA) Carlyle House, Dulaney House. Lord Fairfax House, Geradus Clarke House, Emile Burn House, Dr. Brown, Dr. Craik, Dr. Dick Houses, Robert E. Lee House, Dr. Lanier Gray House, Gunston Hall, Woodlawn. MOUNT VERNON. Belmont, Rokeby, Oak Hill; (IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA) Oatlands, Gordonsdale, Rosney, Red Gate, Selma, Chapel Hill, Fairfield, Carter Hall, The Nook, Springsburg, Scaleby. (WINCHESTER) Thornhill, Hackwood, Abram’s Delight, Rose Hill Farm, Holly House. (IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY) Fleur de lis of the Valley, The Racing Parson. (AT STAUNTON) Kalorama, Stuart House, A Presbyterian Manse. (AT LEXINGTON) Col Alto, Spring Meadows, Greyledge. (ROANOKE) Monterey, Greenfield, Lone Oak, Fotheringay. (SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA) An Unknown Architect of Pulaski, Wytheville, Abingdon. (LYNCHBURG) Poplar Forest, Point of Honor. Quick House. (BELLE MERE) Winton. (SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA) Prestwould, Berry Hill, Staunton Hall. (JEFFERSON’S COUNTRY) A Princess at Home, Monticello, Love and a Cottage, Redlands, The House That Disappeared [What a story this one has! I’d love to see it someday!]. MONTPELIER. (FEDERAL HILL IN FREDERICKSBURG) The Daniels House, The Doggett House, Kenmore, Mary Washington House, Chatham. (BESIDE THE RAPPAHANNOCK) Elmwood, Gaymont, Stratford. (THE EASTERN SHORE) Eyre Hall, Kerr Place, Seven Gables, Corbin Hall, Wharton, Hills Farm, Warwick, Elkington, Arlington. (RICHMOND) Virginia House, Agecroft Hall, Ampthill, Wilton, John Marshall House, Wickham-Valentine House, White House of the Confederacy, Linden Row, Pratt’s Castle. (ALONG THE JAMES RIVER) Westover, Carter’s Grove. and a Palace in Virginia. An absolutely lovely book done in black-and-white photographs of lovely old Virginia homes’ exterior and/or interior views. The story and history of each house is presented in a wonderful style that encourages an on-site inspection of the delights of early Virginia’s old homes. Your Virginia families, if they were lucky, may have visited in one or more of these lovely homes. If you have the slightest interest in architecture and/or interior design, you would really enjoy this book. USED. Some fraying of covers, upper ½” of spine is worn from use and torn about ¼” at top. Book when new was $25. Condition lowers price to $20. Interior is fine.The first part of this book is a county history full of the good things that happened in this county and a few of the bad things too. There are names, names, and more names sprinkled liberally through the first part. In the second part, the name is the thing. The biographical section is made up of people living there in 1963, relating their birth, marriage, children and occasionally their ancestors. Sketches for the following surnames are found in this book: [For Weirton] Anas 2, Andrews, Anile, Baly, Basil, Battaglia, Beane, Beaumont, Bellanco, Bender, Bendot, Bilderback, Blinn, Block, Blumert 3, Bogarad, Boley, Bonnizzio, Brenneman, Brostman, Buchanan, Bush, Cameron, Carr, Castelli, Cattrell, Cerroni, Cervi, Charnie, Chavis, Ciarrocchi, Ciervo, Cooke, Cullinan, Curenton, Dibartolomeo, Dintini, Dobosz, Dumbaugh 2, Eddy, Endry, Ewing, Fahey, Falsetti, Felski, Fenske, Ferrari 2, Fiedler, Flaherty, Frew, Gelini, Gould, Gretchen, Grossi 2, Gullette, Gunton, Haines, Hamil, Harris 2, Harrold, Hartley, Hartman, Heaslett 2, Hertnick, Highsmith, Hill 2, Hillis, Hissom, Hutnyan, Izenson, Johnson, Jones, Kerkes, Kesling, Kikilidis, Kokochak, Kromer, Kuswhner, Kusic, Leach, Lee, Lenhart, Longacre, Loucas, Lupinetti, Lutton, Lytle, Magnone, Mastrantoni, Marsh, Martin, Matthews, Maus, Maze, Meighen, Menizer, Mccrea, Mcintosh, Mcintyre, Mckenzie, Mckinney, Miller 3, Millsop, Montani, Moraitis, Moss, Moulds, Myers, Nach, Natsis, Newbrough, Niesslein, Orler, O’roark, Padden, Pelliccione, Petitt, Phillips 2, Pilette, Presley, Ralich, Ralph, Rine, Risovich, Rodak 3, Rosenshine, Ross 2, Rothrock, Rybka, Sample, Schwerha, Sikora, Snodgrass, Sokolowski, Sorrenti, Starck, Starvaggi, Stetson, Sutton, Sweaney 2, Thompson 2,Yhorman, Ticich, Tompos, Torchio, Tournay, Tsapis, Tucker, Unkgvich, Walthur, Weinberg, Weinbberg 2, Weller, Whitaker, White, Wilson 3. And Yurko. [New Cumberland] Brenneman, Bryan, Cowl, Crispell, Donovan, Fields, Frail, Fuccy, Herron 2, Kuzio, Lowe, Manypenny, Porter, Rice, Roach, Stewart, Swain, Webster And Williams. [Pughtown] Stewart. [Newell] Lytton, McSwegin, Moore, Pittenger and Wells. [Chester] Allison 2, Boyce, Brand, Chandler, Graham, Hobbs, Hutton, Johnston, Mack, Pugh, Stewart, Taylor, Turner, and Wright, 202 pages, new, $20
[VIRGINIA / WEST VIRGINIA] CRAZY CRATE 70 BOOK 7: HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. By Jack Welch. The Wheeling News Printing & Litho. Co., 1963. Hancock County is the northernmost county in West Virginia bounded on the north and west by the Ohio River, on the east by Pennsylvania and on the south by Brooke County. It is the smallest county in West Virginia with 88.55 square miles. It has three municipalities (Chester, New Cumberland and Weirton), three magisterial districts (Butler, Clay and Grant) and 37 voting precincts (in 1963).
[VIRGINIA / HENRICO PARISH, VA / OLD ST. JOHN’S CHURCH] CRAZY CRATE 71 BOOK 1: HISTORY OF HENRICO PARISH AND OLD ST. JOHN’S CHURCH OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1611-1904. ANNALS OF HENRICO PARISH. By Rev. L. W. Burton, Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., and for nine years Rector of St. John’s Church. This book encompasses five parts. 1. The History of St. John’s P. E. Church, together with the names, portraits, time of service, and sketches of the Bishops of Virginia. And also of the ministers and assistant ministers. 2. A complete roster of the vestries, from 1741 to 1904, list of communicants, marriages, baptisms, deaths and burials, together with the inscriptions on the tombstones. 3. Records of the Parish of Henrico in their entirety, with their quaint and antique language and entries, from the original vestry book, from 1730 to 1773, with notes by Dr. R. A. Brock. 4. The famous Liberty Speech of Patrick Henry, delivered in the old church. 5. Oration of the Rev. A. M. Randolph, and the address of Hon. Wm. Wirt Henry, delivered in the Church on its 150th Anniversary, in 1891. Edited and compiled by J. Staunton Moore, Richmond, Va. Authorized by the Vestry. Surname entries in the index to the vestry book with more than three first names are: Adams, Allen, Austin, Bacon, Bailey, Baker, Bolling, Bridgewater, Brittain, Brown, Bullington, Burton, Cabell, Cannon, Carrington, Carter, Childers, Clark, Cocke, Coles, Conway, Cox, East, Ellis, Epps, Freeman, Gathright, Giles, Goodall, Goode, Green, Harrison, Hatcher, Henry, Hobson, Jones, Leigh, Levies, Ligon, Lorton, Martin, Mayo, Mosby, Mosely, Nelson, Parsons, Payne, Pettus, Pleasants, Porter, Poval, Price, Ragland, Randolph, Redford, Robertson, Robinson, Royal, Rutherfoord, Scot(t), Sharp, Sharpe, Shepherd, Smith, Stith, Taylor, Turner, Walker, Watkins, Watson, West, Wilkinson, Williams, Williamson, Winston, Wood, Woodson and Worsham. There is a second index, about eleven pages, in the middle of the book that includes marriage and birth records of names. Spine and cover are still attached to the book, but have parted from the spine at front and back hinge. 541 pages + 204 pages + index. The book is an original of the 1904 printing. Ex lib., DAR library in Evansville, IN. $55[VIRGINIA / IMMIGRANTS LISTS] CRAZY CRATE 83 BOOK 6: EARLY VIRGINIA IMMIGRANTS 1623-1666. By George Cabell Greer, Clerk, Virginia State Land Office. GPC, Originally published 1912, Rep. 1960. Reissued 1973. Hardbound, 376 pages, good condition USED. $30. With over 50 lines per page and 376 pages, there are a lot of early Virginia people in ths book. Nearly 25,000 names have been collected from the original records of the Virginia Land Office in Richmond, VA. They say they are arranged in alphabetical order. [Somewhat, I think to about the first two letters. I recommend you scan the entire first letter of any of these surname lists carefully to make sure you don’t miss one.]
Entries look similar to these: Abram, John, 1638, by Bennett Freeman, James City. Banister, Henry, 1653, by Joseph Croshaw, York Co. Chandler, Eliz., 1636, by John Chandler, Elizabeth City Co. Darling, Ruth, 1654, by Peter Knight , Northumberland Co. Spence, Robert, 1654, by Edward Simpson,, New Kent County.
Well, it is a starting place, isn’t it? Most surnames are represented here with dozens of leads to get you started.
Has it occurred to you that none of the receiving folks [the last one on the line] are in any alphabetical order, but you would also have a place and year for them? They may be a challenge to find, but you have in this book nearly 25,000 places to look for your surname among those names, too!
CRAZY CRATE 155 BOOK 1: TRACKS ALONG THE STAUNTON, A HISTORY OF LEESVILLE, LYNCH STATION, HURT & ALTAVISTA. By Diane Popek. ©1984, by the author, self-published, 258 pages, soft bound, slick heavy paper covers. $18. She states in her preface, “Thank God for grandmothers and grandfathers who recall “the olden days.” Listening to them helped her decide to write this composite of the history of these four Virginia towns. Many of the stories are simply recollections of an era passed, family legends for which there is no ultimate written proof from the time of the incidents.
This is about the families who settled here, from their descendants, their old Bibles, their diaries and ledgers, researched for accuracy through court house records and through documents recorded in the archives at the State Library in Richmond (VA).
She goes on to reference all the books and histories she reviewed and the people she consulted and talked to about the information that is in the book. The Table of Contents fills nearly three entire pages and explains where the information was gathered. The book is graced with many illustrations from pencil and pen & ink sketches to postcards and privately owned pictures to photos that appeared in the newspapers.
Although the book does not have an every-name index, there are literally hundreds of names scattered throughout the text. Page 2 mentions the families of Charles Lynch, Christopher Clark, the Irvins, Mitchells, McCues, McElroys, McDowells and Campbells. Names and relationships like whose daughter married a prominent man whose family soon encompassed six children. Stories of the Indians, the capture of Sarah Daugherty and her father’s clever way of finding her in the Indian camp twenty years later, are related. This book covers the very early days of Pittsylvania County and all the other counties that were made from Augusta after 1720.
Sentences similar to this one are found throughout the book. “The Dillards were Welsh. Four brothers, Thomas, Nicholas, Edmond and George, came to Virginia around 1700. The Leftwiches, the Dillards and the Wards intermarried and joined lands in Pittsylvania County.” More details are found in another chapter.
If you are looking for genealogical guideposts, this is the book for you. One story (about the old families) follows another in profusion. A fascinating read for anyone interested in this area of Virginia covering most of Augusta, Bedford, Campbell, and Pittsylvania Counties Her sketches alone are worth the price of the book.
This lady would be perfectly at home in the 18th century in this part of Virginia. She definitely would know everybody of interest in the community and has written about most of them in this book! I can’t believe how many of these families I recognized from the research I have done in Augusta and Bedford Counties. If you have family in this area, it is highly likely your surname will be mentioned in detail.
Some of the families are brought right up to the family’s descendants living in the 1970s. I hope to make arrangements to have an every-name index to this book done in the near future and I will be carrying both the book and the index in the shop as soon as possible. Order now to get your books! $18
CRAZY CRATE 182 BOOK 1:
THE PARTISAN RANGERS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, Edited by William J Davis, Louisville, KY, Geo. G. Fetter Company, ©1904 by Brigadier General Adam R. Johnson. Reprint by Cook & McDowell Publications, ©1979 with a new 37-page index. There are about 1,400 names in this index. Many have biographies written for them. Almost all have their company name, their officers, and their rank. Some have even more information. $35 The author says he is publishing this work for two reasons. First to pay tribute to the Kentucky boys, who, most of them gently born and nurtured, left home, family, friends, fortune behind them, and enlisting in his command, fought for the Cause of the South. And, secondly to aid the women of the South, who, under the name of United Daughters Of the Confederacy, have organized local societies, or Chapters, in the several states, to care for the poor, to nurse the sick, to relieve the distressed, to help the aged and infirm among the survivors of the Lost Cause, to bury them when they die, and to mark their graves.The story begins with a useful history of the time of the boys Boyhood and Youth. Chapters follow covering the Texas Frontier, Indian Hostilities, the Surveyors, Forrest’s Scouts, Skirmishes and Captures, At the Old Home, In Federal Camps, Fort Donelson, After the Battle of Shiloh, The Message in Cipher, A Band of Three, the Capture of Newburg, The Breckinridge Guards, The Rangers Flag, The Partisan Rangers, Bragg Dallies in Kentucky, The President of the Confederacy, Entrapped by Bragg, The Indiana and Ohio Raids, Morgan’s Men Reorganized, The Forlorn Hope, The Rangers Last Campaign, Latter Days, The New Home, Indian Raids, Peace. These are all narratives of how this group performed, the where and the when, during the War Between the States. There are over 65 illustrations of places and people.
The every-name-index, added to this edition for the first time, covers pages 477 to 516. Surnames mentioned in the index on three or more than three pages or surnames with three or more than three given names (names may appear more than once on a page, but are only counted once!) include the following: Adams, Agnew, Albutt, Allen, Allin, Alloway, Alvey, Ambrose, Anderson, Applegate, Armstrong, Arnold, Ashby, Ashl(ey/y), Ausenbaugh, Austin, Baker, Ball, Barbour, Barrett, Bean, Beauchamp, Beck, Bell, Bennett, Berry, Bethel, Biggs, Bird, Black, Blackwell, Blandford, Blythe, Boles, Boswell, Bowen, Boyd, Braddock, Bradley, Bragg, Brantley, Brashear/Brasher, Breckinridge, Brooks, Browder, Brown, Bruce, Buchanan, Buckman, Buckner, Bullock, Burbank, Burbridge, Burnett, Burton, Butts, Call, Camp, Cannon, Carrico, Carlisle, Catlett, Chandler, Chapman, Case, Cheaney, Chenoweth, Cherry, Chicon, Chinn, Christian, Christy, Clark/e, Clay, Clayton, Clore, Cluke, Cobb, Coleman, Collins, Con, Conway, Cook, Cooper, Cox, Crittenden, Crockett, Cromwell, Cullen, Culver, Cunningham, Daly, Dance, Darnell, Davenport, Davis, Day, Delaney, Dillard, Dills, Dimmitt, Dixon, Dodd, Dodge, Drury, Duke, Duvall, Dye, Dyer, Eaves, Ebelin, Edwards, Elder, Elliott, Ellis, Em(m)erson, Eubanks, Farley, Farrow, Fendrick, Field/s, Fisher, Fitzhenry, Flannigan, Floyd, Ford, Forrest, Foster, Fowler, Francis, Fraser/Frasier/Frazer/Frazier, Freeman, French, Friend, Gathright, George, Gibson, Gilchrist, Giles, Girten, Gist, Glass, Gooch, Goodwin, Gough, Grady, Graves, Gray, Grayson, Green, Greenwell, Grenfel, Griffin, Grigsby, Gudgell, Hager, Hall, Hamby, Hamilton, Hamm(a/o)ck, Hancock, Handley, Hanson, Hardwic(h/k), Hardy, Hargis, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Harte, Haskins, Hayden, Hayes, Head, Helm, Henry, Herndon, Heron, Herron, Hewitt, Hibbs, Hicklin, Hicks, Higginson, Higgs, Hill, Hillman, Hobbs, Hobson, Hockersmith, Hollis, Holloway, Holman, Holt, Horseman, Houston, Howard, Howell, Hughes, Humphrey, Hunt, Hunter, Hutchin, Hutcheson, Jackson, James, January, Jenkins, Jennings, Jewell, Johnson(lots), Johnston, Jones, Justice, Keach, Kineer, Kinneer, Kirby, Kuykendall, Lackland, Ladd, Laffoon, Lancaster, Lee, Lester, Lewis, Lincoln, Linds(a/e)y, Linthicum, Lockett, Logan, Long, Lubbock, Lucket/t, Lynn, Lyon, McClellan, McCullo(ch/ough), McFarland, McGee, McGill, McGraw, McKinley, McKnight, McLean, Madden, Magill, Mangum, Marr, Marrs, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Masterson, Mattingly, Mefford, Menasco, Meredith, Merriwether, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Milford, Montgomery, Morgan, Morris, Morrow, Morton, Mounts, Mullins, Myers, Myrick, Nance, Napier, Neal, Nelson, Netherton, Newman, Nisbet/t, Oates, Omer, Orang/e, Osborn/Osburn, Overton, Owen/s, Owsley, Parker, Patterson, Payne, Pease, Pemberry/ Pemburry, Pent(e/i)cost, Perkins, Peters, Phillips, Pillow, Pirtle, Platter, Porter, Pot/ts, Powell, Prentice, Price, Prince, Pritchett, Prow, Quasho, Query, Quigley, Quinn, Rankin, Ray, Reasor, Reed, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Richardson, Richeson, Riddle, Riley, Roach, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Ross, Rudd, Rummage, Russell, Sandefur, Sanders, Sands, Scarce, Scott, Sellers, Shackleford, Shanks, Sheets, Sheldon, Sherman, Sights, Simms, Sisk, Skinner, Slayton, Slaughter, Slayton, Smith, Soery, Spaulding, Spatchel, Stallions, Starling, Staples, Steele, Stephens, Stewart, Stone, Stonestreet, Sugg, Sullivan, Sutton, Swingle, Sypert, Tapp, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Thornton, Threlkeld , Thurman, Timmons, Tippett, Todd, Townsend, Trafton, Trumbo, Turbin, Utley/Uttley, VanDeveer/Vandever/Vandiver, Van Dorn, Vaughn, Walker, Wall, Wallace, Waller, Ward, Wathen, Watson, Wheeler, White, Whitecotton, Wicks, Wilkerson, Wilkins, Williams Willing, Willingham, Wilson, Winstead, Withers, Wood, Woodburn,Woodward, Wright, Yarbrough, and Yates.
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