Sargeant Memorial Collection Legacy Genealogy Research Files, 1900-2015 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Margaret Marshall

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Box 3

Folder 1: Boykin Family Research, undated

Listing of Boykin Family gravestone information from Rosedale Plantation's Cemetery, en route to Petersburg, Virginia in Southampton County, Virginia.

Folder 2: Boylan Family Research, undated

Pedigree chart beginning with Susan Ross Boylan married to Paul C. Boyland Jr, and daughter of Eleanor Ross Peterson and Joseph CeRue Harper.  Other family names listed include McCauliff, Nevitt, Koeneman, Hazlet, Quidore, and Glavis.  Geographic locations listed include Stockton California, Fort Lewis Washington, LaRue County Kentucky, Hubbard Iowa, Allison Iowa, New York City New York and Albany New York.

Folder 3: Branch family will extracts, 1915

Extracts from James Branch's will (died in 1726).  Geographic locations listed include Henrico County, Virginia, Chesterfield County, Virginia, and Amelia County, Virginia.

Folder 4: Braswell Family Research, 1969

Narrative description and descendants list for Jacob Thomas Braswell.  Spelling of the name includes Bracewell and Braswell. Narrative begins in London, England and includes geographic locations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Chowan Precinct (later County), North Carolina, Bertie Precinct (later County), North Carolina, and Edgecombe County, North Carolina.  Researched by Viola Vick Braswell, assisted by Margarette Glynn Griffin and Mary Bell Delamar.

Folder 5: Braxton Family Research, undated

Copied pages and a transcript from a prayer book of Elizabeth Corbin Braxton. Geographic locations include Laneville, Virginia (now West Virginia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and York, Virginia.

Folder 6: Breathed family history, undated

Newspaper column regarding the Breathed family (alternate spelling of Breathitt).  Other family names listed include Kelly, Thomas, Reynolds, Lyles, Whitsell, Carroll, Vance, Carmack, Eaton, and O'Neill.  Geographic names listed include Washington County, Maryland, Henrico County, Virginia, Russellville, Kentucky, Franklin, Tennessee, and Halifax County, Virginia.

Folder 7: Breckenridge family history, 1964

Article from the Missouri Historical Review regarding the donation of the Breckenridge family papers to the State Historical Society.  Geographic locations listed include Greensboro, North Carolina, St. Louis, Missouri, Odessa, New York, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois.

Folder 8: Brooke family research, undated

Newspaper genealogical column beginning with Robert Brooke (born 1653).  Family names listed include Jones, Cock, Catesby, Walker, Robinson, Pollard, Fleet, Ellett, Smyth, Hill, Goodloe, Garrett, Bronaugh, Jeter, Neal, Harbending, Quinn, Dubois, Christian, Fontaine, Hoskins, Burwell, Bouldin, Rogers, White, Underwood, Booth, Slaughter, Catlett, Tarrent, Taliaferro, Braxton, Carter, Tunstall, Aylett, Dandridge, Anderson, Hutchinson, Selden, Sinclair, Baytop, Clark, Brinkerhoff, Snowdown, Brockenborough, Farrish, Spindle, Graham, Munford, and Armistead.  Geographic locations listed include Essex County, Virginia, Urbanna, Virginia,  Middlesex County, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, Illinois, Frenchtown, King William County, Virginia, Mantapike, Virginia, Caroline County, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, Connecticut, New York, Florida, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Baltimore, Maryland, Richmond, Virginia, Midway, Essex County, Virginia, Tennessee, Newport News, Virginia, and Charlotte County, Virginia.

Folder 9: Broun family research, 1912

A newspaper column, genealogy journal articles, and reports from the Institute of American Genealogy regarding the Broun family beginning with William Broun (died 1797).  Alternate spellings of the last name include Browne and Brown.  Family names listed include McAdam, Lee, Hale, Channel, Ball, Conway, Gaskins, Eustace, Moncure, Diggs, Walker, Pincard, Ewell, Eltonhead, Pinkard, Fenwick, Wormeley, Brocas, Brady, Pickett, Thomas, Nowell, Pinkard, Locock, Lord, Dease, Cusack, Huger, Saunders, Singleton, Sinkler, Lesesne, Harleston, Morcedai, Reynolds, Deas, Manning, Geddings, Lathrop, Fowler, Blunt, Jordan, Meriwether, Hartwell, Edloe, Gray, Eaton, Ruffin, Bowdoin, Cocke, Edmunds, Edward, Taylor, Power, Bowler, Hunt, Pierce, Henley, Christian, Cooper, Graves, Redwood, Hankins, Burnett, Carter, Bassett, Claiborne, Mason, Craighead, Humphreys, and Corbin.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk, Virginia, Northumberland County, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia, Maryland, York County, Virginia, Middlesex County, Virginia, Surry County, Virginia, Auburn, Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia, New York City, New York, Sherburne, Minnesota, Mississippi, Greenwood, Texas, Denton, Texas, Washington District of Columbia, York County, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rappahannock, Virginia, James City County, Virginia, New Kent County, Salem, Massachusetts, King Williams County, Virginia, Staunton, Virginia, Frankfort, Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, New Orleans, Louisiana, Tennessee, Augusta County, Virginia, and Fauquier County, Virginia.

Folder 10: Brown family genealogy, 1974

Family group worksheets and ancestor charts for the Brown family, beginning with Walter Edwin Brown, born 19 February 1892, died 5 October 1974. Compiled by Jeanne Hargis, Portsmouth, Virginia.  Other family names listed include Howard, Drake, Duncan, Hayward, Richardson, Hargis, Ackerly, Smith, Weeks, Metcalf, Carlson, Hanson, Morrel, Knight, Philbrick, Lewis, Hall, Codding, Andrews, Duke, Terry, Blitz, Sanford, Wood, Jones, Thompson, Young, Willoughby, Swain, Westbrook, Hill, Bumstead, Potter, Simond, Garrants, Boyden, Spooner, Taylor, Nye, Blair, Goldsmith, Heywood, Foster, Adams, Paxon and Neal.  Geographic locations listed include Portsmouth, Virginia, Danville, Kentucky, Hanover, New Jersey, Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Hampton, Virginia, Newport News, Virginia, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, Lowell, Massachusetts, Vassalboro, Maine, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, Winslow, Maine, Somerville, Massachusetts, Lexington, Massachusetts, China, Maine, Houton, Maine, San Francisco, California, Bridgewater, Maine, Suffolk County, New York, Oswego, New York, Norfolk, Virginia, Albany, New York and Ashford, Connecticut.

Folder 11: Brownley family research, 1976

Ancestor chart for the Brownley family, beginning with Sarah Roselyn Brownley of Norfolk, Virginia.  Other family names listed include Forrest, White, Morgan, Hudgins, Miller, Parrot, Sadler, Brooks, Knight, Presson, Diggs and Owens.  Geographic locations listed include Mathews County, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, Cape Charles, Virginia and Portsmouth, Virginia.

Folder 12: Bryan family genealogy, 1912

Newspaper clippings regarding Judge Albert V. Bryan, Sr. and the Bryan family. Other family names listed include Williamson, Cuthbert, Storey, Wylly, and Bull.  Geographic locations listed include Gloucester, Virginia and Savannah, Georgia.

Folder 13: Bugg Family Research, 2010

Copies of Birth and Death entries from the Bugg family bible.  Other family names listed include Alford, Marache, Patillo and Preston.  Geographic locations mentioned included Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Nottoway County, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, Alabama and North Carolina. Materials provided by Ms. Jean Walker of Suffolk, Virginia.

Folder 14: Burnett family newsletter, 1981

The Burnett family newsletter, dated April-June 1981, Volume 1, Number 1, Thomas R. Burnett, editor.  Other family names listed include Neff and Burnap.  Geographic locations listed include Bedford County, Virginia, Chesapeake, Virginia, Fluvanna County, Virginia, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Louisa, Virginia, Mecklenburg, Virginia, Madison County, Virginia, Franklin County, Virginia, North Carolina and McCaysville, Georgia.

Folder 15: Burroughs Family Research, 1953

A narrative description of the Burroughs family, beginning with Captain Elzey Burroughs in Norfolk, Virginia, arriving in 1810. Other family names listed include Thompson, Nimmo, McAlpine, Walke, and Fisher.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk, Virginia and Princess Anne County, Virginia.

Folder 16: Burton family research, undated

Newspaper genealogical column regarding the Burton family.  Family names listed include Robinson and Sandford.  Geographic locations listed include King and Queen County, Virginia, Gloucester, Virginia, Henrico County, Virginia, Orange County, Virginia, Augusta County, Virginia, Buncombe County, North Carolina, Northampton County, Virginia and Mecklenburg County, Virginia.

Folder 17: Burwell Family Research, 1870

Narrative description and descendants list beginning with John Burwell of Milford, Connecticut in 1639.  Other spellings of the last name include Burwell, Burrell, and Burrill.   Other family names listed include Higginson, Peck, Carter, Ambler, Grymes, and Page.  Geographic locations listed include Cleveland, Ohio, Bluffton, Indiana, Piney Woods, Virginia, New Haven, Connecticut, Richland, Michigan, East Saginaw, Michigan, Mercer, Pennsylvania, Bristol, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, Roxbury, Massachusetts, New York, Hemel Hempsted, Herfordshire England, Bedford, England and Northampton, England.

Folder 18: Burwell Family genealogy, 1944

Narrative description and newspaper genealogy column regarding the descendants of Major Lewis Burwell II of Gloucester County, Virginia (1680 - 1721). Other family names listed include Higginson, Grymes, Page, Cole, Ambler, Randolph, Smith, Bacon, Lear, Seaton, Harrison, Carter, Nicholas, Berkley, Armistead, and Nelson.  Geographic locations listed include Gloucester County, Virginia, York County, Virginia, James City County, Virginia, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Clarke County, Virginia, New Kent County, Virginia, Yorktown, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia, Nansemond County, Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia, Berkeley County, Virginia, Botetourt County, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia and Middlesex County, Virginia.

Folder 19: Butt Family Research, undated

Descendant lists, hand-written research notes, maps, family tree and narrative description of the Butt family.  Alternative spellings include Butt and Butts.  Other family names listed include Granberry, Maiden, Riddlehurst, Radford, Nichols, Wilson, Etheridge, Ship, Pinkerton, Cartwright, Sayer, Wilkins, Church, Boush, Fairfield, Bruce, Sylvester, Harding, Portlock, Black, and Dickey.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk County, Virginia, Berkley County, Virginia, Botetourt County, Virginia, Rockbridge County, Virginia, Princess Anne County, Virginia, Rockingham County, Virginia, Frederick County, Maryland, Kent County, Maryland, and Washington County, Virginia. One document was compiled by The Media Research Bureau of Washington DC.  Sarah Finch Maiden Rollins, with assistance from Kimberly Smith Ivey, Associate Curator of Textiles of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, produced one of the documents.

Folder 20: Byrd family history, 1906-1973

Newspaper articles and genealogy column regarding the Byrd family, beginning with William Byrd (born 1652, died 1704).  Family names listed include Stegg, Horsemanden, Brayne, Beverly, Parke, Chamberlayne, Taylor, Carter, Farley, Dunbar, Skipwith, Willing, Page, Harrison, Nelson, Meade, Boyd, Nicholas, Munford, Bratfute, Tompkins, Davis, Wilson, Cooke, Coke, Thompson, and Walker.  Geographic locations listed include Westover, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Richmond, Virginia, Richland, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, Frederick County, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 21: Cabaniss family research, 1913

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Cabaniss family, beginning with Henri Cabaniss who emigrated to Henrico County, Virginia.  Clay is listed as a related family.   Geographic locations listed include Prince George County, Virginia, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia, Amelia County, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Danville, Virginia, Greene County, Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, and Seattle, Washington.

Folder 22: Cabell family research, undated

Newspaper genealogy column and narrative description of the Cabell family, beginning with Dr. William Cabell, who emigrated to Virginia in 1724 or 1725. Family names listed include Burks, Meredith, Horsley, Jordan, Syme, Carrington, Irvine, Henry, Dandridge, Bruce, McClelland, Flournoy, Calloway, Massie, Garland, Daniel, Anthony, Branch, Bass, Clay, Patteson, and Read.  Geographic locations listed include Bedford County, Virginia, Halifax County, Virginia, Amherst County, Virginia, and Goochland (now Nelson) County, Virginia.

Folder 23: Cake Family Research, 1982

Pedigree chart beginning with Norma Lee Bloxsom of Norfolk Virginia (born 1925, died 1958) married to James C. Gates (born 1922) and daughter of Lee Murphy Bloxsom (born 1900, died 1975) and Mabel Estelle Cake (born 1901, died 1980).  Other family names listed include Murphy, White, Scott, McPherson, Van Name, Wright, Oakham, Malbone, Brown, Mersereau, Halsey and Welch.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk, Virginia, Princess Anne County, Virginia, Nansemond County, Virginia, Northampton County, Virginia, Hampton, Virginia, Perquimans County, North Carolina, and Chowan County, North Carolina.  Compiled by Norma Lee Gates of Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 24: Caldwell Family Bible Excerpts, 1999

Photocopied pages and transcription of excerpts from the Caldwell-Wilson Family Bible. Family names listed include Hudnall, Wilson, Henson, Pierce, O'Neal, Clark, Darnall, Calhoun, Bass, Hughes, Cheatham, Elliott, Fisher, Moore, Robertson, and Jenkins.  Geographic locations listed include Birmingham, Alabama, Blackstone, Virginia, Crewe, Virginia, Hamlet, Virginia, Kemper County, Mississippi, Lynchburg, Virginia, Pike County, Alabama, and Shiloh, Tennessee. Contributed by Henrietta Fair Wilson, Chairman, Genealogical Records Committee, Great Bridge Chapter, Norfolk, Virginia.   Owned by Mr. W. Leon O'Neal of St. Charles, Missouri.  Also, a genealogy column regarding the origins of the name is included in the folder.

Folder 25: Calvert Family Research, undated

Narrative description and copies of family bible information for the Calvert family.  Family names listed include Taylor, Gatliff, O'Grady, Allen, Wickham and Cowdery.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk, Virginia, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Suffolk, Virginia and Princess Anne County, Virginia.

Folder 26: Calvert family history, 1970

Newspaper clippings regarding the family and family bible of Cornelius Calvert (died in 1749).  Other family names listed include Saunders and Read.  Geographic locations listed include Princess Anne County, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, Denleigh, Warwick County, Virginia, and Petersburg, Virginia.

Folder 27: Cameron Family Research, 1967

Narrative description of the descendants of Allen Cameron, who arrived in America in 1791 at Wilmington, North Carolina. Other family names listed include Stewart, McKeithen, Morris, Maxwell, Baker, Colvin, Bass, Senter, Walker, Stone, McDonald, Graham, Dalrymple, Thomas, McLean, Byrd, and Buie.  Geographic locations listed include Cape Fear, North Carolina, Bluff Church, North Carolina, Georgia, Jacksonville, Florida, and Swann Station, North Carolina.

Folder 28: Campbell family history, 1914-1968

Newspaper genealogy columns regarding the Campbell family in Virginia and the origins of the Campbell name. Other family names listed include Henry, Preston, Hay, Hamilton, Thompson, McPheeters, Walker, Carleton, Courtney, Baytop, Jones, Fox, De Shazo, Wood, Pendelton, Winston, Gwathney, and Hendren.  Geographic locations listed include Augusta County, Virginia, Fayette County, Kentucky, Mason County, Kentucky, Gloucester County, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia and West Point, Virginia.

Folder 29: Cantrell family history, 1907

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Cantrell (alternatively spelled Cantrill and Cantrel) family.  Geographic locations listed include Jamestown, Virginia, Washington, District of Columbia, Lebanon, Tennessee, Calhoun, Georgia, Little Rock, Arkansas, Louisville, Kentucky, Kansas City, Missouri, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Denver, Colorado, and Georgetown, Kentucky.

Folder 30: Carleton family history, 1914

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Carleton (alternatively spelled Carlton) family.  Family names listed include Campbell, Wood, Bagley, Bagby, Ryland, Gwathney, Powers, Tazewell, King, Jackson, Purks, De Shazo, Jones, Lumpkin, Johnson, King, Smith, Pritchard, Stegar, Barn, Finch, Allen, Deane, Brown, Jarratt, Moore, Cunningham, Butler and Bethune.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, Green County, Georgia, King William, Virginia, Arundel County, Maryland, Cumberland County, Virginia, Lunenburg (now Mecklenburg) County, Virginia, Green County, Virginia, Madison, Georgia, and Milledgeville, Georgia.

Folder 31: Carrington family history, 1916

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Carrington family, beginning with George Carrington, born 1711, died 1785.  Other family names listed include Brent, Cabell, Read, Sims, Bertrand, Mosby, Harris, Adams, Venable, Bernard, Johnston, Copeland, Watkins, Womack, Reid, Morton, Wombish, Ragland, Page, McPhail, Grigsby, Coles, Fontaine, Green, Preston, Shields, Meriwether, Worsham, Vaden, Bradley, Ford, Newsom, Anderson, Tucker, Scott, Gathright, Smith, Dabney, Temple, Chevallie, Watson, Nowlin, Cornwall, Lyons, Stanard, Taliaferro, Jordan, Boredin, Rust, Mayo, Preston, Hawkins, Williams, Brooker, Jefferson, Gilliam, Thornton, Povale, Hatcher, Payne, Walton, Miller, Wilkinson, Pittman, Blair, Wilds, Pickett, Dimmock, Braxton, and Morton.  Geographic locations listed include Barbados, Goochland, Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Gloucester County, Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, St. Louis, Missouri, Russellville, Kentucky, Mississippi and Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 32: Carrington Family Research, undated

Pedigree chart beginning with William Miles Carrington and Joan Anne Transue. Compiled by Mary Sue Williams of Birmingham, Alabama.  Other family names listed include Lawson, Williams, Garnham, Russell, Mathers, Gordon, Wallis, DeLaunay, Brooks, Adamson, Bullock, Myles, McKinley, Stewart, LaBoudais, Shinholser, Scott and Whilden.  Geographic locations listed include Cambridge, Massachusetts, Analomik, Pennsylvania, McAllen, Texas, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Clanton, Alabama, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alexander City, Alabama, Evansville, Indiana, Pomona, California, San Diego, California, Washington, District of Columbia, Milledgeville, Georgia, Pales Verdes, California, and Fort Stanton, New Mexico.

Folder 33: Carter family history, 1907-1991

Newspaper genealogy columns regarding the Carter family, and an article about Robert Carter III of Nomini, Virginia who freed 500 of his slaves in 1791.  Family names listed include Dale, Churchill, Armistead, Tasker, Ball, Walker, Byrd, Taliaferro, Chiswell, Brown, Burnett, Champe, Claiborne, Thompson, Hall, Willis, Burwell, Nelson, Braxton, Fry, Page, Harrison, Catlett, and Baytop.  Geographic locations listed include Lancaster County, Virginia, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Middlesex County, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, King George County, Virginia, New York, Williamsburg, Virginia, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Yorktown, Virginia, Albemarle County, Virginia, Charles City County, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, and Gloucester County, Virginia.

Folder 34: Carter, James Earl, President of the United States, 1977

Newspaper articles regarding the genealogy of James Earl Carter, President of the United States.  Other family names listed include Harrison, Braxton, Lee, Moore, Duckworth, and Gordy.  Geographic locations listed include Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia, Northumberland County, Virginia, Richmond County, Virginia, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Irvington, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, South Carolina, Bertie County, North Carolina, McDuffie County, Georgia, Talbot County, Georgia, Rowena, Georgia, Sumter County, Georgia, Warren County, Georgia and Plains, Georgia.