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

By Margaret Marshall

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Box 4

Folder 1: Cartwright Family Research, 1968

Descendants chart for John Cartwright, circa 1666.  Shipp family tree with inter-marriage with the Cartwright family also shown. Other family names listed include Trueblood, Rees, Tamer, Keeling, Cotton, Claydon and Butt.  Geographic locations listed include Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, Princess Anne County, Virginia, Surry County, Virginia, Pasquotank, North Carolina, James City County, Virginia, Worcester, Bristol, England, Norfolk County, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia and Accomack County, Virginia. Compiled by Alice Granbery Walter.

Folder 2: Cary family history, 1907-1915

Newspaper genealogy columns regarding the Cary family, beginning with Miles Cary (born 1620, emigrated 1648, died 1667).  Family names listed include Cocke, Armistead, Taylor, Cole, Slaughter, Booth, Hay, Gholson, Dudley, Kuper, Powers, Robinson, Dunbar, Sweeney, Wythe, Baytop, Whiting, Cooper, Hudgens, Fisher, and Graves.  Geographic locations listed include Warwick County, Pennsylvania, Chesterfield County, Virginia, Southampton, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Hampton, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, Pontotoc, Mississippi, and Matthews County, Virginia.

Folder 3: Catlett family history, undated

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Catlett family, beginning with John Catlett (born 1808).  Family names listed include Gaines, Gates, Conway, Madison, Brown, Slaughter, Underwood, Butler, Thompson, Upton, Taliaferro, Thornton, Smith, Eggleston, Carter, Gwathney, Tompkins, Wren, Metcalfe, Cobbler, Waller, Yates, Thruston, Morris, Baytop, Field, Banks, Burwell, Gibson, Thornberry, Buckner and Grayson.  Geographic locations listed include Gloucester County, Virginia, Essex County, Virginia, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Culpeper County, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, and Carolina County, Virginia.

Folder 4: Cave family history, 1906

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Cave family, beginning with Benjamin Cave, (emigrated 1725, died 1740).  Other family names listed include Bledsoe, Carr, Shackleford, Kemper, Belfield and Rucker.  Geographic locations listed include Orange County, Virginia, Culpeper County, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Fayette County, Kentucky, Albemarle County, Virginia and Richmond County, Virginia.

Folder 5: Cecil Family Research, September 1963

Narrative description and descendants list of William Cecil, born 1665, died 1749. Compiled and written by Walter V. Ball of Chevy Chase, Maryland.  Alternative spellings of the last name include Sessell, Cecell, Cecill, Sescell, Cissell, Cissill, Ciceal, Sisell, Cecill, Ciscell, Ciseill, Ceicell, Sissill, and Cecil.  Other family names listed include Ball, Sollers, Witten, Grayson, Ingram, Springer, Wysor, Hatcher, Parsons, and Boylston. Geographic locations listed include Norfolk County, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia, Rappahannock County, Virginia, Accomack County, Virginia, Pennsylvania, St. Mary's County, Maryland, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Prince George's County, Maryland, Tazewell County, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia, Takoma Park, Maryland, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri.

Folder 6: Ceeley family history, undated

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Ceeley family.  Other family names listed include Saunders, Blackburn, Green and McIntosh.  Geographic locations listed include Gloucester County, Virginia, Warwick County, Virginia, Elizabeth City County, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 7: Chamberlain family history, undated

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Chamberlain family (alternatively spelled Chamberlayne).  Other family names listed include Blackerby, Jeffries, and Pickett.  Geographic locations listed included Norfolk, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, New Kent County, Virginia, Wheeling, (now West Virginia) Virginia, Henrico County, Virginia, Fauquier County, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia and Hoburn, Massachusetts.

Folder 8: Chambers Family Research, 1966

Copies of wills for two individuals named Maxwell Chambers of Rowan County, North Carolina.  Also, a narrative description of the descendants of the Fox family of King William County, Virginia and the Whitley family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Alternative name spellings include Wheatly, Wheatley, Whitty, Whitly, and Whitley. Other family names listed include Carr, Kerr, West, Clairborne, Tunstall, Madden, Durham, Street, Allen, Bassett, Babb, and Edwards.  Other geographic locations listed include Kent County, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, Nansemond County, Virginia, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Brunswick County, Virginia, Surry County, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Harrellsville Bertie County, North Carolina, Suffolk, Virginia, Gates County, North Carolina, Hertford, North Carolina, and Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  One document written by Shelly B. Watson, Jr.  Another document written by Mrs. Olive Cartwright of Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 9: Cheatham Family Bible information, 1999

Bible pages for Zaccheus Elam Cheatham and Alice Leola (nee Hardwick) Hannah Cheatham of Appomattox County, Virginia, 1849 - 1956.  Bible pages for John Caldwell Hudnall and Roxanna A. Wilson Hudnall, 1837 - 1925.  Other family names listed include Abbitt, Hannah, Moore, and Elliott.  Geographic locations listed include Appomattox County, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia, Crewe, Virginia, and Blackstone, Virginia.  Contributed by Henrietta Fair Wilson, Chairman, Genealogical Records Committee, Great Bridge Chapter, Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 10: Chedester Family Tree, April 12, 1975

Family tree beginning with Ernest Mitchell Chedester (born 1907, died 1963), married to Lola Mae Clevenger (born 1909), son of Sallie Tom Lemons (born 1888, died 1967) and Oliver D. Chedester (born 1877, died 1964). Other family names listed include Carter, Cook, Crawford, Pierce, Hays (Hayes), Brooks, and Stewart(Stuart).  Geographic locations listed include Clay County, Missouri, Washita County, Oklahoma, Cordell, Oklahoma, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, Collin County, Texas, Green County, Texas, Des Moines, Iowa, Redlands, California, Knoxville, Tennessee, Kenna, New Mexico, and Green County, Tennessee.  Family tree beginning with Lola Mae Clevenger (born 1909) married to Ernest Mitchell Chedester (born 1907, died 1963), daughter of Mary Columbus Trammell (born 1888, died 1964) and Carl Monroe Clevenger (born 1888, died 1975). Other family names listed include Parker, Brite, Baker, Blocker, McPhail, Fowler, Hobson and Bell.  Geographic locations listed include Tannin County, Texas, Wise County, Texas, Cordell, Oklahoma, Reynolds County, Missouri, Lawrence County, Missouri, Sentinel, Oklahoma, Scott County, Tennessee, and Bedford County, Pennsylvania.  Submitted by Juhree Carr of Canadian, Texas.

Folder 11: Chenault family history, 1916

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Chenault family, beginning with Stephen Chenault.  Other family names listed include Dabney, Mullins, Tribble, Mitchell, Prewitt, Duncan, Elmore, White, Turner, Evans, Huguely, Crowell, Shearer, Wallace, Burnsides, Bullock, Fogg, Goff, Estil, Clay, Munday, Quisenberry, Douglass, Blackwell, Simpson and Harris. Geographic locations listed include Manikin Town, Virginia, Richmond, Kentucky, Albemarle County, Virginia, Fayette County, Virginia and Lexington, Kentucky.

Folder 12: Cherry family history, 1964

Cherry family information, including a letter from Laurence Campbell regarding Etta May Cherry Strong.  Information attributed to the William and Mary Quarterly shows Norfolk County Marriage Bonds information for James Cherry.  Family names listed include Etherage, Groves, Culpepper, Pollock, and Greenwood.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk County, Virginia, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio and Paxton, Illinois.

Folder 13: Cherry Family Tree, 1989

Family tree beginning with Marian Virginia Westcott (born 1930), married to Robert Henry Rudd (born 1927), daughter of Dorman Emmett Westcott (born 1902, died 1963), and Freda Virginia Cherry (born 1905).  Other family names listed include Grotevant, Haines, Pebworth, Murden, Evans, Hill, Seely, Dennis, Edwards, Watts, and Burke.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk, Virginia, Manhatten, Kansas, Franklin, New York, Meridith Square, New York, Milford, New York, Franklin, New York, Walton, New York, Fayette County, Ohio, and Wabaunsee, Kansas.  Written by Marian Rudd of Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 14: Chew family history, 1914

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Chew family.  Other family names listed include Spotswood, Beverly, Randolph, Stanard, Johnson, Green, Brock and Howard.  Geographic locations listed include Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Annapolis, Maryland, Germantown, Pennsylvania and New York.

Folder 15: Chiles Family Research, 1977

Narrative description and descendants list for Walter Chiles, born 1600 in England, and later of Jamestown, Virginia. Alternative spelling of the last name is Childs.  Other family names listed include Page, Tyler, McConchie, Lewis, Carr, and Strother.  Other geographic locations listed include James City County, Virginia, New Kent County, Virginia, Hanover County, Virginia, Culpepper County, Virginia, and Fauquier County, Virginia.  Received from Mr. R. K. T. Larson in 1977.

Folder 16: Chinn family research, 1906

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Chinn family (alternatively spelled Chyne and Chin) beginning with John Chinn.  Geographic locations listed include Lancaster County, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Richmond, Virginia.

Folder 17: Chiswell family history, undated

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Chiswell family, beginning with Charles Chiswell in Williamsburg, Virginia.  Other family names listed include Randolph, Robinson, Griffin, Lewis, Peyton, Brooke, Byrd, Marshall, Fox, Oliver, Barrett, Throckmorton, Carter, Page, Stanard and Nelson.  Geographic locations listed include Gloucester County, Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Hanover Town, Virginia and Yorktown, Virginia.

Folder 18: Christian Family History, undated

Narrative description and descendants of the Thomas Christian family in Virginia.  Other family names listed include Hatton, Woodson, Walton, Danniell, Huckstop, Leako, Humber, Grisholm, Payno, and Chisholm.  Geographic locations listed include Charles City County, Virginia, Henrico County, Virginia, New Kent County, Virginia, Amelia County, Virginia, Prince Edward County, Virginia, Wilkes County, Georgia, Richmond County, Georgia, and Elbert County, Georgia. Written by Dorothy Holland, Certified Genealogist of Morrow, Georgia.

Folder 19: Clay family history, 1913

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Clay family (alternatively spelled Claye), beginning with Captain John Clay who emigrated to Virginia in 1613.  Other family names listed include Wilson, Mitchell, Green, Lewis, Williams, Kezee, Bowen, Saunders, Hudson, Hart, Cherry, Stevenson, Tuggle, Oliver, Watson, Lawler, Harrison, Smith, Casey, Warfield, Walker, Burnett, Muss, Johnson, Comer, Lea, Withers, Tunstall, Gayden, Cage, Redhead, Perkins, Woodside, Roberts, Kemp, Batcheler, Harrell, McKnight, Holmes, Webb, Henson, Battles, and Pass.  Geographic locations listed include Chesterfield County, Virginia, San Francisco, California, Columbus, Mississippi, Richmond, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Farmington, Missouri, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Oakland College, Mississippi.

Folder 20: Clay family research, 1973

Ancestor chart for the Clay family, beginning with Susan Clay, born 28 September 1914.  Compiled by Susan Clay Boone, Portsmouth, Virginia.  Other family names listed include Miller, Sharp, Kiel, Snider, Doner, Kepler, Cochran, Evans, Moor, Ellis and Boone.  Geographic locations listed include Ohio, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Germany, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania, Greenfield, Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, Columbus, Indiana, La Jolla, California, Germantown, Indiana, Rockford, Illinois and Morton Grove, Illinois.

Folder 21: Clements family history, 1914

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Clements family of Virginia, beginning with Elizabeth Clements who emigrated in 1611.  Other family names listed include Homor, Hamve, Meriweather, Hill, Johnson, Smith, Cooke, Morrison, Lee, Carter, Taliaferro and Wright.  Geographic locations listed include Surry, Virginia, Amelia County, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Campbell County, Virginia, Halifax County, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia, Tennessee, and Colorado.

Folder 22: Cobbs family research, 1913-1915

Newspaper genealogy columns regarding the Cobbs family (alternatively spelled Cobb), beginning with Edmund Cobbs (born approximately 1720) of Goochland County, Virginia. Other family names listed include Lewis, Tomkins, Staples, Hamner, Noel, Storrs, Mitchell, Pegues, Woodfin, Westcott, Dunforth, Hurter, Avery, Tunstall, Randolph, Jones, Stollenwerck, Jack, Castleman, Selden, Stringfellow, Ellerbe, Leonard, Clay, Morrell, Lee, Sheetz and Davidson.  Other geographic locations listed include Bedford County, Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia, Cincinnati, Ohio, Montgomery, Alabama, Charleston, West Virginia, Mobile, Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Shreveport, Alabama, Yorktown, Virginia, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Elizabeth City County, Virginia, York County, Virginia, Lincoln County, North Carolina and Greensboro, North Carolina.

Folder 23: Cocke family research, 1931-1968

Newspaper genealogy columns, Virginia Cavalcade Magazine and Virginia Historical Magazine articles, and a pamphlet written by William Ronald Cocke, Jr. published in 1931, regarding the Cocke family of Virginia.  Biographical information about General John Hartwell Cocke (born 1780, died 1866) details his involvement in the temperance movement, American Colonization Society, and as an advocate for the education of slaves.  Geographic locations listed include Charles City County, Virginia, Smithfield, Virginia, Fluvanna County, Virginia, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Princess Anne County, Virginia, Salisbury, Virginia, Henrico County, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, Surry County, Virginia, James City County, Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia, Gloucester County, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, Caroline County, Virginia and Amelia County, Virginia.

Folder 24: Cockrill family history, undated

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Cockrill (alternatively spelled Cockeril and Cockerill) family of Virginia, beginning with the enlistment of John Cockrill in 1756. Other family names listed include Fox, Johnston, Roberts, Evans, Robertson, Reeves, Underwood, Harding, Farrar, Hawkins, Rowe, Butler, Burruss, Stringfield, Pulliam, Dibell, Jones, Goodloe, Galbreath, Collingsworth, Beazley, Bourland, McDonald, Moore, Malone, Blackwell, Turner, DeLoney and Newell.  Geographic locations listed include Richmond County, Virginia, Maury County, Tennessee, Davidson County, Tennessee, Wake County, North Carolina, Tuscumbia, Alabama, Saline County, Missouri, Nashville, Tennessee, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Mount Nebo, Arkansas, Cornersville, Tennessee and Richmond, Texas.

Folder 25: Cofer Family Research, 1965

Photograph, patent submission, and transcription of a patent approval for a gun modification for Thomas W. Cofer from the Confederate States of America, dated August 12, 1861. Family letters regarding Thomas W. Cofer and family.  Other family names listed include Saunders, Simcae, Dalley, and Whaley.  Geographic locations listed include Portsmouth, Virginia, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 26: Cole family history, 1914

Newspaper genealogy column regarding the Cole family, beginning with William Cole who emigrated to Virginia in 1618.  Other family names listed include Digges, Leas, Roscow, Bassett, Burwell, Wilson, Leigh, Wills, Robinson, Condon, Barclay, Martin, Boxley, Dickinson and Sandidge. Geographic locations listed include Warwick County, Virginia, Charles City County, Virginia, Goochland County, Virginia, Louisa County, Virginia, Fluvanna County, Virginia, New Kent County, Virginia and Tennessee.

Folder 27: Coleman family history, 1908

Newspaper genealogy columns regarding the Coleman family, beginning with Henry Coleman who emigrated to Elizabeth City County, Virginia in 1632.  Family names listed include Watlington, Barksdale, Thompson, Terry, Boyd, Hurt, Sydnor, Logan, Williams, Baker, Graves, Lindsay, Saunders, Key, Childs, Cocke and Morris.  Other geographic locations listed include Spotsylvania County, Virginia, King William County, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, Orange County, Virginia, Culpeper County, Virginia, Amherst County, Virginia, Georgia, Carolina County, Virginia, Maryland, Williamsburg, Virginia, Hanover County, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Athens, Alabama and Kentucky.

Folder 28: Collins family history, 1966

Notes regarding the Collins family, compiled by Troy Young Collins and given to the Public Library of Norfolk on July 22, 1966.  Geographic locations listed include Shenandoah County, Virginia, Jefferson County, Tennessee, DeKalb County, Alabama, Rhea County, Tennessee, Paris, Texas, New Jersey, Washington County, North Carolina, Sussex County, Delaware, Orange County, North Carolina, Limestone County, Alabama, Harrison County, West Virginia and Albemarle County, Virginia.

Folder 29: Collins Family Research, 1978

Pedigree chart with additional notes beginning with Lonnie Orten Collins, born 1891 in Christian City, Kentucky, married to Blanche Leasure in 1916, and died in 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky.  Family names listed include Orten, Duncan, Hamby, Lantrip, and Croft.  Geographic locations listed include South Carolina, McMinn City, Tennessee, Athens, Tennessee, Christian City, Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, Madisonville, Kentucky, and Hopkins City, Kentucky. Compiled by Dorothy Collins Davis of Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 30: Compton family history, 1976

Ancestor chart and supporting worksheets for the Compton family, beginning with Luvenia Compton Etheridge, born 22 August 1948.  Compiled by Luvenia Compton Etheridge, Norfolk, Virginia.  Other family names listed include Johnson, Kilgore, Swimme, Cooke, Ringley, Flack, Bailey, McElroy, Whittle, Herren, Murphy, Gibson, Etheridge, Grier, Ward, Marsh, Smith, Faddis, Norris, Kemp, Watson, Lee, Black, Williams, Hughes and Walker.  Geographic locations listed include Norton, Virginia, Urbana, Illinois, St. Paul, Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, Jackson, North Carolina, Bristol, Tennessee, Wise, Virginia, Brewton, Alabama, Hartselle, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Cohutta, Georgia, Morgan County, Alabama, Orange County, North Carolina, Frederick County, Maryland, England and Apple Grove, Alabama.

Folder 31: Congleton Family Research, 1954

Pedigree chart beginning with William Congleton, born unknown, married to Sarah, and died in 1755 with his will recorded in Beaufort County, North Carolina.  Family names listed include Newton, Piper, Gault, Allen, Wilson, Sanford, Walker, Brown, Fleming, Powell, Chambers, Howell, Brough, Blair, Croxton, Colliver, Pierce, Condit, Comingore and Taylor.  Geographic locations listed include Bourbon County, Kentucky, Williamsburg, Virginia, Washington, North Carolina, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia, and Beaufort County, North Carolina. Also family bible records and family record ledger book.  Accompanying letter including descendants lists written by Dr. Clinton Congleton, DDS, of Barbourville, Kentucky.

Folder 32: Conner-Coverly Family Research, 2008

Lineage charts, narrative descriptions, descendants lists, photocopies of photographs, transcriptions of legal documents and bible records for the Conner-Coverly Family.  Family names listed include Calvert, Daines, Lawson, Powell, Gookin, Wishart, Thoroughgood, Ingram, Walkes, Mason, Seawell, Craford, Shelton, Hillen, Davis, Stanworth, Wing, Garrett, and Todd.  Geographic locations listed include Norfolk County, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, Elizabeth River Parish, Virginia, Eustis Lake, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Belton, South Carolina, Mansfield, Ohio, and Newport News, Virginia.  Submitted by Mrs. Wing Sigler or Umatilla, Florida.