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RIchard Adams Collection

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society

P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

1488 THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 08/2000. Last revised 01/2022.

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.

USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright.

EXTENT:  0.84 linear feet

CREATOR: Adams, Richard

DATE: 1989-1996

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Richard Adams collection contains materials concerning the genealogy of the Strother, Adams, Moore, and Taylor families.                             

CITE AS: Richard Adams Collection, 1488 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

House of Strother, 1993, 1 item, printed (photocopy)

Strother–Descendancy Chart, 1993, 1 item, printed

Strother and Some Allied Lines, 1980, 1 item, printed (photocopy)

Strother Family Crest, 1 item, printed

Strother Family Directory, 1996, 1 item, printed

Strother family genealogy material, 5 leaves, manuscript and printed (photocopy)

Strother family–Genealogy material from Tylers Quarterly, 1 item, printed (photocopy)

Strother Family of Virginia, 1 item, printed

Strother Reunion–4th Biennial, 1992, 1 item, printed

Strother–5th Biennial Conference, 1994, 2 items, printed (photocopy) (2 copies)

Strother–National Conference, 1996, 1 item, printed

Strother, William Browse Book–957 Indexed Descendants, 1994, 1 item, printed

BOX 2

Adams, Eleanor Davis Appell–D.A.R. application and documentation, 1989, un-numbered leaves, 1 postcard

Adams, Eleanor Davis Appell–D.A.R. Grave Marking Memorial Ceremony Program, May 19, 1996, 2 items, 1 page, printed

Adams, Eleanor Davis Appell–Genealogy material, unnumbered leaves

Adams, Eleanor Davis Appell–Miscellaneous, 11 items; 1 item, 3 leaves, printed; 1 badge; 3 newspaper articles; 2 pages, printed; 3 leaves, typescript; 1 leaf, manuscript

Adams, Eleanor Davis Appell –National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, application and documentation, 1992, unnumbered leaves

Adams, Eleanor Davis Appell–D.A.R. and C.D. XVII Century membership certificates, 2 leaves, manuscript on printed form

Baltimore Area Families, by Raymond B. Clark, Jr., booklet, 49 pages, printed

D.A.R.–Ft. Loudoun Chapter–Miscellaneous, 5 leaves, printed; 6 pages, printed; 1 page, printed with manuscript; 1 page, with envelope with manuscript

Moore Family–Tombstone list from Level Green, Jefferson County, WV, Oct.1974, 3 leaves, typescript

Taylor, Richard–Descendants (from Baltimore Area Families), 2 items, 4 leaves, printed (photocopy) (2 copies)

Taylor Family–Genealogy material, 2 items, 3 leaves, printed (photocopy); 1 leaf, typescript