365 WFCHS 

Inventory created by Archives Staff 09/2003. Revised by staff 07/2018.

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: 0.21 linear feet

DATE:  1856-1929

SCOPE AND CONTENT:  This collection contains letters addressed to Virginia “Alice” Parkins from 1856 to 1929. The letters are from one of her teachers at the Valley Female Institute, her brother Alfred, while serving with the 7^th Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War, and various other relatives.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Virginia “Alice” Parkins was born April 13, 1845 in Frederick County, VA to Alfred and Eliza Hollingsworth Parkins. She was a student at the Valley Female Institute before the Civil War. Her brother, Alfred, served in the 7^th Virginia Cavalry. Miss Parkins never married, and died in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 1931. She is buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, VA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY : Obituary, Winchester Evening Star, March 25, 1931; Parkins, Virginia, Tombstone, Mount Hebron Cemetery. 

CITE AS: Virginia Alice Parkins Papers, 365 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift. 

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1 

Parkins, Alice—Correspondence 1856-1926; 15 letters, manuscript: 

Bible, 1 volume, inscribed December 25, 1898 with handwritten inscription from Alice Parkin’s uncle, Samuel D. Buck.