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Larry Veach 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

690 THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 09/1987. Last revised 02/2019.

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

CREATOR: Veach, Larry

DATE: 1788 -2007

ALTERNATIVE FORM AVAILABLE: Digitized 2007. Master TIFF images held on GSU disc 013-08 (not online).

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Larry Veach Collection contains genealogical materials on the Amick, Braithwaite, Cocke, Strother, Hiett, and Veach families. There are also lists of ministers in Frederick County before 1850 and post offices in West Virginia (in counties that were formerly Frederick County).

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Larry Veach is a minister in Winchester, VA, and served as a volunteer with the Handley Library Archives from 1987 to 1996.

CITE AS: Larry Veach Collection, 690 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1 

Bible record of Jacob Amick family, 1792-1892, 6 leaves, manuscript (photocopy)

Descendants of Jacob Amick, 44 leaves, typescript

DAR application of William Braithwaite, 8 pages, manuscript (2 copies, photocopy)

Chart, descendants of William Braithwaite, 75 leaves, typescript

Payment from estate of John Carper, 1858, 1 page, manuscript

Bible record of the Cocke/Strother family, 1788-1838, 2 pages, typescript

List of Frederick County ministers before 1850, compiled by Larry Veach, 1991, 7 leaves, typescript

Fractur of Mary Elizabeth Grove, 1826, 2 leaves, manuscript (photocopy)

DAR application of Evan Hiett, 1 item, 4 leaves, typescript (photocopy)

Bible record of Strother family, including Kerns family, 1827-1912, 1 item, 4 leaves, manuscript (photocopy)

Veaches in the American Revolution, 1 item, 2 leaves, typescript (photocopy)

List of West Virginia post offices (counties which were formerly Frederick County), 2 leaves, typescript (photocopy)

PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographs belonging to this collection may be viewed through PastPerfect, which is available at http://handley.pastperfectonline.com