Creed F. Flanary Account Books,
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains account books of Creed Fulton Flanary, a general store merchant in Wise County, Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection includes three daybooks, in which the store's transactions were recorded in chronological order, providing for each transaction the customer's name, date of transaction, goods purchased, and prices. Within the last daybook are entries for a separate millinery account from 1906 to 1908. Also included in the collection are five ledgers, in which the same information was entered, but with the account information recorded under the customers' names. The final volume records only the customer names, references to other ledgers, and account balances.
Dates
- Creation: 1871 - 1908
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Creed F. Flanary Account Books must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Note
Creed Fulton Flanary, the son of Elkanah and Nancy Young Flanary, was born in Lee County, Virginia in November, 1844. Flanary joined the Confederate Army at Camp Lane (Lee County) in September 1861, enlisting in Company G of the 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry. By February 1863, he had risen to the rank of sergeant. He was taken prisoner at Cumberland Gap in September 1863 and remained a prisoner at Camp Douglas (Chicago) until released in June 1865. Returning to Virginia, Flanary married Sarah "Sally" Caroline Litton in 1870, and the couple would have 13 children. In Wise County, Flanary established a large general mercantile business under the name C. F. Flanary and Company. He also became president of the Norton Wholesale Grocery Company. In 1883, Flanary was elected to the state senate and served one term. In addition to his Wise County businesses, Flanary held business concerns as far away as Roanoke and owned two farms in Lee County. At the time of his death on April 14, 1910, Flanary was said to have been one of the wealthiest men in Southwest Virginia and the wealthiest in Wise County.
Full Extent
1.4 Cubic Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Account books--including daybooks and ledgers--maintained by Creed F. Flanary, a general store merchant in Wise County, Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by volume type, then chronologically.
Acquisition Information
The Creed F. Flanary Account Books were donated to Special Collections Prior to 1941.
Physical Characteristics
1.4 cu. ft. 4 boxes
- Title
- A Guide to the Creed F. Flanary Account Books, 1871-1908
- Subtitle
- A collection in Special Collections.
- Author
- John M. Jackson
- Date
- ©2012 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu