Box 2

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Contents note

This subseries is comprised of Germanicus Kent's letters to his sons and his brother Aratus. He discusses investments, family, and Lewis Lemon (Kent), who bought his freedom from Kent ca. 1835.

Scope and Contents note

This folder contains four family letters presumed to pertain to the extended Kent Amiss family. The correspondents are Edith Boggs, David and E. Cook, Mary Sloutermires, William G., and his son Nelson.

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Papers of the Black, Kent, and Apperson Families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia, span the years 1779 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1821 to 1948. They are comprised of the Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account...

Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series is comprised primarily of five ledgers containing alphabetically indexed customer account histories for various mercantile establishments, probably in Blacksburg. Also included are documents and correspondence pertaining to Black family investments in oil drilling operations in Texas, 1912-1924.