Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

The Jeremiah W. Graves Collection includes a cash book, correspondence, receipts and ledger pages, newspaper clippings, and genealogy materials relating to the personal and business activities of Captain Jeremiah White Graves (1801-1878), a farmer and financial advisor/real estate broker/slave broker in Cedar Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia,

Genealogical materials in the collection relate to the histories for branches of the Graves, Whitehead, Hunt, and Jones families.

The collection consists of a microfilm copy of Graves' extensive diary, and a typescript manuscript of selected transcribed passages from that diary. In his diary, Graves refers to working his farm, the sale of Negroes in the area, and his children's schooling. During the Civil War years Graves mentions the fighting and the war's end. After the war he comments that Negroes could vote while he could not.

Materials, including biographical sketches and speech texts, relating to William F. Graves, native of Pittsylvania County, Virginia and major in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War.

Papers of Floyd Gray, Bedford County Republican Committee chairman and distillery general storekeeper-gauger for the Internal Revenue Service. Includes correspondence and notes relating both to Gray's political activities and his civil service work. Also includes personal correspondence and financial records.

Map shows Abingdon, Virginia, with plot owners identified.

Map shows the corporation limit of Christiansburg, Virginia, with hand-colored boundary line and non-corporate entities.

Map shows the town of Fincastle in Botetourt County, Virginia. It contains the names of property owners in the town, as well as locations of structures on land parcels.

Map of Richmond comes from pages 63-64 of Gray's The National Atlas, published in 1884. This item has been extracted from a full book, and its reverse (p. 63) is part of the map that shows Maryland and Delaware.

Map shows Wytheville, Virginia, with plot owners identified.

The collection consists of a summons issued by Samuel D [?] to Thomas Greatton on May 21, 1790.