R. C. Ballard Thruston Correspondence,1940-1942

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Title

R. C. Ballard Thruston Correspondence

Date

1940-1942

Repository

The Filson Historical Society Special Collections Louisville, Kentucky 40208 USA

Conditions Governing Access note

Open to researchers.

Preferred Citation Note

[Identification of item], R. C. Ballard Thruston Correspondence, 1940-1942, Special Collections, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville.

Extent

3 v.

Scope and Content

Louisville geological engineer, researcher, historian, collector, and president and benefactor of The Filson Club. Correspondence with Lucy Brown Beale of Hague, Va., describes genealogical research on the ancestral families of Thruston, including typed extracts from the order books of Westmoreland County, Va., 1663 -1750, and Caroline County, Va., containing information on the Pope, Rogers, Clark, Oldham, Marshall, Lisson, Wilson, and Richards families; cemetery inscriptions at Bushfield, Va., for the Bushrod Family; and wills for Nathaniel Pope, 1659, and Original Brown, 1697. Card index in repository

Subjects

• Beale, Lucy Brown.
• Brown, Original, fl.1697-- Will.
• Bushrod Family.
• Clark Family.
• Kentucky-- Genealogy.
• Lee Family.
• Lisson Family.
• Marshall Family.
• Oldham Family.
• Pope, Nathaniel, fl. 1659-- Will.
• Pope Family.
• Richards Family.
• Rogers Family.
• Virginia-- Genealogy.
• Wilson Family.