This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Social life and crimes mix in Virginia and nearby towns
Reports detail Mrs May Kee a social figure in Indianapolis and a Chinese merchant’s wife, a staged visit with epicurean cuisine, Stolen stamps and jewels worth 1200 at Millboro Springs, poison scares in Winchester and farm rail property sales in Farmville, plus local court divorces, drownings, and Odd Fellows milestones across Bristol Leesburg Warrenton and Lynchburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Kee
Indianapolis
Boosier
Li Hung Chang
May
Husaa
Millboro Springs
Palma Hawkins
Winchester
Joseph Fawcett
Haynes
Bristol Chancery Court
Robert Pile
Mary Pile
Pile
Charlottesville
Bristol
Edw. P. Rouse
Nor~ie
Irs
Portsuth
Ofice
Catogni Bros
Roanoke
Johnson City
Tenn
Christian Church
City National Bank
Cargall's
Webb Bros
William Silver
Charlottesille
University of Virginia
John A. Shishmanian
Chas. T. Talley
Bermuda Hundred
Monroe Kelly
Stafford County
Rappahannock
Hopeyard
Kelly
Richard Wallach
Warrenton
George H. Chewning
Fredericksburg
Fenton
Drewryville
Thomas Young
T. P. Wynn
Wynn
Oudoun Lodge
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Leesburg
Virginia
William H. Thomas
Old Dominion
Daughters of the Confederacy
Lynchburg
Ruth N. Early
Jubal Early
A. J. Dickey
Franklin
Richmond
Far East
Norfolk
Mander Henry B. Wilson
San Francisco
Asiatic Station
Oregon
Cincinnati