Finding aid to the Elizabeth White Hamner Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(804) 846-0501
THE ELIZABETH WHITE HAMNER (1855-1921) PAPERS
The collection includes the papers of Mrs. Elizabeth White HAMNER relating to her
membership in the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
Lynchburg, Virginia. Included are talks delivered by Mrs. HAMNER, minutes of the
Seventh Annual Meeting of the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution kept by
Mrs. HAMNER, and a history of the Blue Ridge Chapter written by Mrs. HAMNER.
Also included is a certificate from Governor STUART of Virginia appointing Mrs.
HAMNER as a delegate to the Star-Spangled Banner Centennial Celebration, held in
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1914.
BOX 1

1-1 "History of the Daughters of the American
Revolution" [Talk]
1-2 "Southern Women in Colonial Times" [Talk]
1-3 Minutes, 7th Annual Conference, Daughters of
the American Revolution, Virginia
1-4 "History of the Blue Ridge Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution"
1-5 Certificate, Delegate, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Star-Spangled Banner Centennial

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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ELIZABETH WHITE HAMNER (1855-1921)
Elizabeth ("Bettie C.") WHITE, daughter of Samuel Garland WHITE and Sarah
COLE, was born 28 December 1855 in Albemarle County, Virginia. ["Elizabeth White
Hamner, No. 1864," Lineage Book, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution [Vol.
2] (Washington, D.C.: NSDAR, 1896), p. 344; "Marriage of E. C. Hamner and Bettie C. White,"
Lynchburg Virginian, 1 October 1877, p. 3 col. 3; Burial record, Diuguid Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA,
Book 19, p. 129, microfilmed records, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

At Ivy Depot, Albemarle County, Virginia, Elizabeth WHITE married 26 September
1877 Edward Chambers HAMNER. ["Marriage of E. C. Hamner and Bettie C. White," loc.cit.;
"Elizabeth White Hamner, No. 1864," loc.cit.]

In 1893, Elizabeth White HAMNER was appointed as organizing regent to form a
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lynchburg. The Blue Ridge
Chapter was chartered on 2 October 1895. ["History of the Blue Ridge Chapter, National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution, 1893-1954," Mss., Daughters of the American Revolution. Blue
Ridge Chapter., Papers, MS1147, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA; Jennie Thornley Grayson,
compiler, History of the Virginia State Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Charlottesville:
Michie Co., 1930), p. 95.]

Elizabeth White HAMNER died 19 June 1921 at her home in Lynchburg, Virginia.
She was buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery. ["Obituary of Elizabeth White Hamner," Lynchburg
News, 21 June 1921, p. 8 col. 5; Burial record, loc.cit.]

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