Finding Aid to the Collette Family Genealogical Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
COLLETTE FAMILY GENEALOGICAL PAPERS
The collection includes Ruth Burton COLLETTE’s manuscript, Here We Are,
tracing the COLLETTE, HENDRICKS, BURKE and BURTON families and allied lines.
Other items included are research notes from the various states whose libraries she
visited, papers such as land transfers and wills of her various ancestors, and a genealogy
of the COLLETTE family.
BOX 1
1–1
1–2
1–3
1–4
1–5
1–6
1–7
1–8

Here We Are manuscript

Collette genealogy
Isaac Collet (ca 1760-1809)
Abraham Collet (1781-1847)
John E. Collet (1822-1903)
Ellen H. Collette (1862?-1933)
Herman D. Collette (1893-1960)
Ruth Burton Collette (1917- )
Collette descendants 20th century

BOX 2

1–9 Tennessee research notes
1–10 Virginia research notes
1–11 North Carolina research notes
1–12 South Carolina research notes
1–13 Daughters of the American Revolution
1–14 Correspondence
1–15 Miscellaneous

2-1 Cobbs miscellaneous court records
2-2 Hendricks genealogy & miscellaneous court records
2-3 Hudson genealogy
2-4 Stephen Jones genealogy & miscellaneous court records
2-5 McIntosh, miscellaneous notes and court records
2-6 Morrow: deed from Robert & Chanie Morrow to James Morrow
2-7 Singletary miscellaneous data & court records
2-8 Stonecipher miscellaneous data & court records
2-9 Sutton military and court records
2-10 Whitworth miscellaneous court records
2-11 “Beginning With Pepin” by Ruth B. Collette [Farrar/Ferrer/Farrer]

RUTH BURTON COLLETTE (1917- )
Ruth Burton Collette began researching her family in 1982. Her research took her
to the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, as far back as
Abraham Collet, who was born about 1710.

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