Finding Aid to the Harriett Adaline Chilton Research Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
HARRIETT ADALINE CHILTON (1912-1994) RESEARCH PAPERS
BOX 1

1-1 Bible of Mrs. Joseph Henry MORRISS, Jr.
1-2 Bicentennial Biography of Raleigh CHILTON
1-3 C. H. CHILTON's Union Academy Records (1860-1874)
1-4 CHILTON-ELLIOTT Bible
1-5 Concord Library Company of Campbell (1822)
1-6 Contributions to the UDC by Maude Blake MERCHANT (Pres. Gen.
1927-1929)
1-7 Farm Workers in 1868-1882 and 1901-1912 in Appomattox County, VA
1-8 First Battle of Manassas
1-9 Hundred HUNTER Cousins
1-10 Importance of the Battle of Sayler's Creek
1-11 John HUNTER, Soldier of the Revolution 1776-1781
1-12 Life in the Confederate Prison Camp at Point Lookout, Maryland
1-13 Minutes, Quarterly Conference, Appomattox Charge, Lynchburg Dist.
(1880-1883)
1-14 Minutes, Quarterly Conference, Appomattox Charge (1880-1883)
(Photocopy of original)
1-15 Minutes of Session, Old Concord Presb. Church, 1826-1878
1-16 Miscellaneous (includes research on Chilton property 1991)

BOX 2

2-1 Our Confederate Ancestors
2-2 Record of Appomattox Quarterly Meeting Conference, Methodist
Church 1861-1875
2-3 Reedy Spring Academy (1840-1875)
2-4 Report of an Indian Massacre in Henrico County, VA in 1694
2-5 Robert A[lexander] CHEATHAM Bible
2-6 Role of Second Virginia Cavalry during War Between the States
2-7 Roster of the Appomattox Reserves
2-8 Second Battle of Manassas
2-9 Some Appomattox Co. Civil War Veterans Listed in the 1910 Census
2-10 Some Appomattox Co. School Attendance Rolls 1907-1913
2-11 Stonewall's Liberty Hall Boys
2-12 Sunday School Records, Salem Methodist Church, Spout Spring, VA,
1924-25, 1933-34
2-13 Surrender at Appomattox and Immediately Afterward (April 9-12, 1865)
(Continued)
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Union Academy - Meetings, Board of Trustees
Union Academy - Meetings, Board of Trustees (Photocopy of original)
Union Academy, Spout Spring, VA
William Alexander ELLIOTT (1813-1865) - His Ancestors and
Descendants
"Appomattox County 1845-1945 Centennial" (C.W. SMITH)
Appomattox Historical Society
"Battle of Appomattox Station" (F.P. CAUBLE)
"History of Appomattox County Schools" (J.I. ASHER)
"History of Public Schools of Appomattox County" (J.B. BRISTOW)
"Journey of the Yorktown Prisoners to Winchester, Va., and Frederick,
Md." (H.A. CHILTON)
"Petitions to Form Appomattox..." (H.A. CHILTON)
"Recollections and Reminiscences of Appomattox..." (G.T. PEERS)

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
HARRIETT ADALINE CHILTON (1912-1994)
Harriett Adaline CHILTON, daughter of William Chapman CHILTON and Jemima
Sue CHEATHAM, was born 5 September 1912, in Appomattox County, Virginia.
[Harriett A. Chilton, "Robert A. CHILTON Bible" (Falls Church, VA: Author, 1973), p. 14), Harriett A.
CHILTON Research Papers, MS1289, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA. (hereinafter CHILTON
MS).]

During World War II, Miss CHILTON served in the Women's Army Corps. [Harriett A.
Chilton, "Our Confederate Ancestors" (Falls Church, VA: Robert E. Lee Chapter No. 56, U.D.C., 1971), p.
5, CHILTON MS.] She was a charter member of the Appomattox County Historical
Society, established in 1975. [Harriett A. Chilton, "Hundred HUNTER Cousins" [Falls Church, VA:
Author, 1976), p. 3, CHILTON MS.]
A resident of Falls Church, Virginia, Harriett CHILTON was a member and historian
of the Robert E. Lee Chapter, No. 56, United Daughters of the Confederacy. She
received the UDC Cross of Military Service based on the service of her grandfather,
Robert Alexander CHEATHAM, in the War between the States. [Chilton, "Our Confederate
Ancestors," loc.cit.]

Miss CHILTON retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1971. "Her hobby
and passion in retirement was the continuous pursuit and preservation of the history of
families and community records in the Appomattox area." [Obituary, Lynchburg News and
Advance, 3 November 1994, Sect. B, p. 2 col. 1.]

Additionally, Harriett CHILTON was a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Colonial Dames, and the Jamestown Society. "Of all her accomplishments,
she was proudest of her part in the preservation of Wesley Chapel Church." [Obituary,
loc.cit.]

An avid researcher, Harriett Adaline CHILTON compiled a vast wealth of historical
data on her native Appomattox County. She died 2 November 1994 at her home in Falls
Church and was buried, with military honors, at the Salem United Methodist Church,
Spout Spring, Virginia. [Ibid.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
HARRIETT ADALINE CHILTON (1912-1994) RESEARCH PAPERS
The collection includes research papers by Harriett A. CHILTON, along with
transcriptions of church and school records, mostly relating to her family or to
Appomattox County, Virginia.

[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]

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