Finding Aid to the Ella Verna Robertson Genealogical Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
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ELLA VERNA ROBERTSON (1896-1981) GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION
The collection includes notes on the Robertson and allied families of Virginia. Of
particular interest is the family of James Burroughs and Elizabeth Robertson, owners of the
slave, Booker T. Washington.
BOX 1

ROBERTSON, GOGGIN, BURROUGHS, PARKER families

BOX 2

ROBERTSON, FERGUSON, TENCH, LAW, GILBERT, HOLLAND,
BOOTHE, MOULTON families and Index to entire collection.

ELLA VERNA ROBERTSON (1896-1981)
Ella Verna Robertson, daughter of Stanhope Robertson and Hattie Susie Moulton, was
born 22 November 1896 in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was trained as a nurse at Jefferson
Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia, and worked as a private duty nurse for ten years. She studied
secretarial work at National Business College in Roanoke and was employed by Eubank &
Cardwell, Inc., architects and engineers of Roanoke. Miss Robertson died April 15, 1981, at
Moneta, Virginia.
[Ella Verna Robertson Genealogical Collection, MSS1291, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Va.]

MS1291