Finding Aid to the Ada Byron McDaniel Nolan Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
ADA BYRON McDANIEL NOLAN (1917-2010) COLLECTION
The collection includes genealogical notes by Ada McDaniel Nolan on the
McDaniel, Steptoe and allied families. Several miscellaneous photograph albums, a carte
de visite album, and miscellaneous pamphlets and historical notes are also included, as
well as rosters and miscellaneous correspondence of the Eskridge Family Association.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
ADA BYRON McDANIEL NOLAN (1917-2010) COLLECTION
The collection includes genealogical notes by Ada McDaniel Nolan on the
McDaniel, Steptoe and allied families. Several miscellaneous photograph albums, a carte
de visite album, and miscellaneous pamphlets and historical notes are also included, as
well as rosters and miscellaneous correspondence of the Eskridge Family Association.
BOX 1

Genealogical Notes
1-1
Anthony
1-2
Bibb
1-3
Callaway
1-4
Crenshaw
1-5
Draper
1-6
Eskridge
1-7
Foxhall-Vaulx

BOX 2

Genealogical Notes/Historical Notes
2-1
Steptoe
2-2
Lee R. Steptoe (Letter & photos)
2-3
T. I. Steptoe
2-4
Tate
2-5
Thornhill
2-6
Episcopal churches, Bedford County, Va.
2-7
Miscellaneous pamphlets and notes
2-8
Miscellaneous photographs
2-9
Miscellaneous post cards
2-10 Miscellaneous artifacts
2-11 Shenandoah Valley Academy, The Shenandoah (1937) (2 copies),
Shenandoah Valley Academy, Class of 1937

BOX 3

Eskridge Family Association – Rosters (1940s-1950s) and miscellaneous
correspondence (1940-1981)

BOX 4

Miscellaneous framed photographs and carte de visite album

BOX 5

Photograph albums (3) (one identified as Sam Bo. McDaniel) and Post
card album

1-8
1-9
1-10
1-11
1-12
1-13
1-14

Hobson
Mayo
McDaniel
Nolan
Penn
Povall
Robinson

(Continued)

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BOX 6

Historical Calendar (1980), 1980 Lynchburg in Virginia; Two (2) large
folders – Family Tree of Ada Byron McDaniel; Scrapbook of clippings;
Poetry copy book; Rolled chart – Robinson Family; Victorian Sterling
Silver change purse with chain
ADA BYRON McDANIEL NOLAN (1917-2010)

Ada Byron McDaniel, the daughter of Samuel Marshall McDaniel and Elizabeth
Louise Steptoe, was born 15 December 1917 in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was a 1937
graduate of the Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market, Virginia, and attended
Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, where she met her husband, Russell
Elwood Nolan. They were married 1 October 1940. He died 29 December 1959. They
were the parents of two children.
During the 1960s, Ada Nolan was a mathematician at the Dahlgren Naval
Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. In 1970, she returned to Lynchburg.
An avid genealogist, Ada McDaniel Nolan was a member of the Blue Ridge
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, in Lynchburg. She was also a member
of the Eskridge Family Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
A faithful member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, Ada Byron
McDaniel Nolan died on 10 June 2010. She was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
[Obituary, The News & Advance (Lynchburg, Va.), 12 June 2010, Section B, p. 2, col. 3.]

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