Finding Aid to the Cranston Williams, Jr. Genealogical Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
CRANSTON WILLIAMS, JR., GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION
The collection includes genealogical charts, clippings, photographs, and correspondence
regarding the Hutter-Williams family and allied families.
[Detailed finding guide available with collection.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
CRANSTON WILLIAMS, JR., GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION
The collection includes genealogical charts, clippings, photographs, and correspondence
regarding the Hutter-Williams family and allied families.
BOX 1

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5

Hutter family I
Hutter family II
Hutter family III
Hutter family IV
Hutter family V

BOX 2

2-1
2-2
2-3
2-4
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8

Hutter family (Immediate family)
Hutter family (Claudine Hutter notes)
Hutter family (Descendants of Col. Christian Jacob Hutter)
Correspondence (Stanley T. Hutter)
Hutter family (Pictures and portraits)
Hutter family (Virginia Military Institute)
Family group sheets I
Family group sheets II

BOX 3

3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-5
3-6
3-7
3-8
3-9
3-10

Poplar Forest I
Poplar Forest II
Poplar Forest III
Anderson family
Booker family
Cobbs family
Griffin family
Hare family I
Hare family II
Hare family III

BOX 4

4-1
4-2
4-3
4-4
4-5
4-6
4-7
4-8

Hare family IV
Hare family (Miscellaneous notes)
Hare family (Other states)
Johnson/Nance family
Lewis family
Captain Nicholas Martiau (Stephenson, Jonathan Kennon, 1969)
Martiau/Reade family
Reade family
(Continued)
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
CRANSTON WILLIAMS, JR., GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION, Contd.
BOX 4

4-9
4-10

Scott family I
Scott family II (Scott family history, Williams, 1998)

BOX 5

5-1
5-2
5-3
5-4
5-5
5-6
5-7
5-8
5-9

Scott family III
Selden family
Williams family I
Williams family II
Williams family III
Ancestral Homes
“Peacock” (Ship)
Warner Hall
Miscellaneous Notes

BOX 6

6-1

Envelope containing family information on flash drive and internet
addresses of family members
Budgeting for Newspapers – Cranston Williams Jr, 1952
Memoirs of the Abbots of Old Bellevue – James P.C. Southall, 1955
Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg – Margaret Cabell
The Kin Patch: A Path to the Past – Page Laubach Warden, 1997

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
CRANSTON WILLIAMS, JR., 1926Cranston Williams, Jr., son of Cranston Gullatt Williams and Caroline Elizabeth Hutter,
was born 12 August 1926 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Navy as a seaman
during World War II (1944-1946) and was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1950.
He received a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1952. He married 1 October 1960 Marilyn Virginia Johnson in Vinton,
Virginia.
Mr. Williams was the business manager and treasurer of the Times-World Corporation in
Roanoke, Virginia, publisher of the Roanoke Times. An avid amateur genealogist, he was a
member of numerous hereditary societies, including First Families of Virginia, the Jamestowne
Society, the Virginia Huguenot Society and Sons of the American Revolution.
[Cranston Williams, Jr., Genealogical Collection, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA – MS1376]

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