Finding Aid to the Julia Iantha Asher Genealogical Papers

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THE JULIA IANTHA ASHER (1901-1988) GENEALOGICAL PAPERS
BOX 1

1-1 ADAMS Family
1-2 ANDERSON Family
1-3 ARMISTEAD Family
1-4 ASHER Family
1-5 BAILEY Family
1-6 BAKER Family
1-7 CALDWELL Family
1-8 CALLAWAY Family
1-9 CLARK Family (I)
1-10 CLARK Family (II)
1-11 COBBS Family
1-12 CORBIN Family
1-13 CROWDER Family
1-14 DAVIDSON Family
1-15 DRINKARD Family
1-16 EDDS Family
1-17 ELDER Family
1-18 ELLIOTT Family

1-19 EVANS Family
1-20 FARIS Family
1-21 FAWCETT Family
1-22 FLESHMAN Family
1-23 FONTAINE Family
1-24 FOSTER Family
1-25 FUQUA Family
1-26 GILLIAM Family
1-27 GLASS Family
1-28 HALL Family
1-29 HAMLETT Family
1-30 HAMMERSLEY Family
1-31 HANKS Family
1-32 HELM Family
1-33 HENDRICK Family
1-34 HOLT Family
1-35 HUNTER Family
1-36 HURT Family

BOX 2

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

IRVIN Family (I)
IRVIN Family (II)
IRVIN Family (III)
IRVINs of Hat Creek (I)
IRVINs of Hat Creek (II) (Draft)
IRVINs of Hat Creek (Miscellaneous)
IRVINs of Hat Creek (Draft I)
IRVINs of Hat Creek (Draft II)
IRVINES OF SOUTH CAROLINA (William Harris
IRVINE, 1961)

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3–1
3–2
3–3
3–4
3–5
3–6
3–7

JOHNSON Family
JOY Family
LAWSON Family
LEE Family
LeGRAND Family
MARSHALL Family
MARTIN Family

3–8 MASON Family
3–9 MAYS Family
3–10 McCONVILLE Family
3–11 McDAVID Family
3–12 McELROY Family
3–13 McREYNOLDS Family
3–14 MOORE Family
(Continued)
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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THE JULIA IANTHA ASHER (1901-1988) GENEALOGICAL PAPERS, Contd.
BOX 3 3–15
3–16
3–17
3–18
3–19
3–20
3–21
3–22
3–23
3–24
3–25
3–26
3–27
3–28
BOX 4

MOORMAN Family
MORGAN Family
MORRIS Family
NEAL Family
NOWLIN Family
PANNILL Family
PAULETT Family
PAYNE Family
POINDEXTER Family
PRICE Family
PRUITT Family
PUGH Family
RAMSEY Family
READ Family

3–29 ROGERS Family
3–30 ROSSER Family
3–31 SEYMOUR Family
3–32 SMITH Family
3–33 STITH Family
3–34 St.JOHN Family
3–35 TERRY Family
3–36 THOMPSON Family
3–37 TUCKER Family
3–38 WARD Family
3–39 WEST Family
3–40 WILLIAMS Family
3–41 WOOD Family

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

Appomattox County Educational System (Julia I. Asher)
"Ask Mrs. Grundy" (Marian A. Fawcett)
Julia Iantha ASHER (Includes photos)
Marian Cecil ASHER
Alexander AUSTIN
Bedford County (VA) Ministers (1754-1829)
Campbell County (VA) Courthouse (Marian A.
Fawcett)
4-8 Campbell County (VA) Births and Deaths 1853-1862)
4-9 Campbell County (VA) Ministers 1782-1872
4-10 Campbell County (VA) Servicemen who lost their lives in World War II
4-11 Campbell County (VA) Revolutionary Soldiers
4-12 Jacob CARWILE
4-13 Charlotte County (VA) Births, Deaths, Marriages, Militia
4-14 Charles CLINTON
4-15 Cub Creek Church (Charlotte County, Va.)
4-16 Established Church 1750-1786 (Julia I. Asher)
4-17 R. A. HAMLET
4-18 Hat Creek Presbyterian Church (Correspondence)
4-19 "History of Hat Creek Church" (William Irvin 1854)
4-20 Hat Creek Presbyterian Church - Miscellaneous Notes, Photos, Programs
(Continued)

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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THE JULIA IANTHA ASHER (1901-1988) GENEALOGICAL PAPERS
BOX 4 4-21 Hat Creek Presbyterian Church - Sunday School Minutes, Memorial
Pews, Women's Auxiliary Minutes
4-22 Photo (Hat Creek?)
4-23 The High Road of the Frontier (Marian A. Fawcett)
4-24 History of Campbell County (Va.)
4-25 History of Public Schools of Appomattox County (J. B. Bristow)
4-26 Volney E. HOWARD
4-27 IRVIN House (Hat Creek)
4-28 Leesville (Va.) (Mrs. Updike)
4-29 John McLEAN
4-30 Miscellaneous Accounts
4-31 New Lights In Campbell County 1786-1850 (Baptists) (Julia I. Asher)
4-32 Old Concord Church
4-33 Presbyterians in Virginia (Julia I. Asher) (Thesis?)
4-34 Register, Old Concord Presbyterian Church; History, Brookneal Baptist
Church (Notes added by Julia I. Asher)
4-35 Roster: Alexander AUSTIN's Company 53d Regiment Virginia Militia
4-36 Rustburg (Va.)
4-37 "To the Gallant Survivors..." (Morris Artillery)
4-38 Ward's Road (Julia I. Asher)
[BOX] 5

Plaque honoring Julia I. Asher and Marian A. Fawcett for their
contributions to the history of the area; presented by Red Hill Chapter,
DAR, 14 September 1980

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JULIA IANTHA ASHER 1901-1988
Julia Iantha ASHER, daughter of Louis Clark ASHER and Alberta ELDER, was born 2
January 1901 in Campbell County, Virginia. [Obituary, Lynchburg News & Daily Advance, 6 June

1988, Sect. B, p. 2 col. 1.]

Educated in Campbell County, she was also a graduate of the State Normal School for
Women (later Longwood College), in Farmville, Virginia, in 1922. She taught in the
public schools of Campbell County for a number of years. In 1964, she was awarded life
membership in the Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers "in recognition of
noteworthy loyalty and high achievement in promoting the welfare of children and
youth." Miss ASHER also served on the Campbell County Library Board of Trustees for
a number of years. A noted genealogist and historian, Julia I. ASHER, along with her
sister, Marian A. FAWCETT, was presented a plaque on 14 September 1980, by Red Hill
Chapter, DAR, for contributions to the history of the area. [Julia I. Asher (1901-1988)
Genealogical Papers, MS1400, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

A member of Hat Creek Presbyterian Church, Julia I. ASHER died 5 June 1988 and was
buried in the family cemetery on Locust Plain Farm, her home in Campbell County.
[Obituary, loc.cit.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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JULIA IANTHA ASHER (1901-1988) GENEALOGICAL PAPERS
BOX 1

Genealogical Notes: Families A-H

BOX 2

Genealogical Notes: IRVIN Family

BOX 3

Genealogical Notes: Families J-Z

BOX 4

Miscellaneous Notes/Writings

[BOX] 5

Plaque honoring Julia I. ASHER and Marian A. FAWCETT for contribution
to history of area - Red Hill Chapter DAR, 14 September 1980
[Detailed finding guide available with collection]

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MS1400 -- "The Julia I. Asher Genealogical Papers" [Box 1, Folder 1, genealogical chart
of IRVIN/TUCKER/CLARK]
JOHN & MARY BOYD IRVIN [John c.1700-1788]
children: ABRAHAM (1729-1777), ELIZABETH (c.1730-1814), NANCY E.,
ROBERT (1733-1799), WM., JOHN (Maj., c.1735-1814), & MARGARET
[The chart continues with family of Maj. JOHN IRVIN & MARY ANN TUCKER of
AMHERST CO., VA]

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MS1400 -- [Box 1, Folder 2] (Transcribed as found)
"MEMOIRS" - Wm. Irvin (grandson of founder)
Once there lived on earth my grandparents; in other words, my father's father &
Mother and my Mother's father and Mother; And for the sake of those of their decendents
who may now or here-after desire to know something concerning them, I do now
undertake to record what I myself do know. And it is chiefly to my father and mother and
their lifetime, that I am endebted for what information I can impart, (And here I will
let the names of my Mother's father and Mother lie still until I am done speaking of my
father's father & Mother.)
The name of my father's father was John Irvin (*1), being a decendent of the same
name as my father himself. The name of my father's Mother was Molly (Mary) Irvin
upon being married; but I do not know what it was previous to marriage. They were both
born, raised & married in Ireland (*2), yet I am Ignorant of the day and year of their birth
and marriage.
After being married they found themselves in the midste of times hard and difficult in
Ireland. Meanwhile news after news reached their ears of how easy it was to live in
America: which it induced them both to be bound for the happy land. At length they took
shipping and set sail for America with the view of making out better to live, and to
maintain their religious principles without any molestations on account of them, both
being real and steadfast Presbyterians. And while on board a-ship and nearly about the
middle Atlantic, their first child was born. The same they named Abraham. Their voyage
was without storm & tempest to endanger them; but a whale or two in room of storm &
tempest, undertook to turn over the ship to eat up grandfather & grandmother &
sometimes it seemed that the ship would be turned over in fact. But presently Columbia's
blue clifts arose to view, and soon they landed on the American shores, and settled
themselves in Pennsylvania. And in Penyslvania they lived 'til their last child was born;
the full number of their children being eight; namely Abraham, who was born on
board a-ship as afore mentioned, William, Robin, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, &
Margaret.
About this time it was daily talked of in Penyslvania, that in Virginia there was much
uninhabited & unoccupied land, it occurred to his mind that it would be to his profit
and advantage, to turn this land whereon he lived in-to money, and go to Va. where he
could get land for nothing and soon was confirmed in this determination to do so; yet not
to remove his family thither until he first visited Va. in order to make preparations for
himself & them. Acordingly he set out for Va. and came to the place whereon O.C. Clark
now lives, and is the owner of, and selected it as a place of residence for himself &
family; and did also take up all the land within 4 or 5 miles around the same. And let me
observe that grandfather found here at the same time an individual old while man only,
and he just ready to die; with no one living in many miles of place. The old man was glad

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for grandfather to take possession here on promise of grandfather that he was to remain
here what little time he has to live & be attended to.
After grandfather had made such preparations and arraignments as seemed necessary
for him for removal, he returned to Penyslvania for his family. Now Jacob went down
into Egypt, with three score and ten souls; but grandfather came to this palce with 10
white souls, 2 negro souls, who went by the name of Sam & Mollie. On reaching here,
afterward old H.C. in 17?6 he found the old white man as before alluded to still alive, but
soon died, and lies by the side of large rock at this upper end of a field next to Little
Falling river.
And now it was that grandfather and his force set themselves to till the ground & lay
up for this new plantation. And it is certainly a fact that, though it may strike the ears of
some with incredulety, this place whereon O.C.Clark now lives, is the first plantation that
was ever settled & cultivated within 35 or 40 miles of the same.
Grandfather had not been settled here long till the new settlers began to pour in upon
him, who bought land of him which he had taken up, at a low price; so that he had
neighbors enough and while he was engaged in secular affairs, he did not forget religion,
and that there was no meeting-house nor preacher to be found within a long way of him:
so he was rresolved upon having a meeting house and someone to preach in it; and got
some men to join him, who were professors of religion, and had a large log meeting
house built and for grandfather's part of payment for this building of the same, he gave a
tract of land just over Hat Creek fronting this meeting house. This house was completed
about 2 years from the time he came here. And his coming here is as before said 17?6.
Now before he left Pennsylvania, one Mr. Tennant, a young preacher told him that
when on reaching the place he intended to settle, if he found himself scarce of preachers,
he would come to Va. board at his house and preach a year on his letting him know and
as soon as Hat Creek was built he wrote to Mr. Tennant that he might come on.
Accordinly Mr. Tennant in aggreeable to his word, and boarded at his house one year,
and preached at Hat Creek once a month through-out the year, besides preaching about
and about else-where.
*1.In Ireland called Irwin *2.Know nothing of their ancestors
NOTE BY COPYIST: The date given in the original M.S. seems to be 1776, but since it
is an established fact that the church was organied much earlier, this could not have been
the year the settlers arrived at H.C. This may have been 1736, though this date seems a
little earlier than was probable.
[at this point the writer continues with information regarding his own daughters, Sarah &
Nancy; he also mentions a daughter, Catherine, only by name.]

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