Manuscript finding aid to the Sale Family Papers
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
SALE FAMILY PAPERS
The collection includes genealogical notes and charts by Meriwether Anderson
Sale, Sr., on the Sale, Anderson, and allied families; miscellaneous correspondence
(1923-1930), a cartes de visite album, and miscellaneous family photographs.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection.]
MS1040
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
SALE FAMILY PAPERS
The collection includes genealogical notes and charts by Meriwether Anderson
Sale, Sr., on the Sale, Anderson, and allied families; miscellaneous correspondence
(1923-1930), a cartes de visite album, and miscellaneous family photographs.
BOX 1
1-1
1-14
Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1805-1862) and Lucy Sydnor
Harper (1811-1885)
Charles Harper Anderson (1845-1920) and Sarah Travers Lewis
Scott (1847-1926)
Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1872-1936) and Ann Tatum
(1874-1903)
Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1872-1936) Wallet and Contents
Stories and letters written by Ann M. Anderson
Estate of Ann A. Sale
Edward and Jane O’Neal Sale Family Bible – 1766
Andrew Jefferson Sale (1846-1900) and Elizabeth Goodridge
Wilson (1846-1918)
“George Mason: Conscientious Revolutionist” – Paper read to
Anvil Club, Charleston, W.Va., W. Goodridge Sale, 1955
William Goodridge Sale (1874-1943) and Annie Belle Sackett
(1877- )
William Goodridge Sale, Jr. (1903-1957) and Ann Meriwether
Anderson (1905-1985)
Memorial and Resolution: William Goodridge Sale, Jr. (19031957)
Ann Meriwether Anderson Sale – Chronicle of her life, List of
Family heirlooms
Meriwether Anderson Sale (1942- )
2-1
2-2
2-3
2-4
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8
Sale family history and genealogy (including 3 CD-ROMs)
“Our Mother and Father” – Alice Winston Sackett
Sale and Sackett families and their connections
Tatum coat of arms
Letters of William Henry Tatum (1861-1865)
Laser photocopies of Tatum, Pearman, Anderson
Tatum letters and general information
Diary of W. H. Tatum (1861)
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-9
1-10
1-11
1-12
1-13
BOX 2
(Continued)
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SALE FAMILY PAPERS, Cont’d.
3-4
3-5
3-6
3-7
3-8
3-9
3-10
3-11
3-12
3-14
“Little Rosebud” – Nancy King Peck
The Woodson rifle
“Sarah Harper and her Descendants” – Micajah Boland (1958)
with notes
Fontaine/Maury genealogy
Fouke/Thorowgood genealogy
Charts: Stubbs/Strachey
Scott family (before the Civil War) – Ambrotype
Scott/McClure genealogy
Scott brothers Civil War memoirs and records
Scott and Tatum – Memoirs, letters, war records
Wilson family, wills and information
Letters to Kanawha Co. Wilsons (1843-1848)
Wilson Bible record
BOX 4
4-1
4-2
4-3
4-4
4-5
4-6
4-7
4-8
4-9
4-10
Lewis & Clark – Grace Wilson
Bel Aire : Home of Zachary Lewis
Lewis genealogy information
Jane Lewis
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks – Neighbors in Albemarle Co., Va.
Exhumation of Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether/Lewis genealogy
Meriwether Lewis bust in Virginia Capitol
Locust Hill graveyard
Meriwether Lewis materials
BOX 5
Correspondence
5-1
Miscellaneous letters
5-2
Transcription of letters (1923-1930)
5-3
June-December 1923
5-4
January-August 1924
5-5
September-December 1924
5-6
January-August 1925
5-7
September-December 1925
BOX 6
Correspondence
6-1
January-June 1926
6-2
June-August 1926
6-3
September-December 1926
6-4
January-June 1927
6-5
Summer 1927
6-6
September-December 1927
BOX 3
3-1
3-2
3-3
(Continued)
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SALE FAMILY PAPERS, Cont’d.
BOX 7
Correspondence
7-1
January-April 1928
7-2
September-December 1928
7-3
March-December 1928 – many undated but with 1928 letters
7-4
1928 - I
BOX 8
Correspondence
8-1
1928 - II
8-2
1928 – III
8-3
1928 – IV
8-4
1928 – V
8-5
1928 – VI
BOX 9
Correspondence
9-1
January-April 1928
9-2
May-June 1928
9-3
July-August 1928
9-4
September 1928
BOX 10
Correspondence
10-1 October 1928 – Undated 1928
10-2 Undated 1928
10-3 1929
10-4 1930
BOX 11
Album of cartes de visite; Miscellaneous family photographs; genealogical
chart for the Sale Family Reunion (undated), “Our Mother and Father”
BOX 12
12-1
BOX 13
12-2
12-3
12-4
12-5
12-6
12-7
12-8
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1927-1928 + CD
of correspondence 1920-1956
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1930-1939
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1940-1949
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1950-1956
John Marshall High School
Suzanne Rochet – Article by W. Twyman Williams
Unknown Photo + Peabody award for Annie Tatum
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College – Miscellaneous photos
13-1
13-2
13-3
13-4
Miscellaneous notes & photographs
“Back to the Future of Lynchburg Streets” – article by Andy Sale
Bel Air (Lynchburg, Va.)
Lewis – Anderson Family
(Continued)
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SALE FAMILY PAPERS, Cont’d.
BOX 13
13-5
13-6
13-7
13-8
13-9
13-10
13-11
13-12
13-13
13-14
Descendants of Charles Harper Anderson and his wife, Sarah
Travers Lewis Scott
Meriwether – Lewis Notes
Update on Lewises, Meriwethers and their Kin
Ann Anderson Sale – poetry
Ann Anderson Sale – Memorial service
Letters about Mother
Grace Wilson Sale – Pedigree chart
Sale – Sackett & Allied Families (with photo) by “J. M.”
Tatum Family genealogy
Welch (McDowell County, WV)
BOX 14
14-1
14-2
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1948-1949
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1949-1950
BOX 15
15-1
15-2
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1948-1951
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1953-1955
[BOX 16]
Scrapbook DC 1964-1965 [Launch of Lewis & Clark Submarine]
BOX 17
17-1
17-2
17-3
Ann Sale Correspondence 1951 + undated, report cards, and
miscellaneous items
Ann Sale Miscellaneous photos & memorabilia
Meeting V, Flash Drive (Remembrances) 2020
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
MERIWETHER ANDERSON SALE, SR. (1942- )
Meriwether Anderson (Andy) Sale, the son of William Goodridge Sale and Ann
Meriwether Anderson, was born 3 August 1942 in Charleston, West Virginia. A graduate
of Davidson College in North Carolina and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond,
Virginia. He married Frances Ferguson Wood of Johnson City, Tennessee, in June 1965.
He served in pastorates in Kentucky (1969-1972), Virginia (1972-1983) and Missouri
(1983-1996). He served as General Presbyter for the 141 congregations in the Presbytery
of the Peaks with offices in Lynchburg, Virginia (1996-2004). He retired as interim
pastor for Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, Va., in September 2006.
With his wife, he moved to Sunnyside Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
[Handbook of Reports for the 166th Stated Meeting of the Shenandoah Presbytery, 12 May 2015, Hinton,
Va. – p. 18 (shenpres.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/May2015Summary.pdf)]
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2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
SALE FAMILY PAPERS
The collection includes genealogical notes and charts by Meriwether Anderson
Sale, Sr., on the Sale, Anderson, and allied families; miscellaneous correspondence
(1923-1930), a cartes de visite album, and miscellaneous family photographs.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection.]
MS1040
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
SALE FAMILY PAPERS
The collection includes genealogical notes and charts by Meriwether Anderson
Sale, Sr., on the Sale, Anderson, and allied families; miscellaneous correspondence
(1923-1930), a cartes de visite album, and miscellaneous family photographs.
BOX 1
1-1
1-14
Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1805-1862) and Lucy Sydnor
Harper (1811-1885)
Charles Harper Anderson (1845-1920) and Sarah Travers Lewis
Scott (1847-1926)
Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1872-1936) and Ann Tatum
(1874-1903)
Meriwether Lewis Anderson (1872-1936) Wallet and Contents
Stories and letters written by Ann M. Anderson
Estate of Ann A. Sale
Edward and Jane O’Neal Sale Family Bible – 1766
Andrew Jefferson Sale (1846-1900) and Elizabeth Goodridge
Wilson (1846-1918)
“George Mason: Conscientious Revolutionist” – Paper read to
Anvil Club, Charleston, W.Va., W. Goodridge Sale, 1955
William Goodridge Sale (1874-1943) and Annie Belle Sackett
(1877- )
William Goodridge Sale, Jr. (1903-1957) and Ann Meriwether
Anderson (1905-1985)
Memorial and Resolution: William Goodridge Sale, Jr. (19031957)
Ann Meriwether Anderson Sale – Chronicle of her life, List of
Family heirlooms
Meriwether Anderson Sale (1942- )
2-1
2-2
2-3
2-4
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8
Sale family history and genealogy (including 3 CD-ROMs)
“Our Mother and Father” – Alice Winston Sackett
Sale and Sackett families and their connections
Tatum coat of arms
Letters of William Henry Tatum (1861-1865)
Laser photocopies of Tatum, Pearman, Anderson
Tatum letters and general information
Diary of W. H. Tatum (1861)
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-9
1-10
1-11
1-12
1-13
BOX 2
(Continued)
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SALE FAMILY PAPERS, Cont’d.
3-4
3-5
3-6
3-7
3-8
3-9
3-10
3-11
3-12
3-14
“Little Rosebud” – Nancy King Peck
The Woodson rifle
“Sarah Harper and her Descendants” – Micajah Boland (1958)
with notes
Fontaine/Maury genealogy
Fouke/Thorowgood genealogy
Charts: Stubbs/Strachey
Scott family (before the Civil War) – Ambrotype
Scott/McClure genealogy
Scott brothers Civil War memoirs and records
Scott and Tatum – Memoirs, letters, war records
Wilson family, wills and information
Letters to Kanawha Co. Wilsons (1843-1848)
Wilson Bible record
BOX 4
4-1
4-2
4-3
4-4
4-5
4-6
4-7
4-8
4-9
4-10
Lewis & Clark – Grace Wilson
Bel Aire : Home of Zachary Lewis
Lewis genealogy information
Jane Lewis
Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks – Neighbors in Albemarle Co., Va.
Exhumation of Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether/Lewis genealogy
Meriwether Lewis bust in Virginia Capitol
Locust Hill graveyard
Meriwether Lewis materials
BOX 5
Correspondence
5-1
Miscellaneous letters
5-2
Transcription of letters (1923-1930)
5-3
June-December 1923
5-4
January-August 1924
5-5
September-December 1924
5-6
January-August 1925
5-7
September-December 1925
BOX 6
Correspondence
6-1
January-June 1926
6-2
June-August 1926
6-3
September-December 1926
6-4
January-June 1927
6-5
Summer 1927
6-6
September-December 1927
BOX 3
3-1
3-2
3-3
(Continued)
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SALE FAMILY PAPERS, Cont’d.
BOX 7
Correspondence
7-1
January-April 1928
7-2
September-December 1928
7-3
March-December 1928 – many undated but with 1928 letters
7-4
1928 - I
BOX 8
Correspondence
8-1
1928 - II
8-2
1928 – III
8-3
1928 – IV
8-4
1928 – V
8-5
1928 – VI
BOX 9
Correspondence
9-1
January-April 1928
9-2
May-June 1928
9-3
July-August 1928
9-4
September 1928
BOX 10
Correspondence
10-1 October 1928 – Undated 1928
10-2 Undated 1928
10-3 1929
10-4 1930
BOX 11
Album of cartes de visite; Miscellaneous family photographs; genealogical
chart for the Sale Family Reunion (undated), “Our Mother and Father”
BOX 12
12-1
BOX 13
12-2
12-3
12-4
12-5
12-6
12-7
12-8
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1927-1928 + CD
of correspondence 1920-1956
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1930-1939
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1940-1949
Correspondence – W. Goodridge Sale, Jr. – 1950-1956
John Marshall High School
Suzanne Rochet – Article by W. Twyman Williams
Unknown Photo + Peabody award for Annie Tatum
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College – Miscellaneous photos
13-1
13-2
13-3
13-4
Miscellaneous notes & photographs
“Back to the Future of Lynchburg Streets” – article by Andy Sale
Bel Air (Lynchburg, Va.)
Lewis – Anderson Family
(Continued)
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SALE FAMILY PAPERS, Cont’d.
BOX 13
13-5
13-6
13-7
13-8
13-9
13-10
13-11
13-12
13-13
13-14
Descendants of Charles Harper Anderson and his wife, Sarah
Travers Lewis Scott
Meriwether – Lewis Notes
Update on Lewises, Meriwethers and their Kin
Ann Anderson Sale – poetry
Ann Anderson Sale – Memorial service
Letters about Mother
Grace Wilson Sale – Pedigree chart
Sale – Sackett & Allied Families (with photo) by “J. M.”
Tatum Family genealogy
Welch (McDowell County, WV)
BOX 14
14-1
14-2
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1948-1949
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1949-1950
BOX 15
15-1
15-2
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1948-1951
Scrapbook (Ann Sale) 1953-1955
[BOX 16]
Scrapbook DC 1964-1965 [Launch of Lewis & Clark Submarine]
BOX 17
17-1
17-2
17-3
Ann Sale Correspondence 1951 + undated, report cards, and
miscellaneous items
Ann Sale Miscellaneous photos & memorabilia
Meeting V, Flash Drive (Remembrances) 2020
MS1040
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
MERIWETHER ANDERSON SALE, SR. (1942- )
Meriwether Anderson (Andy) Sale, the son of William Goodridge Sale and Ann
Meriwether Anderson, was born 3 August 1942 in Charleston, West Virginia. A graduate
of Davidson College in North Carolina and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond,
Virginia. He married Frances Ferguson Wood of Johnson City, Tennessee, in June 1965.
He served in pastorates in Kentucky (1969-1972), Virginia (1972-1983) and Missouri
(1983-1996). He served as General Presbyter for the 141 congregations in the Presbytery
of the Peaks with offices in Lynchburg, Virginia (1996-2004). He retired as interim
pastor for Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, Va., in September 2006.
With his wife, he moved to Sunnyside Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
[Handbook of Reports for the 166th Stated Meeting of the Shenandoah Presbytery, 12 May 2015, Hinton,
Va. – p. 18 (shenpres.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/May2015Summary.pdf)]
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Title
Manuscript finding aid to the Sale Family Papers
Subject
Manuscript finding aid
Sale, Meriwether Anderson
Description
Manuscript finding aid to the Sale Family Papers held at Jones Memorial Library
Creator
George M. Jones Memorial Library
Publisher
George M. Jones Memorial Library
Date
2023
Rights
George M. Jones Memorial Library
Format
Adobe portable document file (pdf)
Language
English
Identifier
MS1040FA
Collection
Citation
George M. Jones Memorial Library, “Manuscript finding aid to the Sale Family Papers,” Digital Collections, accessed April 24, 2024, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/53.