Finding Aid to the Lucy Harrison Miller Baber Papers
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996) PAPERS
The collection includes research notes for the book, Behind the Old Brick Wall,
compiled by Lucy Harrison Miller BABER, about the Lynchburg, Virginia, City
Cemetery ("Old Methodist Cemetery"). The cemetery notes contain field notes from
copying tombstone inscriptions, usually more detailed than the published inscriptions.
Along with the cemetery records are notes and plates for publication of the book,
Campbell County Marriages 1782-1810, also compiled by BABER. Genealogical notes
on BABER and related families, notes on Samuel Jordan HARRISON (1771-1846),
miscellaneous Bible records, and information collected on the Firemen's Memorial
Fountain, are also included.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996) PAPERS
The collection includes research notes for the book, Behind the Old Brick Wall,
compiled by Lucy Harrison Miller BABER, about the Lynchburg, Virginia, City
Cemetery ("Old Methodist Cemetery"). The cemetery notes contain field notes from
copying tombstone inscriptions, usually more detailed than the published inscriptions.
Along with the cemetery records are notes and plates for publication of the book,
Campbell County Marriages 1782-1810, also compiled by BABER. Genealogical notes
on BABER and related families, notes on Samuel Jordan HARRISON (1771-1846),
miscellaneous Bible records, and information collected on the Firemen's Memorial
Fountain, are also included.
BOX 1 Behind the Old Brick Wall (I)
1-1 Roster of Burials - Main Sector (1806-1913)
1-2 Roster of Burials - Confederate Section
1-3 Union Soldiers Interred
1-4 File Made from Ledger in City Files (1914- ) (Copy 1)
1-5 File Made from Ledger in City Files (1914- ) (Copy 2)
1-6 Record of Burials ( -1965)
BOX 2 Behind the Old Brick Wall (II)
2-1 Record of Burials (Surveys 1929, 1965)
2-2 Reports of City Council
2-3 City Files
2-4 Confederate Markers
2-5 Deeds
2-6 DIUGUID Funeral Home Records
2-7 Newspaper Articles
2-8 Maps
2-9 St. Paul's Parish Register (Communicants Buried in City Cemetery)
2-10 W.P.A. Project (1937)
2-11 Correspondence
2-12 Survey Records (1926-1929)
2-13 Miscellaneous Notes
2-14 Index (Partial)
2-15 Book Reviews
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BOX 3
3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-5
Behind the Old Brick Wall (III)
ADAMS, Parham ( -1821)
CHILDS, Rev. John W.
DONIPHAN, Rev. Alexander (1820- )
DUFFEL Family
ESSEX, Benjamin and Mrs. Ann,
THURMAN, John (1773-1855)
3-6 GARLAND, Samuel (House)
3-7 GRAY, Francis (1759-1827)
3-8 HARRIS, Phillip Andrew Jackson (1838-1888)
3-9 HENING Family
3-10 HOLBROOK, Josiah (1788-1854)
3-11 HOLMES, Joshua
3-12 HOYLE, Charles/HORSLY, John D./HARPER, Fred (203 Federal Street)
3-13 JEFFERSON, Emmett (ca.1878-1911)
3-14 MORGAN, Anthony
3-15 NORVELL, William Wiatt (1795-1871)
3-16 PRIDE, Claiborne
3-17 RANDOLPH, Virginia Cabell
3-18 SMITHSON Family
3-19 TALBOT, William A.
3-20 TILDEN, John Bell, Jr. (1801-1876)
3-21 TUCKER, Maria Ball Carter
3-22 VAWTER, Bransford
3-23 VICTOR, Mary J.
3-24 WORD, Col. William E. M.
3-25 Reminiscences (1896)
3-26 Western Cemetery (Louisville, KY) (TALBOT/PATTEN)
BOX 4 Behind the Old Brick Wall (IV)
Card File - Burials in Main Sector (1806-1913)
A - Mc
BOX 5 Behind the Old Brick Wall (V)
Card File - Burials in Main Sector (1806-1913)
M-Z
BOX 6 Behind the Old Brick Wall (VI)
Card File - Burials in Confederate Section
A-L
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BOX 7 Behind the Old Brick Wall (VII)
Card File - Burials in Confederate Section M - Z
Card File - Union Soldiers Buried, Later Removed to Federal Cemetery
A-Z
BOX 8
BOX 9
8-1
8-2
8-3
8-4
8-5
8-6
8-7
8-8
8-9
BABER Family
HARRISON Family
NORVELL Family
OGLESBY Family
PANNILL Family
Miscellaneous Bible Records
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Firemen's Memorial Fountain (Fire Dept. History)
Tombstone Inscriptions (St.Stephen's Church, Forest, Va.)
Card File, BABER Family
BOX 10 Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1810
10-1 Copyright
10-2 Map
10-3 Miscellaneous Notes and Bonds
10-4 Publication Notes
10-5 Typescript
10-6 Typescript (Final Masters and Prints)
[Negatives stored at Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
[BOX 11] Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1810
Printer's Plates
BOX 12 William Norvell of Hanover County, Virginia (I)
12-1 NORVELL (I)
12-2 NORVELL (II)
12-3 NORVELL (III)
12-4 NORVELL (IV)
12-5 NORVELL (V)
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BOX 13 William Norvell of Hanover County, Virginia (II)
13-1 NORVELL (VI)
13-2 NORVELL (VII)
13-3 NORVELL (VIII)
13-4 NORVELL (IX)
13-5 NORVELL (X)
13-6 WARWICK, Susannah Caroline (WARWICK) - Diary
BOX 14 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (I)
14-1 Family Group Sheets/Charts
14-2 Maps
14-3 Miscellaneous Notes/Photos
14-4 ANDERSON
14-8 CUNNINGHAM
14-5 ARGYLE
14-9 FITZPATRICK
14-6 BALL
14-10 GRAY/POWELL
14-7 BURTON
14-11 HARRIS
BOX 15 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (II)
15-1 HARRISON (I)
15-7 LUCKE/SAUNDERS (I)
15-2 HARRISON (II)
15-8 LUCKE/SAUNDERS (II)
15-3 HARRISON (III)
15-9 MACON
15-4 HUDSON
15-10 McGRUDER
15-5 JONES
15-11 MILLER
15-6 KING
15-12 MOTHERSHEAD
BOX 16 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (III)
16-1 NEWTON
16-7 TREVILIAN (I)
16-2 OVERTON
16-8 TREVILIAN (II)
16-3 PANNILL
16-9 TREVILIAN (III)
16-4 SCOTT
16-10 WILLIAMSON
16-5 STARKE
16-11 WINSTON
16-6 TAYLOR
16-12 WOOLFOLK
BOX 17 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (IV)
17-1 CALLAWAY
17-2 CLEMENTS
17-3 COLLIER
17-4 DANDRIDGE (Bible record)
17-5 DILLS
17-6 GILLESPIE
17-7 MACON
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BOX 17
17-8 McKENZIE
17-9 MATHEWS
17-10 TWYMAN
17-11 OTEY, Lucy Mina - Commission
17-12 "Wenzel's Pedigree Chart"
17-13 Fork Union Presbyterian Church History
BOX 18
18-1
18-2
18-3
18-4
18-5
18-6
18-7
BABER, Charles G.
BABER, Lucy Harrison (MILLER)
BABER (Mabel TALLEY Correspondence) (I)
BABER (Mabel TALLEY Correspondence) (II)
BABER (Chart)
BABER (Freemond W. BABER)
BABER (Miscellaneous Notes) (I)
BOX 19
19-1
19-2
19-3
19-4
19-5
19-6
19-7
BABER (Miscellaneous Notes) (II)
BABER (Miscellaneous Notes) (III)
BABER (Group Sheets) (I)
BABER (Group Sheets) (II)
BABER (Group Sheets) (III)
BABER (Group Sheets) (IV)
BABER (Group Sheets) (V)
BOX 20
20-1 BABER (Correspondence) (I)
20-2 BABER (Correspondence) (II)
20-3 BABER (Correspondence) (III)
20-4 BABER (Correspondence) (IV)
20-5 BABER (Correspondence) (V)
20-6 BABER (Correspondence) (VI)
20-7 BABER (Correspondence) (VII)
BOX 21
21-1
21-2
21-3
21-4
21-5
21-6
BABER (Correspondence) (VIII)
BABER (Correspondence) (IX)
BABER (Correspondence) (X)
"BABERs Since the Civil War"
BABER (England) (I)
BABER (England) (II)
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BOX 22
22-1 NORVELL (Book Draft)
22-2 NORVELL (Book Draft)
22-3 "History of the NORVELL and Related Families" (SCHMITT &
NORVELL)
22-4 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (I)
22-5 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (II)
22-6 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (III)
22-7 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (IV)
22-8 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (V)
BOX 23
23-1
23-2
23-3
23-4
23-5
23-6
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (VI)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (VII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (VIII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (IX)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (X)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XI)
BOX 24
24-1
24-2
24-3
24-4
24-5
24-6
24-7
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XIII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XIV)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XV)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XVI)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XVII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XVIII)
BOX 25
25-1 BABER Charts (JACKSON) (I)
25-2 BABER Charts (JACKSON) (II)
25-3 "The NORVELL Family in Virginia" (BABER, 1965) (I)
25-4 "The NORVELL Family in Virginia" (BABER, 1965) (II)
25-5 "History of the NORVELL and Related Families" (John E.
NORVELL)
25-6 NORVELLs and Paper Money (WILLIAMSON)
25-7 Notes (B. C. MILLER)
BOX 26 Note Cards - NORVELL
BOX 27 Keep Lynchburg Beautiful Commission
27-1 Minutes/Membership
27-5 Aviary
27-2 Committee Reports
27-6 Newspaper Clippings
27-3 Correspondence
27-7 Miscellaneous
27-4 Projects Winton Cemetery (APVA)
27-8 Miscellaneous Notes
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BOX 28 Child Welfare (I)
28-1 Advisory Committee – Youth Services, Juvenile and Domestic Relations
28-2 Advisory Legislative Council - Juvenile Court Laws
28-3 Child Care Center
28-4 Children's Home Society of Virginia
28-5 Foster Homes
28-6 Junior League Legislative Committee
28-7 Juvenile Court System – Notes
28-8 Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court - Code of Virginia
28-9 Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court - Miscellaneous
28-10 Legislative Committees-Correspondence
28-11 Youth Board News
28-12 Youth Service News
BOX 29 Child Welfare (II)
29-1 "Children in Jail"
29-2 Class Notes - Psychiatry
29-3 Correspondence (I)
29-4 Correspondence (II)
29-5 Drug Addiction
29-6 Miscellaneous
29-7 Newspaper Clippings
29-8 Pamphlets - Miscellaneous
29-9 Welfare Department - Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs
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LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996)
Lucy Harrison MILLER, daughter of Edgar Patton MILLER and Eleanor Selden
LUCKE, was born 17 March 1908 in Lynchburg, Virginia. She graduated as class
valedictorian from Lynchburg High School in 1926. She attended Chatham Hall and was
graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1932.
Lucy Harrison MILLER married 6 October 1934 Charles George BABER, son of
John Lafayette BABER and Alverta Lee DILLS, of Lynchburg.
A founding member of the Hillside Garden Club and of the Spinsters German in
Lynchburg, Lucy H. M. BABER was active in a number of organizations, including the
Lynchburg Junior League and the Lynchburg Historical Foundation. She served as State
Trustee for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA). She
was also member of a number of hereditary organizations including the Jamestowne
Society, the Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1623/24, the Lynchburg Committee
of the National Society of Colonial Dames in Virginia, the Blue Ridge Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Kirkwood Otey Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Long active in local and state affairs, in 1943, Mrs. BABER established the Child
Care Center in Lynchburg, which continued in operation for more than fifty years.
Before this time, no day care facilities existed. Declining Federal funding, Mrs. BABER
led the initiative by raising funds from many local businesses who agreed to pay one-half
of their employees' childcare costs.
In 1948, and again in 1952, Mrs. BABER was appointed to the Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council, which Council was directed by the General Assembly to rewrite
juvenile court laws in Virginia. In Lynchburg, she was instrumental in establishing the
juvenile court system as a separate system from the Municipal Court.
Mrs. Lucy BABER served as chairman of the State Welfare Committee of the
Virginia Federation of Woman's Clubs, which was responsible for surveying all children
being housed in adult jail cells in Virginia.
At the age of five years, Lucy Miller HARRISON reportedly swam across the James
River. Her father, dressed in business clothes, was in a rowboat alongside. Always an
avid sportswoman, she also won the city championship in tennis while in high school.
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Golf, however, proved to be her lifelong interest. She won local golf championships
numerous times and was twice a state finalist in the Virginia State Golf Association
tournaments in the Senior Division.
In 1968, with Evelyn L. MOORE as researcher, Mrs. BABER compiled material for
the publication of Behind the Old Brick Wall: A Cemetery Story. In 1971, she was
compiler, with Hazel Letts WILLIAMSON, of Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia,
1782-1810. In the third publication (1980), Marriages and Deaths from Lynchburg,
Virginia, Newspapers 1794-1836, she was teamed with co-compilers Louise Ann
BLUNT and Marion Armistead COLLINS. In 1992, she completed and published her
fourth genealogical book, William Norvell (1746-1794) of Hanover County, Virginia: His
Forebears and Descendants. She was assisted by Sargent Ward BRADEN and Jaquelin
Ambler Nicholas HARVEY as co-compilers.
Lucy Harrison Miller BABER died 27 July 1996 in Lynchburg, Virginia.
[Lucy Harrison Miller Baber, William Norvell (1746-1794) of Hanover Co., Va.: His Forebears and
Descendants (Lynchburg: Compiler, 1992), dust jacket, p. 11; The Critic-Crest, 1926 (Lynchburg:
Lynchburg High School, 1926), p. 15; "Wedding of Lucy Harrison Miller and Charles George Baber,"
Lynchburg News, 7 October 1934, p. 9 col. 1; Interview, Jane S. (Baber) White, 31 May 1996; Letter, Jane
S. (Baber) White, 10 July 1996; Obituary, Lynchburg News & Advance, 28 July 1996, Sect. C, p. 1 col. 1.]
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LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996) PAPERS
The collection includes research notes for the book, Behind the Old Brick Wall,
compiled by Lucy Harrison Miller BABER, about the Lynchburg, Virginia, City
Cemetery ("Old Methodist Cemetery"). The cemetery notes contain field notes from
copying tombstone inscriptions, usually more detailed than the published inscriptions.
Along with the cemetery records are notes and plates for publication of the book,
Campbell County Marriages 1782-1810, also compiled by BABER. Genealogical notes
on BABER and related families, notes on Samuel Jordan HARRISON (1771-1846),
miscellaneous Bible records, and information collected on the Firemen's Memorial
Fountain, are also included.
[Detailed finding guide available with the collection]
MS1910
JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996) PAPERS
The collection includes research notes for the book, Behind the Old Brick Wall,
compiled by Lucy Harrison Miller BABER, about the Lynchburg, Virginia, City
Cemetery ("Old Methodist Cemetery"). The cemetery notes contain field notes from
copying tombstone inscriptions, usually more detailed than the published inscriptions.
Along with the cemetery records are notes and plates for publication of the book,
Campbell County Marriages 1782-1810, also compiled by BABER. Genealogical notes
on BABER and related families, notes on Samuel Jordan HARRISON (1771-1846),
miscellaneous Bible records, and information collected on the Firemen's Memorial
Fountain, are also included.
BOX 1 Behind the Old Brick Wall (I)
1-1 Roster of Burials - Main Sector (1806-1913)
1-2 Roster of Burials - Confederate Section
1-3 Union Soldiers Interred
1-4 File Made from Ledger in City Files (1914- ) (Copy 1)
1-5 File Made from Ledger in City Files (1914- ) (Copy 2)
1-6 Record of Burials ( -1965)
BOX 2 Behind the Old Brick Wall (II)
2-1 Record of Burials (Surveys 1929, 1965)
2-2 Reports of City Council
2-3 City Files
2-4 Confederate Markers
2-5 Deeds
2-6 DIUGUID Funeral Home Records
2-7 Newspaper Articles
2-8 Maps
2-9 St. Paul's Parish Register (Communicants Buried in City Cemetery)
2-10 W.P.A. Project (1937)
2-11 Correspondence
2-12 Survey Records (1926-1929)
2-13 Miscellaneous Notes
2-14 Index (Partial)
2-15 Book Reviews
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BOX 3
3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-5
Behind the Old Brick Wall (III)
ADAMS, Parham ( -1821)
CHILDS, Rev. John W.
DONIPHAN, Rev. Alexander (1820- )
DUFFEL Family
ESSEX, Benjamin and Mrs. Ann,
THURMAN, John (1773-1855)
3-6 GARLAND, Samuel (House)
3-7 GRAY, Francis (1759-1827)
3-8 HARRIS, Phillip Andrew Jackson (1838-1888)
3-9 HENING Family
3-10 HOLBROOK, Josiah (1788-1854)
3-11 HOLMES, Joshua
3-12 HOYLE, Charles/HORSLY, John D./HARPER, Fred (203 Federal Street)
3-13 JEFFERSON, Emmett (ca.1878-1911)
3-14 MORGAN, Anthony
3-15 NORVELL, William Wiatt (1795-1871)
3-16 PRIDE, Claiborne
3-17 RANDOLPH, Virginia Cabell
3-18 SMITHSON Family
3-19 TALBOT, William A.
3-20 TILDEN, John Bell, Jr. (1801-1876)
3-21 TUCKER, Maria Ball Carter
3-22 VAWTER, Bransford
3-23 VICTOR, Mary J.
3-24 WORD, Col. William E. M.
3-25 Reminiscences (1896)
3-26 Western Cemetery (Louisville, KY) (TALBOT/PATTEN)
BOX 4 Behind the Old Brick Wall (IV)
Card File - Burials in Main Sector (1806-1913)
A - Mc
BOX 5 Behind the Old Brick Wall (V)
Card File - Burials in Main Sector (1806-1913)
M-Z
BOX 6 Behind the Old Brick Wall (VI)
Card File - Burials in Confederate Section
A-L
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BOX 7 Behind the Old Brick Wall (VII)
Card File - Burials in Confederate Section M - Z
Card File - Union Soldiers Buried, Later Removed to Federal Cemetery
A-Z
BOX 8
BOX 9
8-1
8-2
8-3
8-4
8-5
8-6
8-7
8-8
8-9
BABER Family
HARRISON Family
NORVELL Family
OGLESBY Family
PANNILL Family
Miscellaneous Bible Records
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Firemen's Memorial Fountain (Fire Dept. History)
Tombstone Inscriptions (St.Stephen's Church, Forest, Va.)
Card File, BABER Family
BOX 10 Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1810
10-1 Copyright
10-2 Map
10-3 Miscellaneous Notes and Bonds
10-4 Publication Notes
10-5 Typescript
10-6 Typescript (Final Masters and Prints)
[Negatives stored at Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
[BOX 11] Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1810
Printer's Plates
BOX 12 William Norvell of Hanover County, Virginia (I)
12-1 NORVELL (I)
12-2 NORVELL (II)
12-3 NORVELL (III)
12-4 NORVELL (IV)
12-5 NORVELL (V)
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BOX 13 William Norvell of Hanover County, Virginia (II)
13-1 NORVELL (VI)
13-2 NORVELL (VII)
13-3 NORVELL (VIII)
13-4 NORVELL (IX)
13-5 NORVELL (X)
13-6 WARWICK, Susannah Caroline (WARWICK) - Diary
BOX 14 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (I)
14-1 Family Group Sheets/Charts
14-2 Maps
14-3 Miscellaneous Notes/Photos
14-4 ANDERSON
14-8 CUNNINGHAM
14-5 ARGYLE
14-9 FITZPATRICK
14-6 BALL
14-10 GRAY/POWELL
14-7 BURTON
14-11 HARRIS
BOX 15 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (II)
15-1 HARRISON (I)
15-7 LUCKE/SAUNDERS (I)
15-2 HARRISON (II)
15-8 LUCKE/SAUNDERS (II)
15-3 HARRISON (III)
15-9 MACON
15-4 HUDSON
15-10 McGRUDER
15-5 JONES
15-11 MILLER
15-6 KING
15-12 MOTHERSHEAD
BOX 16 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (III)
16-1 NEWTON
16-7 TREVILIAN (I)
16-2 OVERTON
16-8 TREVILIAN (II)
16-3 PANNILL
16-9 TREVILIAN (III)
16-4 SCOTT
16-10 WILLIAMSON
16-5 STARKE
16-11 WINSTON
16-6 TAYLOR
16-12 WOOLFOLK
BOX 17 Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes (IV)
17-1 CALLAWAY
17-2 CLEMENTS
17-3 COLLIER
17-4 DANDRIDGE (Bible record)
17-5 DILLS
17-6 GILLESPIE
17-7 MACON
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BOX 17
17-8 McKENZIE
17-9 MATHEWS
17-10 TWYMAN
17-11 OTEY, Lucy Mina - Commission
17-12 "Wenzel's Pedigree Chart"
17-13 Fork Union Presbyterian Church History
BOX 18
18-1
18-2
18-3
18-4
18-5
18-6
18-7
BABER, Charles G.
BABER, Lucy Harrison (MILLER)
BABER (Mabel TALLEY Correspondence) (I)
BABER (Mabel TALLEY Correspondence) (II)
BABER (Chart)
BABER (Freemond W. BABER)
BABER (Miscellaneous Notes) (I)
BOX 19
19-1
19-2
19-3
19-4
19-5
19-6
19-7
BABER (Miscellaneous Notes) (II)
BABER (Miscellaneous Notes) (III)
BABER (Group Sheets) (I)
BABER (Group Sheets) (II)
BABER (Group Sheets) (III)
BABER (Group Sheets) (IV)
BABER (Group Sheets) (V)
BOX 20
20-1 BABER (Correspondence) (I)
20-2 BABER (Correspondence) (II)
20-3 BABER (Correspondence) (III)
20-4 BABER (Correspondence) (IV)
20-5 BABER (Correspondence) (V)
20-6 BABER (Correspondence) (VI)
20-7 BABER (Correspondence) (VII)
BOX 21
21-1
21-2
21-3
21-4
21-5
21-6
BABER (Correspondence) (VIII)
BABER (Correspondence) (IX)
BABER (Correspondence) (X)
"BABERs Since the Civil War"
BABER (England) (I)
BABER (England) (II)
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BOX 22
22-1 NORVELL (Book Draft)
22-2 NORVELL (Book Draft)
22-3 "History of the NORVELL and Related Families" (SCHMITT &
NORVELL)
22-4 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (I)
22-5 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (II)
22-6 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (III)
22-7 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (IV)
22-8 NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (V)
BOX 23
23-1
23-2
23-3
23-4
23-5
23-6
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (VI)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (VII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (VIII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (IX)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (X)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XI)
BOX 24
24-1
24-2
24-3
24-4
24-5
24-6
24-7
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XIII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XIV)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XV)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XVI)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XVII)
NORVELL (Miscellaneous Notes) (XVIII)
BOX 25
25-1 BABER Charts (JACKSON) (I)
25-2 BABER Charts (JACKSON) (II)
25-3 "The NORVELL Family in Virginia" (BABER, 1965) (I)
25-4 "The NORVELL Family in Virginia" (BABER, 1965) (II)
25-5 "History of the NORVELL and Related Families" (John E.
NORVELL)
25-6 NORVELLs and Paper Money (WILLIAMSON)
25-7 Notes (B. C. MILLER)
BOX 26 Note Cards - NORVELL
BOX 27 Keep Lynchburg Beautiful Commission
27-1 Minutes/Membership
27-5 Aviary
27-2 Committee Reports
27-6 Newspaper Clippings
27-3 Correspondence
27-7 Miscellaneous
27-4 Projects Winton Cemetery (APVA)
27-8 Miscellaneous Notes
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LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996) PAPERS
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BOX 28 Child Welfare (I)
28-1 Advisory Committee – Youth Services, Juvenile and Domestic Relations
28-2 Advisory Legislative Council - Juvenile Court Laws
28-3 Child Care Center
28-4 Children's Home Society of Virginia
28-5 Foster Homes
28-6 Junior League Legislative Committee
28-7 Juvenile Court System – Notes
28-8 Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court - Code of Virginia
28-9 Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court - Miscellaneous
28-10 Legislative Committees-Correspondence
28-11 Youth Board News
28-12 Youth Service News
BOX 29 Child Welfare (II)
29-1 "Children in Jail"
29-2 Class Notes - Psychiatry
29-3 Correspondence (I)
29-4 Correspondence (II)
29-5 Drug Addiction
29-6 Miscellaneous
29-7 Newspaper Clippings
29-8 Pamphlets - Miscellaneous
29-9 Welfare Department - Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs
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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996)
Lucy Harrison MILLER, daughter of Edgar Patton MILLER and Eleanor Selden
LUCKE, was born 17 March 1908 in Lynchburg, Virginia. She graduated as class
valedictorian from Lynchburg High School in 1926. She attended Chatham Hall and was
graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1932.
Lucy Harrison MILLER married 6 October 1934 Charles George BABER, son of
John Lafayette BABER and Alverta Lee DILLS, of Lynchburg.
A founding member of the Hillside Garden Club and of the Spinsters German in
Lynchburg, Lucy H. M. BABER was active in a number of organizations, including the
Lynchburg Junior League and the Lynchburg Historical Foundation. She served as State
Trustee for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA). She
was also member of a number of hereditary organizations including the Jamestowne
Society, the Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1623/24, the Lynchburg Committee
of the National Society of Colonial Dames in Virginia, the Blue Ridge Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Kirkwood Otey Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Long active in local and state affairs, in 1943, Mrs. BABER established the Child
Care Center in Lynchburg, which continued in operation for more than fifty years.
Before this time, no day care facilities existed. Declining Federal funding, Mrs. BABER
led the initiative by raising funds from many local businesses who agreed to pay one-half
of their employees' childcare costs.
In 1948, and again in 1952, Mrs. BABER was appointed to the Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council, which Council was directed by the General Assembly to rewrite
juvenile court laws in Virginia. In Lynchburg, she was instrumental in establishing the
juvenile court system as a separate system from the Municipal Court.
Mrs. Lucy BABER served as chairman of the State Welfare Committee of the
Virginia Federation of Woman's Clubs, which was responsible for surveying all children
being housed in adult jail cells in Virginia.
At the age of five years, Lucy Miller HARRISON reportedly swam across the James
River. Her father, dressed in business clothes, was in a rowboat alongside. Always an
avid sportswoman, she also won the city championship in tennis while in high school.
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LUCY HARRISON MILLER BABER (1908-1996)
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Golf, however, proved to be her lifelong interest. She won local golf championships
numerous times and was twice a state finalist in the Virginia State Golf Association
tournaments in the Senior Division.
In 1968, with Evelyn L. MOORE as researcher, Mrs. BABER compiled material for
the publication of Behind the Old Brick Wall: A Cemetery Story. In 1971, she was
compiler, with Hazel Letts WILLIAMSON, of Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia,
1782-1810. In the third publication (1980), Marriages and Deaths from Lynchburg,
Virginia, Newspapers 1794-1836, she was teamed with co-compilers Louise Ann
BLUNT and Marion Armistead COLLINS. In 1992, she completed and published her
fourth genealogical book, William Norvell (1746-1794) of Hanover County, Virginia: His
Forebears and Descendants. She was assisted by Sargent Ward BRADEN and Jaquelin
Ambler Nicholas HARVEY as co-compilers.
Lucy Harrison Miller BABER died 27 July 1996 in Lynchburg, Virginia.
[Lucy Harrison Miller Baber, William Norvell (1746-1794) of Hanover Co., Va.: His Forebears and
Descendants (Lynchburg: Compiler, 1992), dust jacket, p. 11; The Critic-Crest, 1926 (Lynchburg:
Lynchburg High School, 1926), p. 15; "Wedding of Lucy Harrison Miller and Charles George Baber,"
Lynchburg News, 7 October 1934, p. 9 col. 1; Interview, Jane S. (Baber) White, 31 May 1996; Letter, Jane
S. (Baber) White, 10 July 1996; Obituary, Lynchburg News & Advance, 28 July 1996, Sect. C, p. 1 col. 1.]
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Dublin Core
Title
Finding Aid to the Lucy Harrison Miller Baber Papers
Subject
Finding aids
Baber, Lucy Harrison Miller, 1908-1996
Description
Finding aid to the Lucy Harrison Miller Baber Papers held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The papers include research notes about Old City Cemetery and genealogy notes. Baber published two books, Behind the Old Brick Wall and Campbell County Marriages.
Creator
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Publisher
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Date
2024
Rights
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.)
Format
pdf
Language
English
Identifier
JMLMS1910FA
Collection
Citation
George M. Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Va.), “Finding Aid to the Lucy Harrison Miller Baber Papers,” Digital Collections, accessed April 27, 2024, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/673.