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Preferred Citation:
Elizabeth Hogg Ironmonger Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gifts in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1994, and 1995. Acc. 1984.04; 1994.60; 1995.54; 1997.53; 1998.05; 1997.01.
Elizabeth ("Bessie") Lindsay Hogg was born 4 October 1891 to William H. Hogg and Frances Elizabeth Winder Hogg. She attended
the Woman's College, Richmond, Va. She married John Wesley Ironmonger of Seaford, Va. on 10 March 1909. She died in 1985.
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Papers, circa 1900-1997, of Elizabeth Hogg Ironmonger, genealogist. Includes genealogical notes, history of post offices in
York County, Virginia, a record of Revolutionary War claims by York County inhabitants, history of the Grafton Baptist Church,
Methodism in York County, Virginia, a map of the Jamestown Exposition grounds in Norfolk, Virginia, copies (only a few pages)
from the Abingdon Parish Register, the Kingston Parish Register, and the Northumberland County Order Book.
There is genealogical data on numerous families as well as typescript genealogies of York County, Virginia families transcribed
by Ironmonger and by her daughter, Thelma Hansford.
Families for which there is information include Sparrow, Winder, Hogg, Hopkins and Ironmonger, Hayward/Howard, Curtis, Wainwright,
Powell and many others.
Photographs of the 19th century Catherine Dudley Cary Pescud Mourning Broach can be found in Box 2, Folder 4.
Family tree of James Wesley Sparrer, the Isaac S. Couch family tree, the family tree of Mary Hester Sparrer, and Sparrow and
Isacc S. Couch family tree.
Family tree of Henry Alan Harris of Seaford, Crab Neck, Virginia. Oversize.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id146026
Box 2
Scope and Contents
A mourning broach of Catherine Dudley Cary Pescud, early nineteenth century, is located in the Artifact File. See genealogical
notes on Mrs. Pescud in Box 2 Folder 4.
Autobiography of Annie Fletcher Clendening: The Experience of a York County, Virginia Teenager
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id146053
Obituaries of C.W. Smith, Captain William C. Messick, Mrs. Fannie Carmines, Mrs. Elizabeth H. White, Franklin Woodward Carmines,
J.W. Hogg, William T. James, Reverend Cyrus B. James, Luther Berry White, Reverend John French White, and Mrs. Martha Cowles
White.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id146054
Marriage, Death, and Birth Certificates and Records of Burial in the Cemetery of Hornsbyville Baptist Mission
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id146055
General List of Claims for the County of York, Virginia in the Revolutionary War
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id146056
York County Records
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id146057
Ironmonger Memoir
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 32 id146058
Speech by Mr. Winthrop Rockefeller: "The Human Side of George Washington"
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 33 id146059
Proof of Lineage to Ironmonger, Custis, Drake, Revell, and Chandler Families
Typewritten Volume Entitled "The Curtis Family of York County, Virginia" by Thelma Ironmonger Hansford (Mss. Acc. 1994.60)
1989 January
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 39
Typewritten Volume Entitled "The Curtis Family of York County, Virginia" by Thelma Ironmonger Hansford (Mss. Acc. 1994.60)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 39 id146081
Typewritten Genealogy of the Sparrow/Sparrer Family of Princess Anne, Accomack, and York Counties in Virginia, by Thelma Ironmonger
Hansford (Mss. Acc. 1995.54)
1995 September 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 40 id146082
Typewritten Genealogy of the Wainwright Family from the Files of Thelma Hansford (Mss. Acc. 1995.54)
1995 February
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 41
Genealogical Notes on the Hayward and Howard Families of York County (1997.01)
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 42 id146083
Copy of Thelma Hansford's 1997 Genealogy on the Powell Family, a Prominent Family in York County (Mss. Acc. 1997.53)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 43 id146085
Spiral Bound Notebook Entitled "Some Lindsays of Virginia" by Elizabeth (Bessie) Hogg Ironmonger, Seaford, Virginia" (Mss.
Acc. 1998.5)
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