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Roller Family Papers, 1828-1974, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.
The Roller Family Papers were received by the Virginia Historical Society in 1989 as the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore. They were accessioned 25 September 1995.
Records of three generations of the Cabell family of "Inglewood," Variety Mills, Nelson co., Va., and two generations of the Roller family of Harrisonburg, Va.
Represented are George Washington Cabell (1802-1869), farmer and planter, and his wife, Mary Anne (Anthony) Cabell (1808-1868), daughter of Christopher Anthony, Jr. (1776-1835), attorney of Lynchburg, Va.; their son-in-law, Joseph Laidley (1829-1861); their daughter, Lucy Brown Cabell (1836-1911), called "Lucie," who never married; their son, Patrick Henry Cabell (1837-1907), called "Pat," professor at Lynchburg Military College, Superintendent of Schools for Nelson co., and employee of Southern Railway; Patrick Henry Cabell's wife, Elizabeth Willis Eubank (1843-1907), called "Bettie," daughter of Royal H. Eubank of Nelson co., Va.; and their children, Patrick Henry "Carey" Cabell (1864-1920), of Richmond, Va., lawyer and representative of the Travelers Insurance Company; Mary Caroline Cabell (1866-1942), called "Callie," a Hollins Institute graduate who ran a school at the family home, "Inglewood"; Anne Woolston (Cabell) Flowers (1869-1958), graduate of the State Female Normal School at Farmville, Va. [now Longwood College], who married Charles H. Flowers of Vandemere, N.C.; Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller (1871-1914), called "Lily," teacher, who married John Edwin Roller of Harrisonburg, Va.; George Washington Cabell (1873-1943), of "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., farmer and justice of the peace, graduate of the Virginia Military Institute who later studied law at the University of Virginia and ran, with his sister, Mary Caroline Cabell, the Inglewood school; Margaret "Etta" (Cabell) Matthews (1876-1969), who attended the State Female Normal School at Farmville, Va. [now Longwood College], and taught at schools in western Virginia, married the Rev. Nathan Matthews, Anglican missionary and priest from Newfoundland and lived with him in Liberia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Massachusetts; Royal Eubank Cabell (1878-1950), who attended Roanoke College, Salem, Va., Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and Richmond College (now the University of Richmond), lawyer of Richmond, Va., later U.S. Postmaster of Richmond, 1906-1909, and Commissioner of Internal Revenue under President Theodore Roosevelt before returning to Richmond to resume his law practice; and Somers Eubank Cabell (1885-1919), who studied electrical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Va., and later worked for General Electric and the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company.
Also represented are Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller's husband, John Edwin Roller (1844-1918), prominent lawyer of Harrisonburg, Va., Confederate veteran, instructor at the Virginia Military Institute, which he attended, and active member of the Republican Party; his daughters by his first marriage, Frances Lewis (Roller) Grattan, called "Lewie," of Harrisonburg, Va., and Margaret Stuart (Roller) Cannady Ogilvie Merryman, called "Marco," of Harrisonburg, Va., and W. Va.; and his daughters with Lucy Brown Cabell, "Lucy Cabell" Roller (1899-1949) of Harrisonburg and Richmond, Va., who attended Randolph-Macon Women's College and Columbia University; Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore (1902-1993) of Harrisonburg and Richmond, Va., who attended Chatham Hall, Randolph-Macon Women's College, and Wellesley College, and married William Gordon Bottimore of Richmond and Glens Falls, N.Y.; and Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle (1904-1977) of Richmond, Va., who attended Chatham Hall and Wellesley College and married Wilfred Pyle (b. ca. 1907), son of artist Howard Pyle.
Also included are scattered letters of the Micklem, Eubank, Calwell, and related families.
Chiefly the papers of Elizabeth Willis (Eubank) Cabell, her daughters Mary Caroline Cabell and Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller, Lucy's husband, John Edwin Roller, and Lucy and John's daughter, Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore, consisting primarily of correspondence among the various members of the Cabell family.
Elizabeth Willis (Eubank) Cabell's correspondence with her nine children documents their attendance at various Virginia universities, their work as lawyers, teachers, and engineers, their marriages and the births of their children, and her domestic activities running the large household at Inglewood and the taking of summer boarders.
Papers of Mary Caroline Cabell include correspondence with her siblings concerning the activities of various family members, social events in Nelson County, and the running of the Inglewood school.
Papers of Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller include correspondence with female family members and friends concerning her marriage, the births of her daughters, the activities of her Cabell relatives, and her involvement with several patriotic societies.
Papers of John Edwin Roller consist primarily of correspondence concerning his plans to run for election to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1872, and, after his marriage in 1896, the well-being of his wife and daughters, especially the activities of daughters Frances and Margaret while attending the Woman's College, Frederick, Md. [now Hood College], and Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.
Papers of Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore consist mainly of correspondence with aging Cabell and Roller relations and with friends in America and abroad while she lived in Glens Falls, N.Y., and concern her social life and family news.
The papers of the Cabell and Roller families are arranged into series as follows:
Kept at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va. Concerns farming operations and lumber trade. Includes short stories written by Lucy Brown Cabell (1836-1911).
Kept at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va. Includes essays and lines of verse, chiefly on religious topics.
Kept in Richmond, Va., at Huguenot Springs, Powhatan co., Va., and on a railroad trip from Richmond to Boston, Mass. Concerns activities as an officer of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Also, includes lists of members of the American Pharmaceutical Association, notes, and accounts.
Include letters of Delphia Boudreaux (while serving with the Bienville Guards, Company C, 5th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., concerning the Chancellorsville Campaign, 1863), niece Anne Woolston (Cabell) Flowers (while away from home, teaching at Timberville, Va., Scotland, Ky., and Vandemere, N.C., concerning social life in Nelson co. and family news), William Henry Kinckle (concerning religious dedication), and niece Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller (after her marriage and removal to Harrisonburg, Va., concerning home life in both Nelson co. and Harrisonburg).
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Concerns the account of Lucy Brown Cabell in the National Exchange Bank of Lynchburg, Va.
Kept at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va. Include lines of verse.
Materials relate to Margaret C. Cabell, while an
inmate at the Western Lunatic Asylum (now Western
State Hospital), Staunton, Va.
Include correspondence with C. J. Armistead,
Margaret Clifford Cabell, Doctor Daniel Burr Conrad,
Doctor Edward Carrington Fisher, Lizzie W. LeNeve,
and George S. Walker.
Include obituary notices of George Washington Cabell (1802-1869), Mary Anne (Anthony) Cabell (1808-1868), William Washington Cabell, Sarah Syme (Cabell) Laidley (1830-1862), Mrs. Sallie Morris, Harriet W. Steptoe, and Sarah Armistead (Garland) Waller; visiting cards of Lucy Brown Cabell and Sarah Syme (Cabell) Laidley; materials concerning the Louisiana State Lottery; recipes; and lines of verse.
Correspondence of Patrick Henry Cabell of "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., while serving as county superintendent of schools, and at Lynchburg, Va., while employed by the Southern Railway Company, chiefly with his wife, Elizabeth Willis (Eubank) Cabell, and daughters Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller and Mary Caroline Cabell. Of particular interest is a letter, 1862, of Mary Anne (Anthony) Cabell written prior to her death listing possessions to be distributed among her children; and a letter to J. W. Henley enclosed in a letter of Patrick Henry Carey Cabell concerning mineral rights and copper mines at "Inglewood" and other properties in Nelson Co.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Kept in Lynchburg, Va.
Include notebooks and Latin and Greek exercise books, 1854-1858, kept as a student at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., and while teaching at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va.; commonplace book, 1858-1859, kept while teaching at Lynchburg College; and notes, 1858, concerning graduates of Emory and Henry College and classes at Lynchburg College.
Invitations to attend weddings and commencement ceremonies at the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va.
Correspondence of Elizabeth Willis "Bettie"
(Eubank) Cabell, of "Inglewood," Variety Mills,
Nelson co., Va., chiefly with her children and female
relatives. Most non-family correspondence are letters
of condolence for the deaths of various family
members or requests for summer board.
Of particular interest are letters of John
Willis Cabell while attending Roanoke College, Salem,
Va., 1898-1900, and working on the construction of
railroads in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1901-1907;
Patrick Henry Carey Cabell of Richmond, Va.,
concerning his law practice, health, and family news;
Royal Eubank Cabell while attending Princeton
University and while in Richmond working as his
brother Carey's law partner, often discussing his
brother's health problems and business activities;
Somers Eubank Cabell while attending Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., 1902-1906,
and working as an electrical engineer in Schnectedy,
N.Y., 1907; Annie Woolston (Cabell) Flowers
concerning her employment as a teacher in Vandemere,
N.C., 1903-1905; the Lorraine family of Richmond,
Va., concerning mutual friends and relations;
Margaret Etta (Cabell) Matthews while teaching school
in Farmville and Salem, Va., in the late 1890s, and
after her marriage to Rev. Nathan Matthews and move
to Liberia, 1905-1907, describing the mission school
and local customs; and Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller
discussing her adjustment as stepmother to her
husbands' teenage daughters, the birth of her own
children, and servant problems.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 4: A-Cabell, Patrick Henry
Box 5: Cabell, Royal Eubank - J
Box 6: L - end
Including visiting cards, recipe, notes on health care, and lines of verse.
Correspondence of Patrick Henry "Carey" Cabell, chiefly with his brothers and sisters. Letters, 1899-1907, to George Washington Cabell of Inglewood, Nelson co., Va., concern purchases of supplies for the farm and advice on farming and land transactions. Letters, 1897-1920[?], to Mary Caroline Cabell of Inglewood discuss family activities, Carey's health, and his engagements to Ethel Davison McDunnough of Montreal, Canada, in 1900 (later broken) and Mrs. Anne (Renfro) Tomlinson of Philadelphia, Pa., whom he married just months before his death in 1920. Letters, 1913-1918, to Mrs. Mary Hunter of Pendleton, Va., indicate the existence of a close friendship and mutual admiration. Letters, 1896-1912, to Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller of Harrisonburg, Va., include a letter, 1899 May 31, announcing Carey's engagement to Ethel Davison McDunnough and giving information about her background, and a letter, 1900 March 16, enclosing a sketch by Carey of Samuel Jordan Cabell (1756-1818).
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
"A lively little journal edited and printed entirely by boys." Percy G. Elsom, editor; Patrick Henry Carey Cabell, associate editor.
Includes a bookplate, business card, and program for University of Virginia Public Day exercises, 1890 July 2, listing Patrick Henry Carey Cabell as receiving a Bachelor of Law degree.
Correspondence of Mary Caroline "Callie" Cabell,
primarily with female family members and friends.
Many letters are condolences for the deaths of
various family members, including Patrick Henry
Cabell (1907), Elizabeth Willis (Eubank) Cabell
(1907), Lucy Brown Cabell (1911), Somers Eubank
Cabell (1919), Patrick Henry Carey Cabell (1920), and
Ann Elizabeth (Moore) Cabell (1932). Also included
are letters from the parents of students at the
Inglewood school, chiefly concerning arrivals and
departures and fees.
Prominent correspondents include Elizabeth
Henry (Roller) Bottimore (early letters are from Mary
Caroline at Inglewood, Nelson co., Va., to Elizabeth
as a child living in Harrisonburg; later letters are
from Elizabeth in Richmond, Va., just before and
after her marriage. Topics include family activities
in Nelson co., and activities of Elizabeth and her
sisters Lucy Cabell Roller and Anne Woolston (Roller)
Pyle), Elsie (Hughes) Cabell (of Tom's Creek, Va.,
wife of Somers Eubank Cabell, discussing their
courtship, marriage, and family life), John Willis
Cabell (while attending Roanoke College, Salem, Va.,
1899-1900, teaching and working for railroads in
Kentucky, 1900-1902, and living in Charlotte, N.C.,
with his family, 1920-1921), Royal Eubank Cabell
(while attending Princeton University, 1898, working
as a lawyer in Richmond, Va., as Commissioner of
Internal Revenue in Washington, D.C., and after his
return to his Richmond law practice, concerning the
health of his brother, Patrick Henry Carey Cabell,
the activities of the Roller children and the
settlement of John Edwin Roller's estate, and family
news), Somers Eubank Cabell (while attending Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, 1903-1906, and working for
General Electric in Schnectady, N.Y.), Annie Woolston
(Cabell) Flowers (while teaching in Kentucky and
Vandemere, N.C., detailing life in Nelson co.,
illnesses among family members, plans for family
weddings, including hers in 1905, and her life in
Vandemere after her marriage), Margaret Etta (Cabell)
Matthews (chiefly from early in her marriage to Rev.
Nathan Matthews and while living in Liberia, and
later while living in Danvers, Mass., concerning her
husband's abuse and her quandary over whether to
leave him), Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle (early
letters concern her childhood in Harrisonburg, Va.,
and, after her mother's death in 1914, her education
and social life in Richmond, Va.), Lucy Brown
(Cabell) Roller (chiefly after her marriage to John
E. Roller and while living in Harrisonburg, Va.,
letters written to her from Mary Caroline concerning
life in Nelson co., including the comings and goings
of Cabell and Micklem family members and boarders,
marriages, illnesses, deaths, servant troubles, the
activities of sister Margaret Etta (Cabell) Matthews,
including her return from Africa for the births of
her children, requests for the purchase of various
items of clothing, and the well-being of Lucy's three
daughters), and Lucy Cabell Roller (while living as a
child in Harrisonburg, Va., and after the deaths of
her parents, at school and living in Richmond, Va.).
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent:
Box 8: A - Cabell
Box 9: Calloway - L
Box 10: M - P
Box 11: R - Roller, Lucy Brown (Cabell)
Box 12: Roller, Lucy Cabell - end
Include scattered accounts and a check stub book.
Include an account book, 1915-1916, for the Inglewood school; an issue of "The Album," student magazine published by Hollins Institute, 1883; and Mitchell's School Atlas (Philadelphia, 1853).
Contains engravings, lines of verse, and prose.
Includes calling cards, wedding invitations, tombstone inscriptions, and advertising materials.
Correspondence of Anne Woolston (Cabell) Flowers, chiefly with her sisters, Margaret Etta (Cabell) Matthews (concerning her life in Africa, 1904), and Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller (including letters to Lucy from Anne describing her teaching experiences in Timberville, Va., Scotland, Ky., and Vandemere, N.C.).
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Correspondence of Gen. John Edwin "Ned" Roller,
chiefly falling into two periods, 1870-1872,
concerning Roller's plans to run for election to the
Virginia House of Delegates, and 1895-1916,
concerning his marriage in 1896 to Lucy Brown Cabell,
and after, concerning his family life. Many
correspondents from the earlier period give details
of political sentiment on the local level (see
William Withers Adams, William B. W. Brooking, Henry
B. Harnsberger, Henry Marcellus Keyser, John Marshall
McCue, William Merry Perkins, E. D. Pettit, Charles
Summerville Rohr, Lawrence Royster, Ezra Eugenius
Stickley, William Harrison Triplett, John Richard
Wingfield, Charles Junius Woodson, and others).
Non-family letters from the later period are
typically letters of congratulations on his marriage.
Letters to Lucy Brown Cabell during their
courtship discuss the objections of Roller's teenage
daughters to their marriage, the age difference
between Roller and Lucy, and Lucy's father's
objections to the proposed marriage settlement.
Letters after their marriage are chiefly exchanged
while Roller is traveling on business and during
Lucy's annual visits to her family at Inglewood,
Nelson co., and discuss their children and domestic
issues.
Letters to Roller from daughters Frances Lewis
(Roller) Grattan and Margaret Stuart (Roller) Cannady
Ogilvie Merryman concern their attendance at Woman's
College, Frederick, Md. (now Hood College), in
particular social activities and financial needs.
Letters from Roller to daughters Elizabeth Henry
(Roller) Bottimore, Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle, and
Lucy Cabell Roller contain family news and fatherly
advice while they are away visiting Cabell relatives.
Also included is scattered correspondence with
Roller's brothers, Oliver Brown Roller, Peter Samuel
Roller, Robert Douglas Roller, and William Wirt
Roller, largely concerning the financing of their
respective educations. Oliver attended the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, Va. Peter attended
Augusta Military Academy. Robert attended the
Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent:
Box 15: A - G
Box 16: H - Roller, Edwin
Box 17: Roller, Lucy Brown
Box 18: Roller, Lucy Cabell - end
Includes accounts, 1894-1918, chiefly with Harrisonburg, Va., merchants, and including protests, 1912, against a note given to Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller.
Includes a list of students in Roller's class at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.; and examination questions from law classes at the University of Virginia, 1866.
Includes scattered letters of David Crockett, Browns Hotel, [Tex.], 1835; Samuel Houston, Washington, D.C., 1824; and William Gilmore Simms, Charleston, S.C., and New York, N.Y, 1868.
Includes wedding invitations, dinner invitations, commencement invitations for Woman's College of Frederick, Md. (now Hood College) and the Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va. (now Stuart Hall), responses to invitations, calling cards, and commissions, 1866 and 1868, appointing Roller vice-president of Mt. Crawford and Rockingham co. councils, Virginia State Council of the Friends of Temperance.
Correspondence of Lucy Brown "Lily" (Cabell) Roller of Harrisonburg, Va., chiefly with her family and female friends discussing family activities (marriages, births, and deaths), social activities, and visits. Prominent correspondents include her daughter Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore (while accompanying her father, John Edwin Roller, on trips west, 1907 and 1908, and visiting the Cabells at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va.), brother John Willis Cabell (while living at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., attending Roanoke College, Salem, Va., while working on railroads in Tennessee, and in Richmond, Va., working for his brother, Patrick Henry Carey Cabell, lawyer for the Travelers Insurance Company, concerning news of family and friends, social activities in Nelson co., railroad construction in Tennessee, and his engagement to Anne Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore); sister-in-law Lillian Hoge (Lorraine) Cabell (of Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., wife of Royal Eubank Cabell, discussing her children and social life in Richmond; letter of 1905 November 19 includes illustrations of children in various poses); cousin Lucy G. Cabell (of Norwood, Wingina, and "Union Hill," Nelson co., Va., giving news of Cabell relations, discussing the health of her invalid mother and brother-in-law, and discussing her embroidery work), cousin Mary Holmes (McGuire) Cabell (of Waynesboro, Va., concerning her domestic life), Virginia C. Gardner (of Valley Farm, Broaddus, Va., and other places, concerning her work as a school teacher, her recreational reading, mutual friends, clothing, social activities, the births of Lucy's children, and various Cabell marriages), Minnie (Cox) Graham (while visiting Summerville, S.C., and Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., and while living at Tazewell, Va., after her marriage to Judge Samuel Cecil Graham, concerning her social activities at Rockbridge Alum Springs, her views on Arctic exploration, her decision to break her engagement in order to accept Judge Graham's proposal, her wedding plans, and the birth of a daughter); step-daughter Frances Lewis "Lewie" (Roller) Grattan (while attending the Woman's College, Frederick, Md. [now Hood College], 1896-1897, and visiting relatives along the Eastern seaboard, concerning school life, clothing, and social activities), Lucy Bailey Heneberger (of Harrisonburg, Va., concerning the Massanutten Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution), cousin Caroline Elizabeth "Carrie" (Micklem) James (of "Roseland," Nelson co., Va., and at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., while attending Mary Caroline Cabell's school, discussing family life), sister Margaret "Etta" (Cabell) Matthews (while living with her missionary husband at Cape Mount and St. John's Station, Liberia, describing her daily life in Africa, 1904-1906 and 1909-1910, and while living at home at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., discussing family news), stepdaughter Margaret "Marco" Stuart (Roller) Cannady Ogilvie Merryman (while attending Woman's College, Frederick, Md. [now Hood College] and Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va., discussing school life, clothing and social activities), sister-in-law Caroline (Booker) Roller (of Charleston, W. Va., wife of Rev. Robert Douglas Roller, discussing family life), daughter Lucy Cabell Roller (during visits to Cabell relatives in Nelson co., Va., discussing social activities and family news), and Emma Louise (Lorraine) Sanders (of Richmond, Va., discussing social and family life and the activities of Frances Lewis (Roller) Grattan).
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent:
Box 20: A - B
Box 21: Cabell
Box 22: Call - Gardner
Box 23: Gentry - J
Box 24: L - N
Box 25: O - Rodgers
Box 26: Roller - end
Chiefly with Harrisonburg, Va., merchants for a variety of household items.
Include Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller's applications, dues notices, and correspondence, chiefly meeting announcements.
Include a resolution, 1914, on the death of Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller.
Invitations to weddings and graduations, and regrets to a party hosted by Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller and John Edwin Roller.
Include several of Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller's before her marriage, and cards of visitors to the Rollers during their first year in Harrisonburg, Va. (ca. 100 items).
Include contracts and estimates for house repairs, and embroidery patterns.
Correspondence of George Washington Cabell of "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., farmer and justice of the peace. Chiefly letters of condolence for the deaths of his parents, Patrick Henry Cabell (d. 1907) and Betty Willis (Eubank) Cabell (d. 1907), and brother Patrick Henry Carey Cabell (d. 1920). Prominent correspondents include brother Royal Eubank Cabell (of Richmond, Va., while practicing law and working for the Liability Department, Traveler's Insurance Company) and sister Margaret Etta "Ettie" (Cabell) Matthews (of Danvers, Mass., concerning the illness of brother Patrick Henry Carey Cabell and her marital problems).
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Include a list of accounts from W. M. Miller & Son, Inc., Lynchburg, Va., given to George Washington Cabell for collection.
Correspondence of Margaret Etta "Ettie" (Cabell) Matthews, including letters from family and female friends, mostly concerning social and family life at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va. Of particular interest are letters to nieces Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore and Lucy Cabell Roller, ca. 1905-1910, while Margaret and her husband, Nathan Matthews (1870-1936) were missionaries in Liberia.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Include accounts, 1903, and an essay on "Fires," 1888.
Chiefly with niece Lucy Cabell Roller of Harrisonburg, Va., while Cabell was travelling to the West Coast. Of particular interest is a letter of Mrs. Thomas B. Land enclosing an advertisement for the Woodstock School, Mathews co., Va., 1899.
Include monthly reports from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Correspondence of Frances Lewis "Lewie" (Roller) Grattan, primarily with her half-sister, Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore, and other female relatives concerning family affairs. Included are two love-letters from P. Howell Lightfoot of Petersburg, Va., 1901.
Scattered correspondence of Margaret Stuart "Marco" (Roller) Cannady Ogilvie Merryman, including letters to her half-sisters, Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore, Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle, and Lucy Cabell Roller (concerning the disposal of John Edwin Roller's library).
From Woman's College, Frederick, Md. [now Hood College] and Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va., including programs, grade reports, accounts, and an essay.
Correspondence of "Lucy Cabell" Roller (of Harrisonburg and Richmond, Va., and while attending Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Va.) with her sisters, Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore and Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle, and female friends and relatives, chiefly discussing family and social activities. Includes letters, 1910-1911, from Doria S[?] concerning the Camp Fire Girls.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Include account, 1937, with Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., Richmond, Va.; calling card bearing the Cabell coat of arms; newspaper clipping, n.d., announcing Lucy Cabell Roller's election as Commissioner of Girl Scouts in Richmond, Va.; and appraisal of personal property of the estate of Lucy C. Roller, Richmond, Va., 1949.
Correspondence of Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore of Richmond, Va., and Glens Falls, N.Y., chiefly with female friends and relatives concerning social activities, political events, etc. Prominent correspondents include her mother-in-law, Mrs. John S. Bottimore (of Tazewell, Va.), aunt Annie Cabell (Roller) Flowers (of Inglewood, Nelson co., Va.), half-sister Frances Lewis (Roller) Grattan (of Harrisonburg, Va.), aunt Margaret Etta "Ettie" (Cabell) Matthews (while living in Arrington, Va.), sister Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle (of Richmond, Va.), sister Lucy Cabell Roller (of Richmond, Va.), niece Lucy Cabell (Pyle) Sommerell (of Richmond, Va., and while attending Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., and on a European tour), and Edna Turpin.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent:
Box 30: A - H
Box 31: J - end
Include list of personal property belonging to the estate of Lucy Cabell Roller (1899-1949).
Volume I (1942) contains notes on Christmas gifts and cards, household and gardening tips, [notes for a garden society]. Volume II (n.d.) contains notes on music, religion, canning of vegetables, and interior decorating.
Include announcement for the marriage of Elizabeth Henry Roller and William Gordon Bottimore, 1931; and invitation and program for the marriage of Kathleen Cabell to James Patrick Belk, 1976.
Include Certificate of confirmation, 1916 August 20, Christ Church (Episcopal), Norwood, Va.; certificate of marriage, Elizabeth Henry Roller to William Gordon Bottimore, 1931 February 14, St. Paul's Church (Episcopal), Richmond, Va.; notes, recipes, and Red Cross cards and certificates, ca. 1942.
Scattered correspondence of Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle including correspondence with camp directors at Green Cove and Mondamin concerning her children, reports from Chatham Episcopal Institute, Chatham, Va., and a letter from Mrs. Margaret S. Rothert, Richmond, Va., enclosing a bank note on the Central Bank of Virginia signed by J. S. Roller.
Miscellaneous correspondence of various Cabell, Micklem and Roller family members, and others. Chiefly letters to Caroline Elizabeth (Micklem) James while attending school at "Inglewood," Nelson co., Va., including letters from John Willis Cabell, Lettie R. Goodwin, and Margaret Etta (Eubank) Micklem. Also included are letters of Anne Woolston (Cabell) Cabell to Margaret Clifford Cabell and Sallie Laidley Cabell; letter of Ellen B. (Roller) Robertson to Frances Antoinette (Roller) Calwell; and a letter from George S. Gibbs, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., 1873, to Robert Douglas Roller concerning the gaiety of fellow patrons of the springs. Caroline Elizabeth (Micklem) James correspondence is grouped together. All other correspondence alphabetically by author.