Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Jeremiah W. Graves Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Jeremiah W. Graves Collection, Ms2012-084, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Acquisition Information

The Jeremiah W. Graves Collection was purchased by Special Collections in October 2012.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Jeremiah W. Graves Collection was completed in December 2012.

Biographical Note

The collection relates primarily to the personal and business activities of Captain Jeremiah White Graves (1801-1878), a farmer, neighborhood financial advisor, real estate broker, and enslaver of people who resided in Cedar Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Scope and Content

The Jeremiah White Graves Collection includes a cash book, correspondence, receipts and ledger pages, newspaper clippings, and genealogy materials.

The manuscript portion of the collection consists of the cash book and account ledger pages documenting Graves' business ventures (sales of crops, purchases from local businesses, etc.) and correspondence created in Graves' role as a real estate broker and enslaver of people, as well as letters of a personal nature exchanged between family members.

The genealogy portion of the collection includes types copies of wills, deeds, and contracts, as well as typed, compiled histories for branches of the Graves, Whitehead, and Jones and Hunt families.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically by document type.

Related Material

Special Collections also holds related archival materials, the Jeremiah W. Graves Diary Ms.1990-033 (Consult the Online Finding Aid ) and the Anna Whitehead Kenney Papers Ms.1990-022, who was Jeremiah W. Graves's great-granddaughter.

Additionally, there are materials of Jeremiah W. Graves housed at the University of Virginia's Special Collections department in Charlottesville.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Civil War
• Kenney, Anna Whitehead
• Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
• Slavery -- United States
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865