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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Thomas Ray Dille Papers, A&M 0171, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement books; Monongalia Academy and Woodburn Female Seminary ledgers, 1858; correspondence; legal papers; newspaper clippings; family papers; and an account book of J.R. Moore, 1837. Collection also contains papers on the West Virginia Historical Society, Morgantown and Wheeling Railroad, Sons of the Revolution and the Evansdale Corporation.

Related Material

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Birth, marriage, and death records.
• Cemeteries and cemetery readings
• Dill family
• Dille, Thomas Ray
• Evans family
• Evans, David.
• Evans, John
• Evansdale Corporation
• Genealogy
• McFarland family
• Mexican War, 1846-1848
• Monongalia Academy (Morgantown, W. Va.)
• Monongalia County (W. Va.)
• Moore, J.R.
• Morgantown (W. Va.)
• Ray family
• Revolutionary War.
• Sons of the Revolution
• Stuart family
• Tennant family
• United States -- History -- War of 1812
• West Virginia Historical Society
• Women's history -- 1800-1849
• Women's history -- 1850-1899
• Women's schools.