Recent Donations to the Archives

We are truly thankful when people entrust their family documents and photographs, or copies of them, to the Archives for preservation and sharing with researchers. Here are some of the recent items we have received.
Flavius P., Paul and Melinda Clark donated one of Melinda's prints of the Saline Milling Co. at Bumpus Mills. A mill stood on the site for 150 years under various owners from the 1810s to the 1960s.

Becky Weaks Brandvik donated beautiful framed portraits of W. T. Thomas and Martha (Gray) Thomas of Cumberland City. She also donated family histories on the Bayer and Gray families, as well as photographs from the Weaks and Ross families.

John Walsh donated two early-1900s photographs that he 'rescued' from an online auction so that they could return to Stewart County. One depicts the John Boswell house near Fort Henry, and the other depicts the John W. Wofford home halfway between Dover and Fort Henry.
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Mary Ann Dill Jordan let us make copies of her personal family research notes from the Bartee, Tishel, Geurin and Dill families. Also included was a biography of Newman Brandon Jr., and a copy of "Potpourri" by Anna Mary Tishel Brandon, and Mary Ann's personal family scrapbook of Tishel, Dill, Vinson and Jordan family history.