Hutsell, Virginia Dale Kyer Genealogy Research Collection, circa 1760s-2018
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Hutsell, Virginia Dale Kyer, 1924-2018
Title: Genealogy Research Collection, circa 1760s-2018
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 7 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss. A H981
Scope and Content Note
This family genealogy research collection consists of materials collected by Virginia Hutsell during her family history research. These items include: research notebooks, loose research notes, research correspondence letters, family histories and individual biographies, pedigree charts and family group sheets, copies of documents (land and probate records, censuses, vital record certificates), research-related newspaper clippings, and maps of the counties she was researching.
Surnames that Virginia Hutsell researched include: Kyer, Spencer, Caldwell, Morton, Workman, Cottle, Burns, Spring, Monroe, Haptonstall, Morrow, Price, Mullens, Hamrick, Riddle, Deal, Gibson, Gillespie, Lively, Boone, Ludington, Baughman, Rennick, Buchanan, Gibson, Gear, Clendenin, Breckenridge, Cottrell, Sutton, Cox, Davis, Gibson, Duffield, Given, Donaldson, Bransford, Crawford, Henkel, McCune, Knighton, and Helvestine.
Related Collections:
Kyer family papers. (Mss. A K99)
Kyer family photograph collection
Historical Note
Virginia Dale Kyer, daughter of Dotsy Fitzhugh Kyer and Minerva Spencer, was born on 17 February 1924 in Camden-on-Gauley, Webster, West Virginia. Dotsy and Minerva had three other children: Gerald Spencer, Charles Morton, and Lois. After Virginia attended school at Berea College, she moved to Louisville to take care of her ill sister. It was here that she worked as a librarian and teacher. She also met her husband, Thomas Hutsell, in Louisville and they were married on 30 August 1958. Virginia was always interested in her Kyer family history. She researched almost every branch of her tree, especially the Kyer, Spencer, Caldwell, Morton, and Mullens lines. To assist in her research, Virginia kept dutiful notes and copies and was active in several historical societies. She also notably maintained consistent research correspondence with her extended family as well as other researchers. After Virginia died on 21 January 2018 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, her loving husband, Thomas, donated her family research collection to the Filson Historical Society.
Sources:
“Obituary for Virginia Dale Hutsell,” Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, 23 January 2018.
Folder List
Box 1
General research materials, research correspondence, research notebooks, written family histories
Folder 1: Virginia and West Virginia research maps
Folder 2: Virginia repository correspondence
Folder 3: Virginia Dale Hutsell research correspondence
Folder 4: Virginia Dale Hutsell research correspondence, 1970s and 1980s
Folder 5: Virginia Dale Hutsell and Walder A. Niessen research correspondence
Folder 6: Virginia Dale Hutsell and Eula Conley research correspondence
Folder 7: Barbara Berry and Virginia Dale Kyer correspondence and Spencer research
Folder 8: Spencer, Caldwell, Cottle, Morton family research, loose notebook sheets
Folder 9: Virginia Dale Kyer research notebooks
Folders 10-11: Miscellaneous families research notebooks
Folder 12: Kyer family research, draft of family history
Folder 13: Kyer family research – research question queries
Folder 14: Persons attending Kyer reunions
Kyer surname research
Folder 15: Preface – origins of Kyer surname
Folder 16: Kyer family name origins – “Evidence of Early Presence”
Folder 17: Black binder – Kyer surname origins by miscellaneous Kyer family research
Folder 18: Kyer biographical sketches
Folder 19: Copenhagen Denmark Kyer record copies
Folder 20: Miscellaneous Kyer information, 2005
Folder 21: Kyer family research, miscellaneous loose papers
Folders 22-24: Kyer-related newspaper clippings
Folder 25: Miscellaneous Kyer research
Folders 26-31: Kyer family research
Box 2
Folder 32: Kyer family research, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Folder 33: Kyer family research, West Virginia county records
Folders 34-35: Kyer family research, 1970s
Folder 36: Kyer family research, land records and legal document copies
Folder 37: Kyer family research, Harrison County, West Virginia and Vol. II Greenbrier County 1910 census
Folder 38: Land grant copies – Augustain/Lewis/John Kyer
Folder 39: Armstrong family research (Kyer-related)
Folder 40: Kyer family research
Folder 41: Kyer family research – Biographical sketches and drafts
Folder 42: Kyer family research – Biographical sketches and related papers
Folder 43: Kyer family research – Biographical sketches, newspaper clippings, and related papers
Folder 44: Kyer family research – “Evidence of Early Presence” draft and Bogg family loose papers
Folders 45-46: Virginia Dale Kyer – Scrapbook immediate family
Folder 47: Descendants of Augustain Kyer group sheets
Folder 48: Descendants of John Kyer research
Folder 49: Ancestors of Patricia D. Kyer, Boone, Rogers, and Hamrick surname
Folder 50: Thomas Raleigh Kyer miscellaneous Kyer family research
Folder 51: Sarah A. Kyer research
Folder 52: Lydia Jane Kyer research
Folder 53: Cottle Burns Kyer research
Folder 54: James A. Kyer research
Folder 55: Susan Kyer Dawson Pressean research
Folder 56: John “Jack” Cogar research
Folder 57: Lola Kyer and Clownie Heaster research
Folder 58: William “Bill” Kyer research
Folder 59: Lucy M. Kyer Boggs research
Folder 60: Hutton Kyer research
Folder 61: John Marshall Kyer research
Folder 62: Elizabeth Lettitia Kyer research
Folder 63: Lois Beatrice (Kyer) Lively biographical sketch
Folder 64: D.F. Kyer biographical sketch draft, outline, and notes
Folder 65: James A. Kyer and Descendants research
Box 3
Folder 66: Sarah Duffield Kyer Ward research
Folder 67: Charles William Kyer research
Folder 68: Martha A. Kyer research
Folder 69: Fielding Kyer research
Folder 70: Mary B. Kyer research
Folder 71: Lydia Kyer (1817-1884) research
Folder 72: John D. Kyer research
Folder 73: “Sons History” – Charles William Kyer
Folder 74: John Kyer biographical sketch
Folder 75: Margaret Kyer Betts and Collateral lines/related research
Folder 76: Lewis Kyer and Riffle family research
Folder 77: Andrew Kyer, Dobbins family research
Folder 78: Sarah Ann (Kyer) Baldwin (1864-1945) research
Folder 79: Lucy May Kyer Boggs research
Folder 80: Hutton Kyer research
Folder 81: Charles Warren Kyer research
Folder 82: Lydia Kyer Gray research
Folder 83: Schroeder, Niessen, Cunningham, John Marshall Kyer research
Folder 84: Rex Kyer Noble, Baldwin family, notes and letters
Spencer surname research
Folders 85-93: Spencer family research
Box 4
Folders 94-95: Spencer family research
Folders 96-97: Spencer and Caldwell family research, Alice Rupe correspondence
Folder 98: Spencer family research in Virginia and West Virginia
Folder 99: Spencer family research in Maryland and Virginia
Folder 100: Spencer family research group sheets
Folder 101: Spencer family biographical sketches
Folder 102: Washington Spencer (son of James Spencer and Mary Cook) and descendants
Folder 103: Maximo Spencer and descendants
Folder 104-107: Spencer family research
Folder 108: Spencer family related correspondence with Ellen and Bob
Folder 109: Patsy F. Kyer and Minerva Spencer grave marker information
Folder 110: James Spencer and Spencer family research
Folder 111: Jonathan Kyer will and Peter Kier (Kyer) will, New Jersey 1797
Folder 112: Thomas Spencer senior and junior research
Folder 113: Riddle and Spencer families research
Folder 114: Corn planter and Cornstalk/Spencer family research
Folder 115-116: Spencer family research correspondence
Folder 117: Barbara Berry and Virginia Dale Correspondence research for Spencer family (Ewell and Ada Spencer’s descendants)
Cottle surname research
Folder 118: Cottle, Kyer, Morton land deed copies, 1850-1880
Folders 119-120: Cottle family related research
Morton surname research
Folder 121: Morton, Spencer, and Caldwell family related papers
Folders 122: Morton family research
Box 5
Folders 123-124: Morton family research
Folder 125: Kyer family research – correspondence, Morton and Spencer families
Folders 126-127: Kyer family research – loose papers and correspondence, Morton family
Folder 128: Kyer family research – Morton, Kyer, and Kyer surname origins
Folder 129: Morton family and Black Chapel Church research
Folder 130: Morton signer of Declaration of Independence – No known family connection to Edward Morton (1764-1851)
Folder 131: Morton family of early colonial period (connections to Edward Morton (ancestor)) – Not proven
Folder 132: Akin/Armstrong/Morton surnames and miscellaneous items
Folder 133: Kyer family research – Hannah Catherine Kyer and George W. Morton
Folder 134: Morton, Allison, Armstrong families research
Caldwell surname research
Folders 135-148: Caldwell family research
Folder 149: Caldwell family research – Census and other record copies
Folder 150: Caldwell family research information and documents
Folder 151: Caldwell family research Virginia county records
Box 6
Folder 152: Caldwell family research, Greenbrier County, West Virginia and Virginia
Folder 153: Caldwell and Tillotson family research
Folder 154: Caldwell family, 1840s and 1850s research
Folder 155: Col. John William Caldwell and relatives of Shirley family
Folder 156: Joseph Caldwell and Jane (Holiday) Caldwell research, Frederick County, Virginia
Folder 157: Oliver Caldwell and his descendants, etc.
Folder 158: Descendants of Thomas Caldwell and Delphia Ballard Caldwell
Folder 159-163: Spencer/Caldwell family research
Folder 164: Kyer family history – Caldwell and Hannah Catherine Kyer
Folder 165: Caldwell, Price, Likens, and miscellaneous family research, Alice Rupe research correspondence
Folder 166: Index to surnames and genealogy concerning the Price family
Folder 167: McClanahan family research
Folder 168: McClanahan and Caldwell family research
Mullens surname research
Folder 169: Kyer, Mullens, and Spencer family research
Folders 170-171: Mullens family research
Folders 172-173: Mullens family research – loose papers and correspondence
Folders 174-175: Mullens and Hamrick families
Miscellaneous surname research
Folder 176: Kyer family research – Fielding Hutton Kyer and Hamrick family
Folder 177: Kyer family research – Hamrick and Kyer families
Folder 178: Elias Boudinot research
Folder 179: “Clarence Ward Gillespie and Berth May Baughman: Their Ancestors by Descendants”
Folder 180: Baughman, Glassburn, and Gillespie research
Folders 181-182: Ludington family research
Box 7
Folder 183: Renick family research
Folder 184: Murrow, Marrow, Morrow family research
Folder 185: Buchanan family research
Folder 186: “Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia” vol. 1 – Kyer, etc. abstracted
Folder 187: Gibson family research
Folder 188: Kyer family research – Ohio
Folder 189: Kyer family research – Braxton County, West Virginia
Folder 190: Kyer family research – Gallia and Jackson Counties, OH
Folder 191: Kyer family research – Miscellaneous references and information
Folder 192: Kyer family research – Bryant, Clay, Callahan, Chapman
Folder 193: Miscellaneous papers – Pendleton and Nicholas County, West Virginia, Boggs family, and Kyer surname origins
Folder 194: Kyer family research – Thomas Raleigh and descendants
Folder 195: Price and Gear family research
Folder 196: Clendenin surname, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Folder 197: Miscellaneous Kyer and Hutsell family research
Folder 198: Kyer family research – Nicholas County, West Virginia and Cottles
Folder 199: Webster and Nicholas County news clippings
Folder 200: “Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania v. III and VI” and “History of Albemarle” (Virginia)
Folder 201: Breckenridge and Doak family research
Folder 202: George W. Workman Mexican War Military paper copies
Folder 203: Cottrell family research
Folder 204: Sutton, Cox, Davis, Gibson, Duffield, Donaldson family research
Folder 205: West Virginia and Virginia maps and papers
Folder 206: Miscellaneous family research, 1850 census, Nicholas County, Virginia
Folder 207: “Patchwork Quilt” genealogy information, articles from the “News Leader”
Folder 208: Randolph County, West Virginia deeds
Folder 209: 1880 census, Webster County, West Virginia
Folder 210: “James Tharp/Thorp and some of his descendants”
Folder 211: Bransford, Crawford, Henkel, and McCune information
Folder 212: Materials removed from “Nicholas County, West Virginia History, 1985”
Folder 213: Andrew Lewis of Virginia and West Virginia research
Folder 214: Knighton family research, Charleston, West Virginia
Folder 215: Webster and Nicholas County news clippings
Folder 216: Henry Dawson pension for Civil War service
Folder 217-218: Abraham Haptonstall and related research
Folder 219: Helvestine/Helphinstine family research, Fredrick County, Virginia
Subject Headings
Caldwell family.
Cottle family.
Hamrick family.
Kyer family.
Mullen family.
Morton family.
Spencer family.
Virginia – Genealogy.
West Virginia – Genealogy
