Towles Family Papers, 1806-1954

Held by The Filson Historical Society 

Creator:  Towles Family 

Title:  Papers, 1806-1954 

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department. 

Size of Collection:  6.33 cubic feet 

Location Number:  Mss. A T742 

Scope and Content Note 

Collection contains the papers, 1806-1849, of Judge Thomas Towles (1784-1850), attorney of Henderson, Ky. Included is correspondence of family and friends; accounts; appraisal of the estate of Colonel Joseph Cabell (1762-1831); papers of Towles and Soaper, including circular letters and prices current from English importers, 1840-1848, a letter, 1845 Aug. 11, and price current from Fellows Johnson Co., New Orleans, accounts, 1841-1848, and insurance policies on the tobacco factory near Henderson and on shipments of tobacco to New Orleans, 1840-1847. Also included are papers, 1842-1917, of Walter Alves Towles (1825-1917) containing correspondence, family history, genealogy, and his diary from a 1905 visit to New York; autobiographical sketch of Susan Daniel Anderson Towles and her genealogical correspondence about the Anderson and allied families of Marshall, Daniel, Goode, Jefferson, Roane, Wilson, and others; genealogical correspondence, genealogical society membership applications, and addresses of Susan Starling Towles (1861-1954); and the correspondence of Lillia Towles, 1892-1954, including letters to Mary Lucy Goode Towles, 1896-1915, discussing family and routine matters. 

Folder 89 of this collection has been digitized. See link in folder list below.

Folder List 

Box 1 

1 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) biographical sketch and Bible records. 

2 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) correspondence, 1806-1809. 

3 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) correspondence, 1810-1817. 

4 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) correspondence, 1822-1829. 

5 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) correspondence, 1831-1834. 

6 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) correspondence, 1835-1846. 

7 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) correspondence, n.d. 

8 Letter from Elizabeth Towles Slaughter to Frances Towles, 1817 Nov. 22. 

9 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) accounts, 1816-1819. 

10 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) accounts, 1820-1828. 

11 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) accounts, 1832-1842. 

12 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) accounts, 1844-1848. 

13 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) land papers, 1820-1831. 

14 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) miscellaneous papers, 1812-1849. 

14a Correspondence to Elizabeth Alves Towles, 1831-1847. 

 

Box 2 

15 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1840. 

16 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1841. 

17 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1842 Jan.-Apr. 

18 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1842 May-June. 

19 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1842 July-Dec. 

20 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1843. 

21 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1844 Jan.-Mar. 

22 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1844 Apr.-June. 

23 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1844 Aug.-Oct. 

24 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1844 Nov.-Dec. 

 

Box 3 

25 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1845 Jan.-Mar. 

26 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1845 Apr.-June. 

27 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1845 July-Dec. 

28 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1846 Feb.-Apr. 

29 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1846 May-June. 

30 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1846 July-Oct. 

31 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1846 Oct.-Dec. 

32 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1847 Feb.-June. 

33 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1847 July-Dec. 

34 Towles and Soaper correspondence, 1848. 

35 Towles and Soaper accounts, 1841-1848. 

36 Towles and Soaper insurance policies, 1840-1847. 

 

Box 4 

37 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) pocket memorandum book, 1806. 

38 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) fee and account book of legal cases, 1806-1809. 

39 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) memorandum book listing legal cases, 1808 Aug.- 1810 Jan., in reverse memoranda about timber, etc., 1813-1819. 

40 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) memorandum book listing legal cases, 1812-1814, with records of receipts and expenditures in the reverse, 1812-1814. 

41 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) memorandum and day book, 1818-1830. 

42 Thomas Towles(1784-1850) day book, 1833-1835. 

43 Account book.

44 Thomas J. Watson account book, 1827-1833.

 

Box 5 

45 Picture of Kenyon College and obituary record of Walter Alves Towles. 

45a Walter Alves Towles diary, 1905 June 10-Aug. 18. 

46 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1842-1890. 

47 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1895. 

48 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1896. 

49 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1897. 

50 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1898. 

51 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1899 Jan.-June. 

52 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1899 July-Dec. 

53 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1900 Jan.-Feb. 

54 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1900 Mar.-Dec. 

 

Box 6 

55 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1901. 

56 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1902. 

57 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1903. 

58 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1904. 

59 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1906-1907. 

60 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1909. 

61 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, 1910-1917. 

62 Walter Alves Towles correspondence, n.d. 

63 Walter Alves Towles agricultural reports, 1888. 

63a Walter Alves Towles estimate of earth to be excavated and cost to be apportioned to property owners of Henderson County, Ky., 1888 June 28. 

63b Group photograph of the Walter Alves Towles family. 

63c Letter to Thomas Towles from Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley, 1894 May 21. 

 

Box 7 

64 Walter Alves Towles map of the Rappahannock River showing Towles Point, 1886. 

65 Notes on the history of the Towles family by Walter Alves Towles, 1896. 

66Towlesfamily history by Walter Alves Towles, 1896. 

67Towlesfamily history by Walter Alves Towles, 1898. 

68 Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Towles of Spottsylvania, Va. By Walter Alves Towles. 

69 Notes on descendants of Thomas Towles(d. 1838) and Margaret Delaney Moore Towles by Walter Alves Towles. 

70 Notes on the genealogy of the Towles family by Walter Alves Towles. 

71TowlesFamily Book compiled by Walter Alves Towles. 

72TowlesFamily written by Walter Alves Towles. 

73 Genealogy of the Towles family from the records of Walter Alves Towles. 

74 “The Towles Family.” Typed copy of an article in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 

75 Genealogical records of the Towles family compiled by Lillia Towles. 

76 Genealogical records of the Towles family compiled by Lillia and Susan Towles. 

77 Genealogical records of the Towles family giving descendants of Therit Rankin Towles. 

78 Notes on descendants of Thomas Towles and his wife, Margaret Delaney Moore Towles. 

79Towlesof Lancaster and Spottsylvania counties, Va. 

80Thename and family of Towle. 

81 Notes on the Towles family. 

82 Copy of Henry Towles will, 1791 Sept. 25. 

83 Copy of the will of Beilby Porteous, Bishop of London, 1805 Oct. 21. 

 

Box 8 

84 Genealogy of the Towles family by Ella Poole. 

85 Genealogy of the Towles family by Ella Poole. 

86 Genealogy of the Towles family by Ella Poole. 

87 Genealogy of the Towles family by Henry I. Kirk. 

88 Statement of Francis Towles of S.C., 1905 Sept. 21. 

89 Walter Alves Towles: The Record of My Ancestry… (click to access PDF)

90 Funeral notices.

90a A genealogy of the Towles family by Walter Alves Towles. 

 

Box 9 

91 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) autobiographical sketch and portrait. 

92 List of the children of Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) with biographical note. 

93 Notes on the Anderson family.

93a Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) statement of account against her father, 1849. 

94 Notes on the Cabell family.

95 Notes on the Marshall family.

96 Notes on the Speed family.

97Miscellaneousgenealogical notes. 

98 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1883-1894. 

99 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1895. 

100 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Jan. 

101 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Feb. 

102 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Mar. 

103 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Apr. 

104 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 May. 

105 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 June. 

106 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 July. 

107 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Aug. 

108 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Sept. 

109 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Oct. 

110 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1896 Nov.-Dec. 

 

Box 10 

111 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 Jan. 

112 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 Feb. 

113 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 Mar. 

114 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 Apr. 

115 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 May-June. 

116 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 July-Aug. 

117 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1897 Sept.-Dec. 

118 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1898 Jan.-Feb. 

119 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1898 Mar.-June. 

120 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1898 July-Sept. 

121 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1898 Oct.-Dec. 

122 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1899 Jan.-Feb. 

123 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1899 Mar.-Apr. 

124 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1899 May-Oct. 

125 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, 1900-1913. 

126 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence, n.d. 

127 Susan D. Towles(1834-1906) correspondence (incomplete). 

 

Box 11 

128 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1889-1891. 

129 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1892-1899. 

130 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1900-1910. 

131 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1914-1925. 

132 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1926. 

133 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1927 Jan.-Apr. 

134 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1927 May-Dec. 

135 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1928-1929. 

136 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1930. 

137 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1931. 

138 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1932-1933. 

139 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1934-1935. 

140 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1936. 

141 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1937-1939. 

142 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1943-1949. 

143 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, 1950-1953. 

144 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) correspondence, n.d. 

 

Box 12 

145 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) educational certificate, 1879, and testimonial, 1884. 

146 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) writings. 

147 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) certificate of membership in the National Society of the DAR, 1925 Jan. 31. 

148 Susan Starling Towles (1861-1954) application for membership in the Virginia Society Colonial Dames of America, 1931 Oct. 19. 

149 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) Colonial Dames papers, 1929-1947. 

150 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) Magna Charta Dames papers, 1937-1951. 

151 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) Magna Charta Dames printed matter. 

152 Coats of arms of the Alves, Towles, and allied families; names of estates in the family. 

153 Genealogical lines of Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954). 

154 Genealogy of the Marshall family giving descendants of Therit R. Towles. 

155 Genealogy of the Hogg or Alves family. 

156 Genealogy of the Hooper family.

157 Genealogical notes.

158 Genealogical notes.

159 Susan Starling Towles(1861-1954) memoranda. 

 

Box 13 

161 Typed copy of the field notes of Thomas Allin and others of a survey of Green River, 1797 Apr. 7-May 30. 

162 Papers of Walter Alves Towles concerning land in Tenn., 1804-1821. 

163 Walter Alves Towles papers, 1819-1834 (includes copies). 

164 Audubon papers.

165 Audubon material from the Henderson County Court records. 

166 Post cards and printed matter about John J. Audubon.

167 Boone letters, etc., 1775-1782.Typed copies.

168 Letter from Robert Gilchrist to Major George Lewis, 1816 Dec. 28.

169 Richard Henderson and Co. articles of agreement, 1775 Jan. 6.Typed copy.

170 James Hogg v. the heirs of John Huske, 1798.

171 Letter for Thomas H. Jones to Montgomery Merritt, 1914 Oct. 14.The First Kentucky Infantry, C.S.A. by Montgomery Merritt. 

172 List of teachers and students at Kaloramain Louisville. 

173 A list of lands sold by the registrar of the land office in Nov. 1813.

174 Letter of Stone? 

175 Letter of Thomas Towles while a Whig candidate for the Ky. legislature, 1848 July 23. Typed copy. 

176 Correspondence of A. A. Williams and William Ingram. 

177 Questions for Church School Class on the Prayer Book of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

178 “Early legal talent of Henderson,” by Judge Malcolm Yeaman.

179 Newspaper clippings.

180 Photograph of James Hogg.

 

Box 14 

181 Correspondence to Lillia Towles, 1892-1954. 

182 Correspondence to Elizabeth Alves Towles, 1903. 

183 Correspondence to Mary Lucy Towles, 1896-1915. 

184 Thomas Towles (1865-1897) memorial card, 1897. 

185 A. J. Anderson and wife papers, 1853-1905.

186 W. A. Norwood letters to cousin, 1851.

187 Haywood Alves account book, 1823 Jan. 1-1825 Jan. 1. 

188 Article by John Towles. 

189 Miscellaneous material. 

 

Box 15 

190 Alves family material. 

191 Anderson family material. 

192 Aylett family material.

193Bennetfamily material. 

194 Beverley family material.

195 Branch family material.

196 Bullock family material.

 

Box 16 

197 Cave family material.

198 Chew family material.

199 Crawford family material.

200 Dandridge family material.

201a Daniel family material.

201b Daniel family material.

202 Goode family material.

203 Green family material.

 

Box 17 

204 Harris family material.

205 Hogg family material.

206 Jefferson family material.

207 Johnston family material.

208a Marshall family material.

208b Marshall family material.

208c Marshall family material.

208d Marshall family material.

209 Morton family material.

 

Box 18 

210 Rankin family material.

211 Roane family material.

212 Roy family material.

213 Slaughter family material.

214Soanefamily material. 

215Towlesfamily material. 

216 Wilson family material.

217Wormeleyfamily material. 

218 Miscellaneous.

Box 19 

Family portraits; wedding invitations; sketchbook; etc.