The Virginia Waddell family references preserved by William Henry Foote center upon Rev. James Waddell, D.D., the celebrated Presbyterian teacher and orator remembered as the Blind Preacher of Virginia. His ministry connected the Northern Neck with the Shenandoah Valley and central Virginia, while the marriages of his daughters linked the family with the Presbyterian ministers Archibald Alexander and William Calhoon.
The Greenlee family was among the earliest pioneer families of the Timber Ridge settlement in present-day Rockbridge County, Virginia. James Greenlee and his wife, Mary M’Dowell, arrived with the M’Dowell family in 1737 and established themselves within the new settlement near the headwaters of the James River. Through Mary, the Greenlees were closely connected with one of the most prominent families in the early history of Rockbridge County.
Members of the Lyle family were prominent in the early Scotch-Irish Presbyterian communities of western and central Virginia. The family first appears in the surviving account at Timber Ridge in present-day Rockbridge County, where Daniel, John, and Samuel Lyle supported the congregation served by Rev. John Brown. Later generations and branches were associated with the South Branch of the Potomac in Hampshire County, the Buffalo and Briery congregations in Prince Edward County, Bedford County, and Kentucky.
The Campbell family of Holston was one of the most prominent Whig families of Virginia’s southwestern frontier during the Revolutionary era. Descended from a Scottish family that had settled in Ireland, the Virginia Campbells established themselves first in Augusta County and later near the headwaters of the Holston River. Their descendants included soldiers of the Revolution, county officers, judges, and governors in Virginia and Tennessee.
The Alexander family traced its origins to Scotland and later Ulster before several members emigrated to America in the eighteenth century. Archibald Alexander, born in Ireland in 1708, came first to Pennsylvania and then settled on the South River in Virginia about 1747. His descendants became closely associated with Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County government, Washington College, the Presbyterian Church, and several prominent educational institutions.
The Preston family was among the early Scotch-Irish families associated with the settlement of the central Shenandoah Valley. John Preston, a shipmaster from Dublin, Ireland, came to Virginia with Colonel James Patton and lived for a time at Spring Hill before establishing a home near Staunton. Through his children and grandchildren, the family became connected with the Breckenridge, Brown, McDowell, Smith, and Howard families and produced descendants prominent in religion, law, politics, and western migration.
The McDowell family was among the early settlers of the Timber Ridge area of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Ephraim McDowell arrived with his family in 1737, accompanied by his sons James and John and his daughter Mary, wife of James Greenlee. Through the next several generations, the family became associated with frontier settlement, land surveying, military service, county government, and several prominent Virginia families.
FREE! Download or read online 45 school yearbooks from schools primarily in Augusta County, Virginia. The schools and range of years (all years not available) include: Bufffalo Gap High School (1970-1977); Churchville High School (1928-1959); Craigsville High School (1949-1956); Fishersville High School (1944); Mary Baldwin College (1958); Middle River High School (1962); Millboro High School (1953-1959); Mount Sidney High School (1930-1939); Robert E. Lee High School (1934); Spottswood High School (1951-1960); Stuarts Draft High School (1971-1977); Wilson Memorial High School (1950-1975).
The schools and range of years (all years not available) include: Augusta Military Academy (1917-1968), Beverley Manor High School (1944-1945), Buffalo Gap High School (1964-1975), Central Augusta High School (1962-1964), Craigsville High School (1959-1961), Mount Sidney High School (1930), North River High School (1959), Riverheads High School (1963-1965), Robert E. Lee High School (1926-1976), Virginia Female Institute (1902-1903), and Wesleyan Female Institute (1879).
FREE! Download or read online 177 school yearbooks from schools primarily in Alleghany and Bath counties, as well as the independent cities of Covington and Millington, Virginia. The schools and range of years (all years not available) include: Alleghany High School (1964-1975); Bath County High School (1971-1974); Buchanan High School (1958); Buffalo Gap High School (1964-1967); Central High School (1956-1959); Chesapeake & Ohio Hospital School of Nursing (1950-1971); Clifton Forge High School (1921-1976); Covington High School (1924-1977); Dunlap High School (1948-1963); Eagle Rock High School (1956); Goshen High School (1958-1966); Highland County Public Schools (1961-1976); James River High School (1969); Jefferson High School (1954-1955); Jefferson School of Nursing (1965); Lynchburg General Hospital School of Nursing (1962-1967); Martinsville High School (1951-1956); Millboro High School (1957-1968); Natural Bridge High School (1948); New Castle High School (1949); State Teachers College – Farmville (1930-1944); State Teachers College – Harrisonburg (1930-1933); Valley High School (1956-1969); Vinton High School (1929); Watson High School (1953-1963).