Lucas Family Collection

Archive

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Lucas Family Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC104

Scope and Content

The collection deals primarily with the genealogy of the Lucas family, mostly researched and written by Mary Lillian Hayes Fisher (1877-1952). Unlike the rest of the collection, one folder (Folder 1) contains six original early 19th century documents. Five are letters dating from 1810 to 1826. Three letters (LF2,3,4) dated May, June, and July, 1813, are from Edward Lucas to his wife Mary Lucas, written from three different camps while he was a soldier in the War of 1812. An 1810 letter (LF1) is a communication among members of the Clinkenbeard (also Clinkinbeard) family. The final letter (LF6), written in 1826 by Lucas Clinkinbeard, is two letters: one to Lewis Lucas (cousin) and one to Edward and Mary Lucas (uncle and aunt). The sixth document in Folder 1 is a list of names and birth dates (1802-1836) of 10 people with the surname Branson. Two of the 10 may be identified to an African American family. (Scans of these six documents are in images.) Genealogical materials: Folder 2: Edward Lucas veteran records and bounty land claim (LF7,8); Robert Lucas, incomplete oath, War of 1812 (See image LF9) Folder 3: Transcriptions by Mrs. Rion Lucas (Cora May Osbourn Lucas) of letters (LF10-15) Folder 4: Mrs. Rion Lucas (Cora May Osbourn Lucas) correspondence - 1938-1952 (LF16-LF30) Folder 5: Mrs. Rion Lucas (Cora May Osbourn Lucas) funeral arrangements (LF31) Folder 6: Lineage Society certificates issued to Elizabeth Shepherd Lucas Sheetz, Little, Trussell (LF32-34) Folder 7: Photographs (36 and one postcard) (LF35-36) Folder 8: Newspapers (12) (LF37-1-12) Folder 9: Helen Patterson Booth on Lucas genealogy (LF38) Folder 10: Helen Lucas Wallace's ancestry charts for Elizabeth Lucas Swan (LF39-40) Folder 11: Family group sheets of Lucas and many associated families (LF41-43) Folder 12: Lucas genealogy family group sheets, Bible typescript and one page copy, and genealogy with pedigree chart (LF44-47) Folder 13: Lucas genealogical material: death certificates, image of Robert Lucas, history of his Iowa home, outline and drawing of Lucas Graveyard at Elmwood, and a copy of WV Antiquities Commission Annual Report (1973), article on Lucases of Jefferson County, and document from which article was written (LF48-57) Folder 14: Lucas genealogical material: letters, family group sheets, obituary, transcriptions, history of early homestead, welcome guide (LF58-76) Folder 15: Lucas genealogy (handwritten and typewritten, numbered pages, in Lillian Hayes Fisher's handwriting) (LF77) Folder 16: Lucas genealogy (typescript of the handwritten manuscript by Lillian Hayes Fisher) (LF78) Folder 17: Lucas genealogy by Lillian Hayes Fisher, pp 1-62 (removed from black notebook, filed separately) (LF79) Folder 18: Lucas genealogy by Lillian Hayes Fisher, pp 63-135 (removed from black notebook, filed separately) (LF80) Folder 19: Two envelopes: one addressed to Mrs. Henry M. Little and one to Mrs. Elizabeth Little (LF81) Black 2-ring binder that contained Lillian Hayes Fisher's genealogy of the Lucas family; pasted inside cover is photocopy of painting of Robert Lucas, Governor of Ohio (LF82)

Acquisition

Accession

290

Source or Donor

Hagan, Lillian B.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1812 - 1985

Archive Size/Extent

19 folders

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1812-1985 Associated Material: Elizabeth Lucas Sheetz Little Trussell Collection, 1001 THL, in Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA.