Cox Family Collection

Archive

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Cox Family Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC2025.014.001

Scope and Content

Items compiled by the Cox Family of Jefferson County, including: -Goldenseal Summer 1991 featuring "The Way We Were" article by Bill Theriault -Goldenseal Fall 2001 featuring "Harpers Ferry Ghost Walk" by Carl E. Feather -Goldenseal Fall 2011 featuring "harpers Ferry's Haunted Cottage" by Carl E. Feather -“A Brief History of the Jefferson County Court House” brochure prepared by Judge David Sanders (x1) -Bill for medical care of George Cox from the Charles Town General Hospital in 1970 with coverage from Standard Lime in Millville (x1) -Spirit of Jefferson newspaper clipping about the retirement of Nancy Upwright in 1996. Nancy Upwright was a nurse at “JMH.” (x1) -Playbill from the “Charm Revue” presented at the Harpers Ferry High School Auditorium on Saturday, April 19th, 1969 at 7:30 PM. (x1) -Unbranded phone book (possibly homemade) with numbers for people in Charles Town, Martinsburg, Shenandoah Junction, Grace Baptist Church, Frederick, Shepherdstown, Kearneysville, Harpers Ferry and Summit Point (x1) -Program for Louis Leon Upwright, buried at Fairview Cemetery in Harpers Ferry, WV -Program for Mamie Helen Wiltshire, buried at Fairview Cemetery in Harpers Ferry, WV -Charles Town O.E.S. Chapter No. 128 1967 program for meetings at 8:00 PM on the first and third thursdays of every month (x1) -Shepherdstown O.E.S. Chapter No. 155 1967-1968 program for meetings at 8:00 PM on the first and third wednesdays of every month (x1) -Shepherdstown O.E.S. Chapter No. 155 1968-1969 program for meetings at 8:00 PM on the first and third wednesdays of every month (x1) Postcard (x1) “The Shenandoah Gap, looking east from Bolivar, W. Va.” Cancellation reads Bolivar Oct. 16 3 PM 1950, addressed to Mrs. George Cox Kearneysville, West Va. -Copy of letter sent from P.F.C. Leon R. Upright (ASN. 35070822) Co. A. 68th Signal B (cut off) A.P.O. 75 c/o P.M. San Francisco CALIF. To Mrs. George Cox Kearneysville West Virginia (x1) -Condolence letter written from Bolivar, W.VA, Sat. a.m. July 11, 1936 (x1)

Acquisition

Accession

2025.014

Source or Donor

Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission

Acquisition Method

Transfer