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Gordon Aronhime Papers
Southwest Virginia Card File
Collection Information
Gordon Aronhime (1911-1983) was a historian, writer, and photographer who resided in Bristol, Virginia. (Accession 32554) Aronhime's exhaustive research into the early history of Southwest Virginia focused on the upper Holston-Clinch River area during the period 1770-1795. As part of his research he attempted to verify and/or locate mills, forts, settlements, military events, place names, and Indian affairs. He wrote biographical sketches of a number of prominent area settlers. There are also sketches on revolutionary war soldiers and activities, the postal system, and Washington County tithable lists (1782-1784).
The card file which has been scanned lists all verifiable adult males in the area in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, as well as information on early East Tennessee settlers. There are more than 4,000 entries which, in most cases, indicate birth and death dates, marriage information, children, abstract of will, and other biographical information if available. Information is sometimes continued on a second card. Sources are noted. Another card file includes a partial list of those present at the Battle of King's Mountain (1780) and lists of ministers (with genealogical information).
Format of Collection
Handwritten and typed cards.
Related Resources
Gordon Aronhime Papers, 1959-1977 (LVA Accession 28947, 29410, 30154, 31997, 32554)
General arrangement is alphabetical by last name. There are more than 4,000 entries which, in most cases, indicate birth and death dates, marriage information, children, abstract of will, and other biographical information if available. Information is sometimes continued on a second card. Sources are noted.
Entries for upper Holston-Clinch River area comprise index points ABBOTT-YANCEY. Subject indexes for KINGS MOUNTAIN, MILLS, MINISTERS, FORTS, and miscellaneous NOTES are next followed by an alphabetical listing of Tennessee settlers, ABBOTT-YANCEY.
C–P (L.C.) Reel # etc. = Campbell-Preston Papers, Library of Congress.
DC = Calendar of VA and Preston Papers, Draper Collection.
KMDE = Calendar of VA and King's Mountain / Tenn Papers, Draper Collection.
Dixon Data = Correspondence with Mrs. M. R. Davis, Abingdon.
Dixon Data = Correspondence with Mrs. Dixon re Edmondson.
MRD = Papers with Mrs. M. R. Davis, 165 E. Main, Abingdon, VA. (very reliable)
HKO = Papers of the late Miss Hattie King Owens, 237 Salem St, Bristol, VA. (many mistakes)
RO = Papers of the late Miss Beveley Owens, 237 Salem St, Bristol VA.
SWVA = Summers History of Southwest Virginia. (poor)
K = The Virginia Frontier, F. B. Kegley. (good)
CH I, II, or III = Chalkley, Abstracts, plus volume No. (authentic)
Allison ESWF = Early Southwest Virginia Families by Ms. Fred Allison 1960. (poor)
Annals = Summers, L. P. "Annals of Southwest Virginia". (authentic)
WB = Will Book.
DB = Deed Book.
SEB = Surveyor's Entry Book.
WCDB = Washington County VA death book.
MB = Marriage Book. (Note: All are Washington County VA unless otherwise specifically tagged).
MG MSS = Manuscript of Miss Mary Grey, 814 Moore St. Bristol, VA.
Draper Mss = Marked according to Draper Classification.
Census = All returns are Washington County VA unless so noted.
Initials in upper right corner of cards refer to tithable county of 1782.
970.4 R449 (E. Tennessee State) Right: The American Indians in N. C.
Butterfield: History of the Girtys (IMP) (Cincinnati, 1890).
American Archives.
State Dept. Mss.
Campbell Mss (Lemuel Campbell).
History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western VA.
De Hass "Indian Wars" History of Early Settlement Bristol VA.
Withers "Border Warfare" ETSL.
Hale, John P. : Trans-Allegheny Pioneers - Bristol Public.
John Carr: Early Times in Middle Tennessee (Nashville, 1859).
Dieddridge: "Settlements and Indian Wars" ETLS.
American Pioneer, 2 vol. (Cinn., 1843).
Callim, History of KY, 2 vols.
Draper, King's Mt. - Bristol Public.
Gilmore, James R. ("The strictures[?] of T. R. are justified").
Starr, Emmit: History of the Cherokees (1921) Warden Co.: Oklahoma City.
Walker, Felix: Memoirs, reprint ed. by Clarence Griffin.
American State Paper, Indian Affairs Vol I (1816).
Dodge: Our Wild Indians.
Thwaites and Kellogg: Dunmore's War.
Lewis: Battle of Point Pleasant.
Williams: Tenn. During the Revolutionary War.
Williams: Ann Robertson (1757-1821).
Williams: W. M. Tatham (1752-1819), Wataugan.
Accessing the Card File
To access the scanned card files, click into a index point below. Entries for upper Holston-Clinch River area comprise index points ABBOTT-YANCEY. Subject indexes for KINGS MOUNTAIN, MILLS, MINISTERS, FORTS, and miscellaneous NOTES are next followed by an alphabetical listing of Tennessee settlers, ABBOTT-YANCEY.