| Scope and content |
Land and tax records of Albemarle and Louisa counties, Va., cover the years 1834 to 1932. Included from Albemarle County are a plat and tax billings. The Louisa County land records mainly pertain to Carpenter family deeds but also included is a ten-year lease for farmland. Albemarle County legal documents include records of the settlement of Nicholas Hamner's estate with a listing of the division of household goods and a deed, a 1906 promissory note with record of payment, and Sallie Maddox Gay's handwritten will. Family correspondence mentions a change in the Sunday church meeting and the pastor's visit and attitude; their flower garden; and chicken and turkey breeding. Births, deaths, and marriages of the Carpenter family (1820-1906) and the Hamner family (1778-1926) are listed, and Charles Wingfield and Nancy (Hamner) Gay family Bible record pages (1821-1894) are also included. Recollections of Samuel Rufus Gay of Lynchburg, Va., link the Gay and Carpenter families to the family of Revolutionary War soldier Edward Garland and present an interesting vignette of family life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Albemarle County region. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Carpenter-Gay-Hamner Family Papers (#490), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mrs. Martha G. Elmore. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Loaned by Mrs. Martha G. Elmore. |
| Biographical note | In 1884, William Carey Carpenter (1852-1927), of Louisa County, Va., married Nannie Alberta Gay (1865-1937), daughter of Charles Wingfield and Nancy (Hamner) Gay, of Albemarle County, Va. These papers chronicle events in their lives and those of their families. |
