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1866 Labor Contracts for Freedmen
These images are copies of original labor contracts from Louisa County after the Civil War. Notice the stamps on each document showing it was approved by the Freedmen's Bureau office at Louisa Courthouse.
Contracts are between Henry Taylor and the…
Contracts are between Henry Taylor and the…
Tags: Reconstruction
The Scottish Suffragettes - Christian Guild
In 1904, at the age of 43 and with her husband and seven children, Christian Guild left her homeland of Scotland to immigrate to the United States. When she reached Dabneys, Louisa County, Virginia, she became actively involved in an attempt to start…
Tags: League of Women Voters, Louisa County, Suffrage, voting, Women
Members of the Equal Suffrage League
Dates in parentheses refer to the day the membership card was signed. All other words in brackets refer to anything written on the front or back of the card.
Names of the enrollees:
Neal. A. Hasher and Mrs. N. A. (Minnie) Hasher of Trevilians,…
Names of the enrollees:
Neal. A. Hasher and Mrs. N. A. (Minnie) Hasher of Trevilians,…
Tags: Equal Suffrage League, Louisa County, Suffrage, voting, Women
Leon Luxford Loyall
Leon Luxford Loyall, from Willowbrook, Louisa County, Virginia, is one of many individuals to join the Equal Suffrage League. He was born on November 1, 1876 and is noted as being a teacher at the time he registered to vote in 1902. He married Ada…
Tags: Equal Suffrage League, Louisa County, Suffrage, voting, Women
Lucille Holt
Lucille Holt, born in 1883, became an influential woman in early twentieth century Louisa County. Born with a light skin tone, she was sometimes seen as a white woman and other times as a black woman. In 1916, Lucille Holt was appointed the first…
The Anna T. Jeanes Fund
Anna T. Jeanes, born in 1822 in Quaker Pennsylvania, became the sole inheritor of her family fortune. Her Christian faith led her to establish The Friends Boarding House, a home for the ill and elderly. Two years before her death in 1907, Jeanes…
Zelda Carter Fletcher Morton
Zelda Carter Fletcher Morton was born on June 6, 1874 on Sylvania in Green Springs. Her parents, Andrew and Sarah Carter, were married while enslaved and their marriage was recorded by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1866 in the Cohabitation Lists.…
The five daughters of Henry Taylor
Likely the five daughters of Henry Taylor II of Westmoreland County, who married Mary Minor Watson Taylor of Westend. They lived at Montrose for several years before moving out to Westend, where they raised nine children. The five daughters are…
Tags: Women
Virginia Syndor on Race Horse
Virginia (Taylor) Syndor, a niece of Lucy Taylor's, is shown here racing horses in her late 20s or early 30s. She writes of spending her childhood days at Westend Farm with her Aunt Lucy, who was like a "second mother" to her. She also remembers…
Tags: Women
Women in carriage at Westend
Women in a carriage, likely Virginia Taylor (to be Mrs. W.B. Syndor) and a friend, up to visit their aunts Nancy and Lucy Taylor, who had a life interest in Westend. Virginia's father, Henry Taylor III, was a brother of the Nancy and Lucy and had…
Tags: Women
Lucy Taylor's last picture at Westend
Lucy Taylor, the only remaining unmarried daughter who inherited a life interest in Westend, is pictured here as an octogenarian in September of 1955. She is seated in the middle, fixing her headband. She ran Westend with the help of her sister,…
Tags: Women
Adam Toler's Ledger Book (1782-1790)
Adam Toler, born in 1766, took detailed notes in a ledger book throughout his education. In a linen-covered notebook, there are comments regarding measurements in many different subjects, including time, the division of money and crops, simple…
Tags: Mineral