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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection contains mostly of genealogy research materials relating to the Parrish, Duerson, Cleveland, Crutcher, Phelps and Arnold families and photographs of the Parrish, Duerson, Bailey and Crutcher families to name but a few. Of note are class photos from Madison Female Institute and Model Laboratory School. With the exception of the photographs from France, they are very well identified and give a good look into the lives of typical young people in Richmond in the early 1900s.
Biographical Note
Virginia N. Parrish was born in Madison County, Kentucky 8 Jan 1914 to Norval Duerson Parrish and James Gordon Parrish. She had no siblings and never married. Virginia attended Model Laboratory School and Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College where she graduated in 1935. Virginia went on to teach, first at the high school level and then as a professor of French at Marshall University where she remained until she retired.
Virginia's father, J. Gordon Parrish, was the son of Lyman Parrish and Minerva Davis Parrish. The Parrish's had one other child, a daughter named Mossie Parrish. Her mother was the daughter of John A. Duerson and Tabitha Crutcher Duerson. The other Duerson children were Annie, Alice, Lena, Jennie and Johnie, Jr.
Virginia Parrish died in Cabell County, West Virginia in 2003.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Parrish, Virginia N.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 3: Artifacts
- Box 3
- Barcode: 31234013922206
- Item 1: Painted Plate
- Painted by Issie Million
- Item 2: Painted Plate
- Painted by Issie Million
- Item 3: Painted Plate
- Painted by Issie Million
- Item 4: Painted Plate
- Painted by Issie Million.
- Item 5: Painted Plate
- Painted by Issie Million
- Item 6: Painted Plate
- Painted by Issie Million
- Item 7: Picturesque Richmond, KY
- Decorative plate showing the U.S. Government Building, Courthouse, Walters Academy, Madison Female Institute, and Main Street. Made in Germany for D.P. Armer.
- Item 8: Amos Ellison's Pocket Watch
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