David Weller Collection, Current and Planned Items


•  Background

•  David F.C. Weller Biography

•  Family History

•  Genealogy Sources

•  Weller Family Ancestry

•  European Ancestors

•  Maryland Ancestors

•  Kentucky Ancestors

•  Fowler Family

•  David F.C. Wellers Children

•  Additional References

•  Collection Contents

•  Pre-Civil War Period

•  Photograph and discussion of 1858 ladies white kid boot

•  Civil War Period (1864)

•  Soldier Letters

•  Correspondence from exiled relatives

•  Schoolgirl Letters

•  Civil War Aftermath (1865 -1869)

•  Correspondence from soldiers returning to civilian life

•  Looking for work

•  Social interest/romances

•  Reconstruction issues

•  Letters from Relatives

•  Locating missing relatives

•  Reconciling North/South sympathies

•  Correspondence discussing daily life and economic hardships

•  More Schoolgirl Letters

•  Molly's friends start families

•  David and Molly's Wedding

•  Photograph of wedding invitation, shoes, fan

•  Discussion of wedding customs of that time period

•  Family Life 1870 - 1900

•  Daily Living descriptions

•  David's Letters to Molly

•  Molly's Letters to David

•  Weller children's letters to parents/siblings

•  Lizzy Leeper Correspondence

•  Henry Newman Correspondence

•  Molly's friends and relatives

•  Helm Guard experiences

•  Southern Exposition Competitive Drill

•  Family Wedding

•  Wedding Menu and Shopping List

•  Photographs of Friends/Relatives

•  Souvenirs from trips and events

•  World War I Period

•  Letters written to Margaret Brown and Margaret Weller Brown

•  Correspondence from Hazel Lee Weller

•  New York Training Experience

•  Trip to England

•  Experience in England with American Expeditionary Force

•  Hazel's death from the Flu

•  Correspondence from WWI Soldiers - Virgil Simpson, Hobbie
•  Camp Taylor

•  Serving in England and France

•  Correspondence and Artifacts from 1920's - 30's