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Louise Messick Moyer papers

3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

(1900 – 2006)

bulk 1990-2006

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier 2007.087
Creator(s) Moyer, Louise Messick
Acquisition

The Louise Messick Moyer papers were donated to the Nabb Research Center in 2007, by Louise Moyer.
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding aid written by Kenneth Forest, September 2017.
Related Materials None
Separated Materials See Nabb Center Staff
Abstract

The Louise Messick Moyer papers date from 1900-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1990-2005. The collection represents her genealogical research on multiple families, with extensive correspondence, family trees, abstracts and notes on the Messick, Long and Simmons families. The research spans Lancaster County in Virginia, Dorchester and Somerset Counties in Maryland and Sussex County, Delaware. Records also include facsimiles of 19th Century financial and marriage information, transcriptions of diaries from 1876 and 1906, a self-published memoir of a merchant sailor, and information on the menhaden fishing industry.

Biographical History

Louise Messick Moyer was born on June 3, 1914 in Irvington, Virginia, the daughter of Arthur P. and Louise Simmons Messick. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1934, and a master’s degree from the University of Delaware in 1958, and taught English, French and Latin. After a career spanning Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, she retired in 1979, from Conrad High School in Wilmington, Delaware. She was married twice, first to Warren E. Porter, who died in 2002, and then to Norman E. Moyer. A local historian and genealogist, she was the author of The Wesleyan Female College, Wilmington, Delaware 1837-1885, and was a contributor to Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol. 11. Mrs. Moyer died on August 2, 2006.

 

Arrangement Statement

The physical arrangement of the collection mirrors the intellectual arrangement of the collection.

Folders are listed by their location in each box; any given subject may be dispersed throughout the entirety of the collection.

 

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Business
    • Fishing
    • Genealogy
    • Long Family
    • Messick Family
    • Simmons Family
  • Corporate Names
    • Antioch United Methodist Church
  • Location Terms
    • Dames Quarter (Md.)
    • Irvington (Va.)
    • Somerset County (Md.)
    • Princess Anne (Md.)

Inventory List

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Series I: Louise Moyer and Messick Family Genealogy

Box 1

1.      Correspondence, Louise Moyer, 1974-2003

2.      Card, Louise Moyer, circa 1920

3.      Essay on family dog, Louise Moyer, circa 1980

4.      Obituary, Louise Moyer, 2006

5.      Genealogy, Messick family, 2002

6.      Abstracts, Messick family, undated

7.      Notes, Messick family, undated

8.      Notes from Bible of George W. Messick, undated

9.      Correspondence, Andrew S. Messick, Sr., 1939, 1950

10.  Deed, Messick family, 1944

11.  Lawsuit, Messick family, photocopy, 1976

12.  Diary transcription, Kate Cunningham Oliver, 1906, 1909

13.  Marriage records, Messick, Long, Simmons and Wroten families, photocopies, 1985-1990

Series II: Other Family Genealogies

14.  Abstracts, correspondence and ephemera, Long family, undated

15.  Notes, Long family, undated

16.  Genealogy, William and Arabella Long, 1968

17.  Abstracts and photograph, William H.C. Long, undated

18.  Genealogy, William O. Long, 1994

19.  Book, Across the Big Water on Steel Boats,  David Long, undated

20.  Abstracts and notes, Simmons family, undated

Box 2

1.   Will, Alexander Simmons, photocopy, 1853

2.   Abstracts and notes, Broughton family, undated

3.   Photograph of G.A.B. III, circa 1950

4.   Abstracts and notes, Coulbourne family, undated

5.   Abstracts and notes, Flowers family, undated

6.   Abstracts and notes, George family, undated

7.   Financial records, Bezaheeh George, photocopies, 1873-1875

8.   Abstracts and notes, Hooper family, undated

9.   DAR application worksheet, Margaret Louck, undated

10.  Genealogy, Murray family, undated

11.  Abstracts and notes, Tolley family, undated

12.  Abstracts and notes, Travers family, undated

13.  Abstracts and notes, Wroten family, undated

14.  Photographs, schoolchildren, old Irvington school, Irvington, Virginia, circa 1900

15.  Diary transcription and notes, George W. Warner, 1876-1877

16.  Notes and ephemera, Antioch Methodist Church, undated

17.  Abstract and notes, Dames Quarter Cemetery, undated

18.  Notes, Genealogy, multiple families, undated

19.  Abstracts, Genealogy, multiple families, undated

20.  Abstracts and newspaper clippings, Genealogy, multiple families, undated

Box 3

1.      Family trees, multiple families, undated

2.      Abstracts, Dorchester Genealogy Magazine, undated

3.      Abstracts and newspaper clippings, menhaden fishing, undated

4.      Newspaper clippings, Delmarva and Chesapeake Bay history, 1927-2003

5.      Magazine articles, Delmarva and Chesapeake Bay history, 1933-1995

6.      Photographs, ferry POTOMAC and postcards of liberty ship JEREMIAH O’BRIEN

7.      Abstracts and ephemera, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina history, undated

8.      Abstracts, Delaware history, undated

9.      Book, Queenstown: Early Port Town of Lancaster County, Virginia 1692, photocopy, 1980

 

 

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