East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, TN 37614-0138
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Title: |
The Quentin M. Alexander Collection |
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Collection Number: |
Accession Number 453 |
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Physical Description: |
2 folders |
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Creator: |
Quentin M. Alexander |
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Repository: |
Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University |
Provenance: The Quentin M. Alexander Collection was donated to the Archives of Appalachia on July 13, 1994, by Quentin M. Alexander, Danville, California.
Access: The collection is open fro research.
Processing Information: Ed Speer completed processing, and the collection was opened to researchers in March 1997.
Quentin Marsden Alexander (b. 1934) is a native of Hamilton County, Tennessee, and a genealogical researcher residing in Danville, California.
The Quentin M. Alexander Collection consists of photocopies of lineage charts, family group records, census extracts, research notes, and pages from published genealogical reference works. The collection documents several generations of the Shipley, Simerly (Zimmerle), and Alexander families in Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. With the exception of one photocopy, dated 1992, all the photocopies are undated.
Organization: The collection is arranged alphabetically by family name in a single series.
Important subjects of the collection are:
Alexander family
Shipley family
Simerly family
1. Shipley and Alexander families (undated and 1992)
2. Simerly family (undated)
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