Box 2

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The E. A. Williams Papers (1749-1969) include personal and business papers (letters, financial records, legal agreements), documents, genealogical material, photographs, and other papers of the Williams family of Mecklenburg County, Virginia.Most of the papers are those of Captain Edwin Anderson Williams, and relate to his activities as a lawyer, bank trustee, treasurer of the Roanoke Valley Railroad, tax collector, tobacco grower, and Confederate Army officer. His papers date from...