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Title
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Finding Aid for the Eldridge Family Collection
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Type
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Collection
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Date
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c. 1920-2000
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Description
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This collection contains photographs, personal effects, correspondence, and family history information on Price Levi Eldridge, Sr., Virginia Eldridge, and Price Levi Eldridge, Jr. as well as various Eldridge family members. The photographs cover Price Sr., his siblings, his parents, and other relatives. Price Sr.’s personal effects include club membership cards, identification cards, work badges, and more. Included in the family history are printed accounts of Eldridge history and Virginia Eldridge’s death certificate.
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Language
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English
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Place
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Kansas City (Kan.)
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Publisher
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Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri
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Extent
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3 folders
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Identifier
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MGC 2034
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Eldridge Family collection
Collection Summary
Title
Eldridge Family collection
Date
1920s-2000s
Extent
3 file folders
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 2034-EFC
Processed by: Jolene Clark, 2015; Finding Aid created by Nicole Schlagel, 2016
Name of Creator
Price Levi Eldridge, Sr. and family
Biographical History
Price Levi Eldridge, Sr. was born on May 27, 1904 in Missouri. He married Virginia Jones. Together they
had one son, Price Levi Eldridge, Jr. The Eldridge family lived in Kansas City, Kansas where Price Sr.
worked as a laborer and Virginia worked for the Simmons Mattress Company. Price Sr. died in March
1972 and Virginia died on November 2, 2005. Virginia was buried in Kansas City, Kansas.
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs, personal effects, correspondence, and family history information
on Price Levi Eldridge, Sr., Virginia Eldridge, and Price Levi Eldridge, Jr. as well as various Eldridge family
members. The photographs cover Price Sr., his siblings, his parents, and other relatives. Price Sr.’s
personal effects include club membership cards, identification cards, work badges, and more. Included
in the family history are printed accounts of Eldridge history and Virginia Eldridge’s death certificate.
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Eldridge Family collection
Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 3 series.
Series 1, Family History information
Series 2, Personal papers and effects
Series 3, Photographs
Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Records within this collection are housed within file folders
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Year: 1930; Census Place: Meridian, Lauderdale, Mississippi;
Roll: 1153; Page: 14B; Enumeration District:0010; Image: 438.0; FHL microfilm: 2340888
Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2011.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Number: 486-07-1854; Issue State: Missouri; Issue
Date: Before 1951
"Obits," Kansas City Star, The (MO), November 04, 2005: B4, accessed September 27, 2016,
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/obit/10E315D3F9A9B80010E315D3F9A9B800?p=OBIT.
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