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Corder and Croswhite Family Papers
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Corder Family, Croswhite Family, Thomas Family, Perry Family, George W. Hall
Dates: 1846-1948
Identification: MGC1257
Extent: 2.16 linear feet (4 boxes)
Language: Materials in the collection are in English.
Repository: Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Missouri
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials related to the Corder, Croswhite, Thomas, and Hall
Families. This includes correspondences from many different members of the Corder
and Croswhite families, as well as records related to their careers and religious
affiliations. This includes record books for Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church in Lexington,
Missouri, and Waverly Presbyterian Church in Waverly, Missouri. Much of the collection
contains personal correspondences and courtship letters, as well as a few ambrotype
and tintype/ferrotype portrait photographs. The collection also contains documents
from the Wabash Railway Company, the Waverly Coal Company, and George W. Hall’s
steamboat shipping records from 1860s Waverly, Missouri. The collection also contains
numerous legal documents, deeds, and abstract of title records.

Restrictions
Access: This collection is open for research.
Conditions governing reproduction and use: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce
must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.

Administrative Information
Immediate source of acquisition: This collection was donated to the West Valley
Genealogical Society by Carroll Haverkamp, 2024; transferred to the Midwest Genealogy
Center, 2024.

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Citation: The Corder and Croswhite Family Papers (MGC1257), Midwest Genealogy
Center, Independence, Missouri
Processing Information: This collection was processed by John Mason, 2025.

Container List
Series 1: Family Correspondence
Box 1
Thomas Family Correspondence, c. 1940s
Rebekah Perry Correspondence
John E. Corder Correspondences, 1879-1887
John E. Corder and Rebekah H. Corder Correspondence, 1882
John E. Corder and Frank Corder Correspondence, 1911
Rebekah H. Corder, Niece Luella, and Cousin L.C. Meyers Correspondence, 18891895
Rebekah and Katie Corder Correspondence, 1884-1887
Rebekah and Frank Corder Correspondence
Rebekah Croswhite and Grandmother Corder Correspondence
Kate E. Corder, Leslie Corder, and Frank Corder Correspondence, 1884-1890
Kittie Corder Croswhite Correspondence
J.H. Croswhite, Misc. Correspondence
J.H. Croswhite and Kittie Corder Correspondence, 1898-1899 (two folders)

Series 2: Legal Documents, Deeds, and Abstracts
Box 1
Thomas Family Deeds and Circuit Court, 1860-1866
Box 2
William Uphaus Estate
Circuit Court Proceedings: Jesse Uphaus vs. Pinke Uphaus

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Misc. Deeds
Waverly, Missouri Deeds
Pate Place Deeds
Abstract of Title Records [3 folders]
Box 3
Abstract of Title Records [3 documents]

Series 3: Journals
Box 3
Betty Katherine Thomas Diary, 1930
L.W. Corder Railroad Diary, 1926-1930
Monthly Journals, 1930
George W. Hall Banking Book, 1897
Rabenstein & Harris Notebook

Series 4: Church Records
Box 1
Waverly Presbyterian Church [2 folders]
Box 3
Records of Mt. Hope Church, Lexington, Missouri, 1846-1857
Minutes of Waverly Presbyterian Church, 1899
Waverly Presbyterian Church record Book, 1850-1948
Series 5: Wabash Railroad Company
Box 3
Elliot Frog and Switch Co., Catalogs
Box 4
Wabash Railway Company, A.F.E. Data from Div. Accounts

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Wabash Railway Company, 1927-1929
Wabash Railway Company Blueprints, 1928

Series 6: Photographs
Tintype/Ferrotype of Lizzie Wilson
Ambrotype of Rebekah Herton
Ambrotype of Kate Corder
Unidentified Tintype/Ferrotype of Three People
Series 7: Steamboat Shipping Records
Box 3
George W. Hall Storage, Forwarding, and Commission Merchant, Waverly,
Missouri Steamboat Shipping Records
Series 8: Misc
Box 1
Poetry – “The Martyred Mother”
Box 3
Waverly Coal Company, 1898-1899
Rebekah Croswhite
Misc.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Pocket Gospel of St. John

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