Graney-Windle Papers

These are the papers, primarily correspondence, of Catharine Graney, of Flemington and Rowlesburg, West Virginia and of Goyne Windle, who worked as a clerk for the Blaine and Potomac Coal Mining Company. While many of the letters concern the courtship and eventual marriage of Graney and Windle, there are many other interesting details. Catharine Graney's letters concern family and social life in Flemington as well as her teaching duties at a local school. Goyne Windle's correspondence describes work and social life in the coal camps, studying at Mountain Business College, and bouts of depression. Other letters from Latelle Graney, Catharine's brother, and Pleasant Howard, a girlfriend of Goyne's, add further insight into small town life in West Virginia. Fragmentary letters from other friends and relatives of Catherine and Goyne are also present.