Accession Number: Ph2025-024
Repository: West Virginia State Archives
Creator: Patricia Pollard, Ramon Hensley, John Wyatt Hensley
Title: Hensley family collection
Date [inclusive]: 1930-1970s
Extent: 1 oversized folder, 2 legal folders, 1.50 linear feet. 9 prints, 7 items
Name of Creator(s): Patricia Pollard, Ramon Hensley, John Wyatt Hensley
Language: English
Citation: [item, collection number], Hensley family collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Processing information: Meredith Barbery, May 2025
Conditions on Use and Access: none
Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.
Provenance: This collection was donated to West Virginia Archives and History at The Cultural Center by Patricia Pollard in October 2022.
Processing Notes: Certificates and large photos were moved to an oversized folder.
Sources of Information [if applicable]:
Historical Note:
Scope and Content: The Hensley family collection, circa 1920s-1950s includes photographs, tintypes, and certificates relating to the naval service and death of John Wyatt Hensley.
Related Materials [if applicable]:
Arrangement: The collection was organized by three groups: oversized, photographs, and postcards. Collection remains within the oversize folder in ArProc 3:42.
Contents
Oversize Folder 1
1:1 Hensley family photographs, 1900-1940s (5)
1. Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Bowles, "My maternal grandparents, Witcher, Kanawha County, WV. Taken about 1900. -A.J. Hensley". White house with green shutters. An elderly man stands on the porch while a woman sits in the chair. Cardboard.
2. Eunice, Lawerence, and Ramon Hensley, 1921. Three children pose together on a porch.
3. Ramon "Ray" L Hensley. Young toddler sits on chair. Tintype. 1920.
4. Lawrence Hensley. Blond toddler in a sailor outfit poses for a photo. Tintype.
5. Ramon "Ray" L Hensley naval portrait. B&W print. 1940s.
1:2 Postcards from the Hensley family, 1910-1955 (5)
1. Postcard. Views of flood crest. Ashland, KY. January 27, 1937. (2)
2. Postcard. USS Nitro, Hampton Roads, VA. "To Ramon, from Lawrence".
3. Postcard. En Provence Arles (Bouches-du-Rhone). Vue aerienne, Ensemble des Arenes. "Aerial View, arena complex". To R. L. Hensley, 1955.
4. Postcard. Chicago in 1833. 1910.
5. Postcard. Second Fort Dearborn, Built in 1816. Abandoned in 1821. Chicago. n.d.
1:3 Loose oversized Hensley materials, 1900-1940 (4)
1. Portrait. Winona May Walker-Hensley. B- May 5, 1888, D- May 2, 1926. Cardboard. Circa 1905.
2. Group photo. 23 June, 1944. Naval unit group photo, 44-347.
3. Medal of Valor certificate for John Wyatt Hensley, Chief Gunners Mate, U.S.N.
4. Memorial certificate from Franklin D Roosevelt. 1944. In memory of John Wyatt Hensley.