Stitt, Winnie Collection
Name: The Winnie Stitt Collection MG-061
Material: Various papers, holiday cards, deeds, certificates, newspapers, and books varying from yearbooks to teaching books for reading, coloring, and handwriting.
Volume: 7 document boxes and 1 flat box
Donation: Winnie Stitt L2002.014
Usage: There are no usage restrictions on these materials
Abstract
The Winnie Stitt Collection contains papers and other personal items collected throughout the years and donated by Katherine Winifred (Winnie) Stitt, daughter of Mary and Roy Burkholder, her collection shows the lineage of her family as well as the way they lived within Cumberland County with dates varying in between 1858 and 1992.
Historical Note
The Stitt family started with the marriage between Roy Burkholder and Mary Rickabaugh on June 7, 1911. Their daughters Laura and Katherine Winnifred (Winnie) Burkholder, the latter of which would go on to marry Paul Stitt on August 28, 1943, officially starting the Stitt family as known in this collection. The family was settled in Mt. Holly Springs, Carlisle, and Newville, Pennsylvania. Donated by Winnie Stitt, it follows her collection of family papers and items ranging from 1858 to 1992, with most of the material focused within the mid-1900s. This collection holds items from historical moments, such as certificates and papers in context of World War II and the Vietnam war, a confederate ten-dollar bill, and multiple certificates and honorable discharge papers from the civil war in relation to a man in the Burkholder family line.
Collection Description
The Winnie Stitt Collection features various legal, personal, and military papers, certificates given from the Air Force to Mary and Winnie Burkholder, and those for perfect attendance to William Stitt, among others. There are two ledgers that hold genealogies for the Stitt family as well as specific families in relation to the Burkholder’s. Two folders hold cards given for holidays, as well as personal letters to varying people. Personal items such as girl scout cards and a wallet as well as Avon membership cards and Free Masonry papers are contained in the collection. Childhood books vary from tracing books to handwriting and reading books, as well as 2 yearbooks, one from Shippensburg State Teachers College, and the other from the Zembo Temple. It is contained in 7 document boxes and 1 flat box, with the contents totaling 39 folders. The boxes go in chronological order from the locations of which the family lived, to the start of the family to the end as was given to us, with the intent of focusing on specific people or families at a time within a box.