- West Virginia Estate Settlements
by Ross B. Johnston
Here you'll find an index of wills, inventories, appraisements, land
grants, and surveys up to 1850. It covers the thirteen West Virginia
counties that were formed before 1800 and references approximately 25,000
residents. The book is arranged alphabetically by the names of the principals
in the estate settlements.
- West Virginians in the American Revolution
by Ross B. Johnston
This book references all of the Revolutionary War soldiers who lived,
at one time or another, in what is now the State of West Virginia. For
each individual, you'll generally learn age, date of birth, service
record, date pension applied for and granted, place of residence, names
of family members.
- Marriage Records of Berkeley County, Virginia, 1781-1854
by Guy L. Keesecker
Berkeley County was formed from Frederick County, Virginia in 1772 and
remained a part of Virginia until the state of West Virginia was created
in 1863. Because of its location, the first great migration to the West
cut through Berkeley County (originating for the most part in Pennsylvania
and Maryland). The majority of Berkeley County's early records (including
its marriage records) can be found in the courthouse in Martinsburg,
West Virginia. The marriage records commence in 1781 and are recorded
in marriage bond books, church record books, and a miscellaneous volume
of marriage records. Here you'll find a digest of the marriage records
for the entire period from 1781 through 1854. It is arranged in alphabetical
order by the names of both brides and grooms and contains the records
of approximately 6,000 marriages. In addition to the names of the bride
and groom, you'll learn the following information about a marriage:
date(s) of the marriage bond and marriage, names of suretor, bondsmen,
and minister who performed the ceremony, and reference to the location
of the actual marriage record. In all, approximately 15,000 persons
are mentioned in this work, not counting ministers.
- Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts,
Preston County, West Virginia
by Edward T. King
This book details the early families of Grant and Pleasant Districts.
You'll find the following West Virginia families among the 7,500 individuals
referenced here: Christopher, Connor, Cunningham, King, Metheny, Ryan,
Street, Thorpe, Walls, Wheeler, and Wolf. In addition to the genealogies,
the work features separate sections on church records, Bible records,
and cemetery records.
- The Soldiery of West Virginia
by Virgil A. Lewis
This comprehensive collection of West Virginia soldiers in the Revolution
and other wars contains rosters and service records for thousands of
individuals. The rosters and rolls, collected here for the first time,
are drawn from both published and unpublished sources. Often, the original
source of the records is the Department of Archives and History of the
State of West Virginia. "The reader is struck by the extent of
the troop rosters, especially in regard to detail. All manner of tidbits
of information went into the routine rosters of participants, replete
with rank and survival data." — West Virginia History.
- Roane County, West Virginia Families
by William H. Bishop
Hundreds of pioneer families are detailed within the genealogical and
historical essays of pioneer families collected here. For the most part,
the essays are based upon interviews conducted by the author with a
surviving family member. Most of the family histories trace back to
the early nineteenth century and pertain to migrants from Virginia and
the middle states possessing British, Irish, or Scotch-Irish heritage.
- Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes
by Ruth Woods Dayton
An interesting twist on genealogy research, this book combines genealogy
and architectural history to capture the pioneer days of Lewisburg and
surrounding Greenbrier County. Each chapter details an important building
more than 100 years old at the time of the book's original publication
in 1942 and the people who either built, occupied, or were otherwise
associated with it. Nearly 100 homes, schools, taverns, and farms in
Greenbrier County are described. While the genealogical coverage of
the buildings' inhabitants varies, in most cases you'll learn: names
of the original head of household, his spouse and children, names of
subsequent owners and their families, years occupied, and details of
the residents' lives and/or careers.
- Pioneers and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha
by Ruth Woods Dayton
Kanawha County, West Virginia (formerly Virginia) was formed in 1788
from Greenbrier and Montgomery counties. Today, it is the most populated
of West Virginia counties (partly because it encompasses Charleston,
the state capital). This history of Upper Kanawha pioneers and their
homes, first published in 1947, is an exciting companion to her Greenbrier
Pioneers and Their Homes. Like the aforementioned first volume,
in this volume the author blends architectural history and genealogy
in chapters devoted to Kanawha's historic sites and the people who built,
occupied, or were otherwise connected with them. Among the topics covered
by this book are the formation of the county, its geography, and its
role in the American Revolution. There is also a bibliography and a
brief appendix listing the earliest justices, civil officials, military
officers, and trustees of Kanawha. In her history of Upper Kanawha,
the author composed a series of biographical/genealogical essays about
the following families and pioneers: Anne Bailey, Bream, Clendenin,
Cobb, Craik, Dickinson, Donnally, Hansford, John Harriman, Samuel Hensley,
Simon Kenton, Littlepage, Lovell, MacFarland, Miller, Montgomery, Morris,
Benjamin Morris, Patrick, Dr. Richard Putney, Quarrier, Rand, Rogers,
Anne Royall, Ruby, Ruffner, Shrewsbury, Levi Welch, and Col. Henry Wood.
- Capon Valley: Its Pioneers and Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940
by Maud Pugh
This is a detailed account of the early settlers of the Capon Valley
in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia). The Capon Valley
was primarily settled by the Pugh family and the majority of the work
consists of genealogical essays and Bible records detailing their lives.
- Genealogies of West Virginia Families
This is a compilation of all the family history articles that have appeared
in The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, from 1901
to 1905. This hard-to-find, short-lived periodical was a rich source
of information on some thirty pioneer West Virginia families.
- West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors
by Anne Waller Reddy
In ninety pages, this volume lists the names of approximately 2,000
West Virginians whose Public Claims are on record in manuscripts at
the Virginia State Library. Public Claims were registered for people
who performed a great variety of non-military duties during the Revolutionary
War. These included people who nursed the sick and wounded, fed the
troops, furnished supplies, buried the dead, rode express, and manufactured
firearms. This index to the Public Claims is particularly valuable,
therefore, because it contains names of patriots whose services are
recorded in no other place unless they performed military as well as
non-military service.
- Early Records, Hampshire County, Virginia
by Clara McCormick Sage and Laura Sage Jones
Hampshire County was the first county wholly in the territory that is
now West Virginia. The documents contained in this carefully compiled
work are therefore the earliest records of West Virginia. Approximately
11,000 individuals are referenced within this collection of abstracts
for: deeds, mortgages, leases, and other instruments from the 1760s
to 1800; state censuses of Hampshire County, 1782 and 1784; revolutionary
pensioners in Hampshire County, 1835; marriage bonds, 1824-28; wills
from the 1770s to the 1860s; and early estate records.
- Mason County, West Virginia Marriages, 1806-1915
by Julie Chapin Hesson with Sherman Gene Gesson and Jane J. Russell
This publication represents the most comprehensive digest of Mason County's
oldest existing marriage records. Based on a thorough examination of
the original licenses and ministers' returns, it pulls together more
than 11,000 marriage entries from 1806 to 1915. The marriage entries
are arranged alphabetically according to surname of the groom and are
followed by the name of the bride, the date of the marriage or marriage
license, and a reference to the original marriage book where the record
may be found.
- Cabell County Annals and Families
by George Selden Wallace
This book traces the Cabell County's history from its formation and
early settlement through the pivotal Civil War era to World War I and
the Great Depression. Special chapters are devoted to the county's churches,
railroads, schools, manufacturers, theaters, public utilities, etc.
With this information, you'll be able to gain an understanding of the
environment in which your Cabell County ancestors lived. You'll also
find lists of county, state, and federal officials from Cabell County,
as well as muster rolls from the War of 1812 through World War I. Among
the most significant sections of this work are the detailed sketches
of 100 prominent Cabell County families.
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