Book Review: "Botetourt County Virginia Marriages 1770-1853" with Last Name Index A-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Botetourt County Virginia Marriages 1770-1853. Entries show both bride and groom's names, marriage bond or license date and sometimes witnesses, consents and other items of interest. This is a soft cover reprint by New Papyrus Co. of a 1987 original, contains two volumes for a total of 600 pages plus figures, appendices & fold-out map. Botetourt was formed from the southern portion of Augusta County and was the parent count for a total of 44 new counties, including much of the West Virginia area. This book contains a total of 5,211 marriage records including bonds, licenses and/or minister's returns.

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Botetourt County Marriages, 1770-1853 (Virginia Historic Marriage Register Series) 2-Volume set

Here are two sample entries from the book:

• "HOUTZ Henry & Susanna Brown 4 Feb 1824; b - George Brown, father min - N H Cobbs (Prot. Epis.)"
• "HOUPT George A. & Susanna Wingard 5 Mar 1851; license only"

The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbot Abbott Abel Abersole Able Abshire Acains Acher Acton Adams Adkins Adney Agnue Aikin Aimix Airs Akin Akins Albright Alderson Alen Alexander Alford Alfred Allen Allison Alphin Alsup Alverson Amen Amens Ammen Amon Amyx Anderson Andrew Andrews Angel Angell Angle Anthony Arbuckle Archery Archey Armentrout Armontrout Arms Armstrong Armstrong Arnett Arnold Arrett Arrington Arter Arther Arthur Asbery Aschenbury Ashafelter Ashafetter Ashford Ashley Aston Atchley Atherton Atwood Augerman Augleman Auld Aunspaugh Austin Awl Ayres Baber Back Backens Backinsto Backus Baggs Bags Bailey Bailor Bails Bair Baird Baker Baldock Baldwin Ballard Baller Ballew Baltimore Banday Bandy Banister Banks Bannister Barber Barcly Bare Barger Barham Barker Barnard Barnes Barnett Barnett Barnhart Barns Barrett Barrit Bartlett Bartley Barton Basham Batey Baugh Baughann Baughman Bawler Basley Baxter Bayne Beagles Beale Beals Beamish Bean Beane Bear Beard Beath Beatty Beaubeau Beaver Becker Beckett Beckner Beech Beeher Been Beesaker Beice Belch Belew Belinger Bell Bellamy Bellew Belt Bennet Bennett Benny Benson Bentley Bernerd Berry Bess Betts Beverley Beverly Bibro Bice Bickelshimer Bickers Bickle Bierley Biggs Bigler Bilbre Bilbro Billhymer Bilups Bird Bise Bish Bishop Bittle Black Blackaby Blackeley Blackerby Blackwell Blain Blaker Bland Blane Blankenship Blaze Bless Blessing Blevens Blevins Blount Blunt Board Bobletts Bockman Bodkin Boehan Bogan Boggess Boggs Bolin Bolinger Bolton Boly Bomgardner Bomgarner Bond Bondurant Bonner Bosack Book Booker Boone Boons Boose Booth Booze Borden Boring Borndrager Bosserman Bossford Bosters Boswell Bott Botton Bough Boughen Boughman Boulton Bow Bowen Bower Bowers Bowlin Bowlinger Bowyer Boyd Boyer Boyers Boyl Boyle Brace Brackenridge Brad Bradford Bradley Bradly Brads Bradshaw Brady Brafford Bragg Bratcher Bratton Brawley Breadwell Breckenridge Breedan Breedlove Brewbaker Brewster Brian Brians Briant Brickey Brickman Bridewell Bridgeland Bridger Bridges Bridgewater Briggs Bright Brim Brines Brinkley Brinman Briot Brit Brits Britt Britts Britz Broadwater Brogan Bromfield Bronaman Bronamer Bronomar Bronomer Broockman Brookman Brooks Brothers Brough Broughman Brown Brownlee Broy Broyles Brubaker Brubecker Brugh Brughman Brumfield Brumer Brunamer Brunamon Brunmer Brunk Brunnamer Brush Bryan Bryans Bryant Buchanan Buck Buckey Buckhanan Buckhannan Buckhannon Buckingham Buford Buglar Bugler Buhrman Bumgardner Bumgarner Bundain Bunger Buram Burch Burger Burgess Burgh Burk Burke Burket Burkett Burkholder Burks Burndraker Burne Burnett Burns Burwell Buser Bush Busey Bussy Buster Butcher Butler Butt Buttry Butts Byerley Byerly Byers Byrd Cade Cahoon Cain Cairfman Calbreath Calbreth Caldwell Cale Calender Caler Calhoon Calhoun Callaghan Callaghen Callander Callender Callis Calvert Calwell Camden Cammell Campbell Camper Camron Canode Car Carden Cares Carfman Carleton Carlisle Carlton Carn Carnes Carney Carns Carpenter Carper Carral Carrel Carrell Carroll Carroll Carsner Carson Carter Cartin Cartmill Caruthers Carven Carvin Casey Cash Cashman Casteel Castile Carlett Caton Cauldwell Caves Cawthon Cents Centz Cesler Cesslar Cessler Chambers Champ Chapman Chappel Chatting Cheek Chenoweth Chenowith Cherry Childress Chinowith Chinwith Chittum Chitwood Chivers Chrisman Christian Cifford Circle Claiborn Claiborne Claige Clair Clancey Clancy Clapsaddle Clare Clark Clarke Class Claughton Claxton Cleage Clear Clegg Clemens Clemmons Clency Clerkin Click Clifton Cline Clinebell Clinmebell Close Cloyd Cluck Clure Cluskey Coalter Coans Coap Cofer Coffee Coffman Cohar Coin Coiner Cole Coleman Coley Collins Colter Colters Combs Commins Compton Comstock Cornnell Conner Consalver Consolver Cook Coon Cooney Cooper Cop Copland Copp Coppinger Corfman Cornelius Cornell Correll Cosby Coulter Cousins Cowdon Cowen Cowper Cox Crabb Craddock Cradoch Crafford Craft Craig Crater Crawford Crebbin Cressee Cressoe Crider Crill Crisser Crist Crites Critz Crockett Croddy Crodian Crofford Croft Croser Cross Crouch Crouder Croul Crouse Crow Crowder Crowe Crowel Crowell Crowl Crows Crump Crumpacker Crumpecker Crush Crutchfield Cruz Culbertson Culhoon Culnan Cumerford Cummerford Cumming Cummings Cummons Cumpton Cundiff Cunliffe Cunningham Cupps Cups Curd Curtis Curtnir Custard Custer Custerd Dabney Dade Dagger Dalton Dame Damewood Damood Damrel Damron Danavan Daniel Dansanti Darby Dare Darr Daugherty Davidson Davis Davison Dawny Dawson Day Daylong Deacon Deacons Deadorf Deads Deal Dean Deardorf Deaton Deckinson Decks Deeds Deel Deele Denn Defoe Dehart Deisher Dejarnatt Delbridge Delong Delridge Delzel Delzell Dempsey Denby Dennis Denny Dent Denton Depew Dermon Derrick Devanny Devise Dewese Dewhit Deyerle Dickeson Dickey Dickinson Dickson Dicky Diet Digges Dill Dillard Dillen Dillman Dillon Dilman Dingledine Dirgan Disher Dishman Dixon Dixton Dobb Doble Dodd Dodge Dogan Doherty Dollard Dollman Dolman Dolmon Donaghe Donaho Dooley Doosing Doss Dougherty Douglas Douglass Douthat Dow Dowdy Dowens Downer Downey Drais Drake Draper Dresler Drummand Drummond Drumons Duckwyler Duddin Dudding Dudgin Dudley Duff Dugan Duke Dulaney Dulany Dunathan Dunbar Duncan Dunlop Dunn Dunnavant Dunovan Durham Durman Duval Duvall Dwier Dwyer Dyarnatt Dyerle Dyerly Dykes Dysher Eads Eagan Eager Eagle Eagleson Eaken Eakes Eakin Eakins Earhart Early Eason Eavans Eby Echolds Eckhols Eckis Edde Eddington Eddis Eddy Edengton Edens Edgar Edgars Edington Edmiston Edmondson Edwards Elam Elder Eldrick Eller Elliott Ellison Ellmore Elmore Elsroad Elsrode Eltzroth Elutherreth Emmans Emmons Emrick Ender Enders Engard Engart Engle Englehart Engles English Entsminger Entzminger Epard Eperson Eply Eppard Erwin Esridge Estes Etsler Etter Etzlar Etzler Eubank Eubanks Eurich Evans Evens Eversole Evilsizer Evins Ewing Eybank Fag Fagg Fairfax Falls Fanning Faris Fariss Farley Farmer Farrar Farrer Farrier Farris Farrow Farver Fascher Fasler Faught Faulconer Fauster Feather Feazel Feller Fellers Fellow Fellows Felps Fender Ferguson Ferner Ferral Ferrel Ferrell Ferrer Ferrier Ferrill Ferris Fesler Fessler Field Fields Fife Fifter Figgat Figgett Filson Finch Findlay Fink Finney Firebaugh Firestone Fishburn Fisher Fisk Fitsguarald Fizer Flack Flaherty Flanagan Flannigan Fleager Flecher Fleek Fleet Fleming Fleshart Fleshman Fletcher Flick Flint Flippo Flook Flora Florah Flower Floyd Fluke Flurnoy Fogg Fogle Folder Forbes Forbush Ford Fore Forest Forgeson Forguson Forrest Forrester Forstor Forsyth Foster Fought Fout Fouts Foutt Foutz Fowler Fox Frame France Frances Francis Francisco Frankenbarger Franklin Frantz Frazel Frazer Frazier Frederick Freeman French Fringer Fry Fudge Fulhart Fullen Fullheart Fulton Fultz Fulwiler Fuqua Furgurson Furguson Furrow Fury Gaines Galbreath Gallaway Galloway Gamble Gammon Ganby Gant Gantsley Gardner Garges Garman Garnand Garner Garnes Garret Garretson Garrett Garrison Garrot Garst Garwood Gass Gast Gates Gatewood Gaudry Gaunt Gawltney Gay Gellespy George German Ghant Gharst Gholson Gholston Gholtman Gibson Gilbert Gilkerson Gilkinson Gill Gillaland Gillaspey Gillaspie Gillaspy Gilleland Gillespey Gillespie Gillespy Gilliam Gilliland Gillispie Gillispy Gilmer Gilmore Gils Girtner Gish Given Givens Givins Glasburn Glasgow Glasper Glass Glassburn Gleeson Glenn Glover Glynn Godwin Goff Gofford Goheen Goin Goldey Goldson Golreen Good Goode Gooden Goodman Goodson Goodwin Gordan Gorden Gordon Gore Gorman Gortner Gossett Gowens Gowin Gowins Grady Graham Grammar Grammer Grand Grant Grave Graves Grawmer Gray Graybell Graybill Grayble Greable Green Greenlee Greeley Greenway Greenwood Gregory Greham Greiner Greybill Grice Griest Griffin Griffith Griffy Grigeland Griggs Grigsby Grill Grim Grimes Grinelly Griso Grisso Grissoe Grist Griste Grose Gross Ground Grove Groves Grub Grubb Guilford Guillford Guire Guliver Gullaer Gulliford Gullipher Gunn Gurtner Gutery Guthaney Guthrey Guthrey Guthrie Gutrich Guy Gwaltney Hack Hackett Haden Hagans Hagen Hagens Hagins Hahn Haines Hainey Hains Hair Haldeman Halderman Hale Haley Hall Haller Halspain Ham Hambeck Hambell Hambleton Hambrick Hamilton Hamman Hammet Hammett Hammon Hammond Hampton Hance Hancock Handford Handley Hane Hanes Haney Hanger Hank Hanks Hanna Hannah Hannan Hannon Hanon Hansbarger Hanson Hansone Hanspach Hapler Harbison Hardbarger Harden Hardin Hardy Harger Harkley Harler Harlow Harman Harmon Harness Harper Harriett Harrington Harris Harrison Harriss Harry Harsh Harshbarger Harshberger Harston Hart Hartigan Harman Hartrider Harvey Hase Haskins Haslep Hasten Hastin Haston Hatcher Hatten Hatton Hauntz Hawberg Hawkins Hayback Haydon Hayes Haymaker Hayman Hayne Haynes Hayns Hays Hayse Hayslip Hayth Hazlep Hazlewood Head Hearison Heart Heartman Heaven Heck Heckman Hedrick Heimlick Helams Heldibridle Helmentaller Helmentoller Helmintoller Holmontoler Helms Helphenstine Hemming Henderliter Henderson Hendrickson Hendrixon Henkle Hennen Henry Hensley Hensly Henson Heplar Hepler Herald Herbison Herman Hershberger Heslep Heslip Hess Heston Hewett Hewit Hewitt Hickinbottom Hickle Hicklen Hickman Hickok Hicks Hiestand Higginbotham Higgins Highlands Hiland Hiley Hill Hillis Hilton Himelick Himer Himes Hinderbile Hinderlighter Hinderliter Hiner Hines Hinkle Hinton Hipes Hise Hite Hively Hix Hoage Hobbs Hobson Hodd Hodges Hofakut Hoff Hoffman Hofan Hogans Hogen Hogshead Holbrook Holdeman Holdron Holley Holliday Holloway Holmes Holoway Holstein Holstine Holston Holt Honce Hood Hoof Hoofanger Hook Hoole Hoosey Hooven Hoover Hopkins Horn Hornel Horton Hott Houbert Hough Houlston Houpt Houry Houseman Housman Houston Houtts Houtz Howard Howbert Howel Howell Howrey Howrt Howry Hoylman Hubbard Huddle Hudnell Hudson Hues Huff Huffman Hufinton Hufman Huggins Hughes Hughs Hullar Hulse Humphrey Humphreys Humphries Humphris Hundley Hunsman Hunter Huntsman Hurley Hurst Hurt Hutcheson Hutchins Hutchinson Hutchison Hutson Hyner Hypes Icanburg Icehower Icenhower Icyhower Idle Inchminger Ingart Ingle Inglehart Ingleman Ingles Inglish Inksel Intsminger Irby Ireland Irvine Iraacks Ischower Isenbarger Isenhower Jack Jacks Jackson Jacobs James Jameson Jamison Jarret Jarrett Jarrit Jarrot Jarvis Jeans Jefferson Jemison Jenkins Jennings Jerrell Jeter Jewel Jewell Jinings Jinkens Jinkins John Johnson Johnston Jonathan Jones Jonson Jopling Jordan Jorden Jordon Justice Jyser Kale Kanode Karnes Karns Karr Kasler Kasslar Kassler Katron Kayser Kayton Keagey Kean Keasea Kee Keefauver Kefauver Keffer Keith Keller Kelley Kelly Kemm Kemp Kemplin Kenedy Kennday Kennedy Kenner Kennerly Kennett Kenney Kenning Kenny Kent Kerby Kern Kerns Kerr Keslar Kesler Kesslar Kessler Ketinger Key Keyes Keys Keyser Kibert Kidd Kiddy Kilconan Kile Kilmer Kilmore Kilpatrick Kilse Kimberland Kimberlane Kimberlin Kimberling Kimes Kimm Kincade Kincaid King Kingan Kingen Kingin Kinkead Kinerly Kinsey Kinzer Kinzey Kinzie Kinzy Kirfman Kirk Kirkman Kirkpatrick Kirkwood Kish Kitchen Kitterman Kittinger Kizer Kinzey Kinzie Kinzy Kirfman Kirk Kirkman Kirkpatrick Kirkwood Kish Kitchen Kiterman Kittinger Kizer Knight Knode Knowles Knox Knozworthy Knuckles Koger Kool Koonts Kringry Krouse Kuster Kyle Lacey Lack Lackey Lackland Lacy Lanfonce Laforce Lake Lamb Lambert Lamen Lamon Landers Landis Landon Landridge Landrum Landsdown Lane Lang Langhorne Lanius Lannius Lantern Lanthron Lantz Lapan Lapsley Lark Larkin Larue Lash Laten Lauderdale Lauman Launius Laurman Lavender Lavinder Law Lawrence Lay Layman Laymon Layn Layne Layton Leady League Leamon Leatherdal Leatherdale Ledbetter Ledgerwood Lee Leech Leek Leeps Leffel Leffell Leffle Leffler Lefler Lefon Leforce Leftwich Legans Leib Leibe Leibs Leighton Leipe Leips Lemar Lemare Lemman Lemmon Lemmons Lemon Leonard Lesley Lester Lettens Leuty Level Leven Levingston Lewallen Lewellen Lewill Lewis Liden Lillies Lilly Limbaugh Lindon Linsey Linkenager Linkenaser Linkenauger Linkenboger Linkenhoger Linkenhoker Linkenoger Linkinauger Linkinhoger Linkinhoker Linkinshoker Linkous Linn Linsey Linton Lipes Litchford Litle Litten Litteral Litterel Little Littlepage Litton Littral Littrel Littrell Livingston Llary Lloyd Loague Lockhard Locket Lockett Lockey Lockhart Lockney Lofland Logan Logue Long Looney Loop Louis Loury Lout Love Loving Lowman Lowry Loyd Loyt Luck Ludwick Lugar Lukus Luney Lunsford Luster Lutey Lykins Lyle Lyon Lyons Lype Lypes Lytel MacClintuck MacEntire Machan Mackey Macloy Maculic Maddox Madison Madocks Magard Magart Maggard Maggart Maggot Magruder Mahan Mahone Maiden Maits Malcom Maller Mallery Mallory Mallow Malls Malone Man Manca Mangue Mangus Manguss Manka Mankey Mankpiel Mankspile Mann Manners Manspiel Manspile Mapes Marchant Marckle Mariam Markee Markey Markham Markrim Marky Marrow Marshall Martin Mason Masterson Maston Matheny Mathews Matthew Matthews Mattocks Mattox Maupin Maury Maxey Maxwell May Mayberry Mayers Mayes Mayhew Mayhue Mayo Mays Mayse McArtey McAshan McBreath McCabe McCafferty McCahah McCahan McCale McCalgan McCalister McCall McCallister McCallum McCan McCantis McCarrol McCarroll McCartney McCarty McCaslin McCaul McCauley McCauslon McCawla McCawley McClain McClanahan McClaugherty McClaughlin McClelan McClellan McClelon McClenachan McClenechan McClenehan McClintick McClintock McCloskey McCluer McClung McClure McColgan McColgin McColough McConkey McConky McConnall McConnel McConnell McCord McCorkle McCormack McCormick McCoun McCowan McCown McCoy McCravey McCraw McCray McCreary McCreery McCrery McCrory McCroskey McCulley McCullock McCully McCurry McCutcheon McDavids McDermed McDonal McDonald McDowel McDowell McEhenny McElhany McElheney McElheny McElwaine McElwee McFadden McFall McFallan McFalls McFarran McFerran McFerson McGavock McGee McGeorge McGilvray McGinniss McGowan McGowen McGuire McGuyer McHaffy McHaskin McHenry McIheny McIlvoy McIntosh McIver McKalaster McKalester McKee McKenary McKenny McKinney McKnight McKutchen McLaugherty McLaughlin McMahan McMullen McMullin McMurray McMurrey McMurry McMurtrey McNeal McNeally McNeel McNeely McNeil McNeill McNutt McPhearson McPheeters McPherson McRoberts McVey McWhorter Meador Meadow Meadows Means Mease Medley Medlin Mefford Meggit Mehone Melling Mellon Menge Menou Meredith Merrill Merrit Merritt Messoner Michael Middlecoff Middlekauff Mifford Miles Milholand Milhollen Milirons Millar Miller Millholland Millirons Millner Millons Mills Miltenbarger Miltobarger Milton Minder Mindor Mineleaf Miner Mingas Minich Minick Minnich Minnick Minno Minor Minter Mires Mitchell Mittebarger Mittenbarger Modisett Moffett Moler Mondgold Mongold Monical Monicle Monroe Montague Montgomery Moody Moomaw Moore Moorman Morgan Morgan Morricle Morris Morrow Morton Mosby Mosely Moser Moses Moss Motley Moul Moulds Moule Mourn Mowles Moyer Moyers Muldrough Muldwich Mullen Mumbred Munday Murphey Murphy Murray Murrell Murrill Murry Muse Mussins Myars Myers Nace Nafe Nail Nance Nash Nave Nevil Navill Neace Neal Neathawk Neelly Neely Neff Neice Neidy Neighborns Neighbours Neile Nelson Nevil Nevill Newbury Newcom Newcome Newell Newgen Newlin Newman Newport Newton Nibert Nicely Nicewanger Nicewonger Nicholas Nichols Nickles Niday Nidey Nidy Nierce Nillirons Ninengar Niningar Nininger Noble Noffsinger Nofsinger Nofsinger Noftzinger Noniger Noonin North Norvell Now Nowell Nugent Nutter Nye Nysewand O’Bryan O’Neal O’Tull Oaks Obenchain Obenshain Obensheen Ocheltree Ockerman Ockiltree Odom Ogburne Ogden Ogilby Ohair Oiler Old Oldham Olds Olinger Oliver Olphan Onee Openchain Opinchain Orange Osborn Otey Ott Ovenchain Overchain Overholser Overstreet Ovington Owen Owens Owin Owins Oyler Paffley Pafley Page Painter Palmer Pamplin Pannel Pannell Par Parish Parker Parks Parnes Parr Parrish Parrot Parsinger Parsons Pate Paterel Patesell Patsel Patterson Patton Patzell Paul Pauley Pauper Paupey Paxton Payne Peacock Peal Pear Pearcy Pearson Pearcy Peas Peck Pedan Peel Peeling Peeples Peerey Peery Peffley Pefley Pegee Peightal Pell Pence Pencehead Pendle Pendleton Penn Pennington Penningtrkholder Peppercorn Perdieu Pereyfield Perrin Perry Persinger Person Peter Peterman Peters Petit Petross Pettey Pettigrew Pettit Petty Pettygrew Phaup Philips Phillips Phipps Piatt Pickering Pickett Pierce Pifer Piffley Pifley Pile Piringer Pitman Pittinger Pitzer Platt Pleasants Plott Plymale Plymell Poage Poague Poalk Pogue Polk Poppa Poppau Poppaw Poque Porter Potts Powell Powers Pramay Pratt Preble Prentice Prestob Preston Prewet Prible Price Prince Prindle Printz Pritchard Prophet Prothero Pruitt Prumpecker Prunk Pryor Puet Pugh Pullen Pullin Pulling Purseley Pursley Putman Pyre Quarles Quarry Quick Quickle Quigley Quiney Quisenberry Quond Rader Radford Ragland Raines Rambo Ramsey Ramsy Randle Randles Randolph Ranes Rankin Ranney Ranson Ray Raymer Reaburne Read Reade Ream Reburn Rector Redden Reddy Redford Redinger Redman Reed Rees Reese Reeve Reeves Reid Remern Renfro Renn Rettinger Rettique Review Reyburn Reyburne Reynold Reynolds Rhinehart Rhodafer Rhodes Ribble Rice Richards Richardson Richeson Richey Richie Richison Riddell Riddesbarger Riddle Riddlebarger Riddleberger Riddlesbarger Ridlesbarger Rife Riffey Riffy Riggle Right Rightsman Rigny Riley Rinehard Rinehart Rineheart Ring Riple Ripley Rison Risque Ritchey Ritesman Ritter River Roads Road Roberson Robinett Robins Robinson Robison Rock Rodaheffer Rodehizer Rodgers Rogers Ronck Ronk Roop Rose Ross Rossel Rosser Rouk Routsong Row Rowan Rowe Rowen Rowland Royal Royall Ruble Rucker Rudd Ruddle Rudisile Rudisill Rudizill Rule Ruly Runnells Runnels Runnion Rusel Russell Rutherford Rutter Ruttinger Ryan Sabrit Saddler Safley Saftly Saintentaffer Saintlear Sale Salmon Sanders Sands Sarber Sarver Sarvery Saunders Savill Saville Sawyer Sawyers Saxon Sayford Scandland Scanland Scantland Scantlin Schneck Schew Schoonover Schrawyer Schroder Scifford Scisson Scoonover Scott Scrackengharst Scroggin Seacat Seacatt Seacrist Seagle Seagraves Sears Seaver Sebert Secrist Seeford Seegraves Seegrist Seelar Sefford Seigler Selby Sell Sellman Selvey Selvy Sense Sentz Sephyr Serber Server Sesler Sesslar Settles Sewel Sewell Sexton Shaddon Shafer Shaffer Shahan Shamaker Shank Shanklin Shanks Sharkey Sharmaker Sharrard Shartser Shartzer Shatser Shauman Shaver Shaw Shawver Sheets Sheetz Sheff Shelden Shephard Shepherd Sherette Sherman Sherrad Sherrod Shetser Shettle Shewey Shewman Shewster Shields Shipley Shirkey Shivers Shoemaker Shootman Short Shoup Showalter Showalters Shrackengast Shrewsberry Shrewsbury Shrickingast Shue Shuey Shuff Shuke Shulah Shull Shultz Shuteman Sibart Siebert Sifford Silcock Siler Silver Silvers Silvey Simmerman Simmon Simmons Simms Simnemon Simpkins Simpson Sims Sinclair Sinclear Sindendorf Siner Sinkhorn Sintclair Sirkle Sisson Sites Sitlington Sittington Sizer Sizor Skaggs Skeen Skidmore Skillern Skylark Slack Slanker Slater Slaughter Sligh Slinker Sloan Sloane Slone Sloss Slusser Sly Smalling Smallwood Smelser Smiley Smith Smithers Smoot Smyth Smythe Sneed Snider Snodgrass Snow Snyder Solenbayer Solinbarger Solman Soloman Sorrel Sorrell Souder Sovain Sovaine Sowder Sowers Spangler Spaulding Speagle Speakman Spears Speckard Speckart Speckhart Speers Speigle Spencer Sperry Spesard Spessard Spessart Spicard Spickard Spickart Spickhart Spicklemoyer Spigle Spiller Spindle Spitlar Spitler Spradling Spratt Sproul Spurlock Spyker Squire St.Clair StClair Stailey Stair Staley Stamback Stanback Stanley Stark Starke Starks Starr Starrett Statler Staut Stayley Steber Steed Steel Steele Steen Steenberger Steenson Steinburgen Stennet Stephens Sterling Sternly Sterrett Stesson Stetler Stevens Stever Steward Stewart Stickleman Stiff Stiles Still Stinnet Stinnett Stip Stone Stoner Stott Stover Stowers Stratton Street Strickland Strine Strough Stuart Stull Styne Sullenbarger Sullivan Sullybarger Summerfield Summers Surber Surbur Susanne Sutherland Sutton Swainey Swanson Swatts Sweetland Swerengen Swisher Switcher Switzer Sybert Syckells Syrey Tabscott Tacket Tackitt Tagoe Talbot Talley Tally Tankersley Tanner Tapscott Tate Tatham Taylor Teale Telford Templeton Tennant Tenne Tennison Tenny Terrill Terry Tharp Thomas Thomason Thomasson Thomison Thompson Thorn Thornhill Thorp Thrasher Thresher Thrisher Tilford Tillery Tillett Tindal Tingler Tinsley Tipton Titus Todd Tolbert Toler Tolley Tolly Tomason Tomens Tomson Toomey Tootle Topping Tosh Toung Towler Townsley Tracy Travy Trenetor Trenor Trent Treslar Tresler Tressler Trevey Trevy Trigg Trisor Trotter Trout Troutt Trusell Trusler Trustler Tucker Tummons Turk Turley Turman Turner Turpin Tweley Tygert Tyler Tyree Umfries Umphrey Unrue Upton Urick Urmey Urmy Urnduff Valentine Vance Vandegrift Vandine Vanmatre Vanmeter Vanmetre Vanover Vansand Vansandt Varner Vass Vaughan Vaughn Vaun Vauns Veal Venmater Vensent Verner Vest Vickers Vimer Vines Vineyard Vinsant Vinyard Viors Vonesson Voss Votans Voyers Vyers Waddle Waddy Wade Wagener Waggoner Wagner Wagoner Wait Waits Waldron Waldwin Wales Walker Walkup Wall Wallace Walls Walrond Walter Walters Walton Wamucks Ward Warden Ware Warner Warnock Waskey Wasky Waterson Watkins Watson Watterson Watts Watwood Wax Wayman Wease Weathered Weathers Weaver Web Webb Webster Weeks Wees Weese Weir Weirs Welch Weller Welsh Wenger Wertz West Wharton Whealess Wheat Wheeling Wheelus Whislar Whisler Whistler Whitaker White Whitehead Whitehill Whiteneck Whitesides Whitley Witmer Whitmore Whitner Whitsell Whitten Wias Wiatt Wiblin Wickham Wickline Widle Wier Wiers Wigers Wigg Wilcher Wiley Wilhelm Wilkinson Wilks Willcocks Willet Willett Willey Willfong Willhelms Williams Williamson Willington Willis Wills Willson Wilmore Wilsher Wilson Wimer Wimond Windard Windsor Wineman Wines Wingar Wingard Wingart Winger Winsor Winston Winther Wirte Wirts Wisong Witeral Withero Witherow Withers Witt Wolf Wolfe Wolfinbarger Wolfingbarger Woltz Woltze Womack Wood Woodard Wooden Woodluf Woodruff Woods Woodson Woodville Woolandi Wooley Woolf Woolwine Word Worden Worley Wort Worth Wortmiller Worts Wortz Wray Wren Wright Wrightsman Writter Wyand Wyatt Wyllie Wymer Wyserman Wyson Wysonburg Wysong Yates Yeargan Yeargin Yearout Yeast Yocum Yop Yopp Yost Young Zeagler Zell Ziglar Zigler Zimmerman Zirkle Zollman

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Botetourt County Marriages, 1770-1853 (Virginia Historic Marriage Register Series) 2-Volume set

Genealogy Fair at the Family Life Center of Fincastle, Virginia, October 11, 2008

I wanted to pass this along. I am going to try to attend but I do not know that for certain at this point...

"October 11, 2008 - Genealogy Fair being held at Fincastle in the Family Life Center at the corner of Church & Academy St, Fincastle, Va. Hours 9-3 . Plenty of free parking available.

Our speakers are, Pam Young will talk about the holdings in the Virginia Room at the Main Library in Roanoke on Jefferson St., The Botetourt Historical Society will tell us about early Botetourt County and their holdings in the museum, Loretta Caldwell will tell about researching Botetourt County Courthouse Records, Susan Mason will give a short lesson on writing your personal history, Harry Gleason will talk about the history of Buchanan, & Sally Eads about Colonial Women.. The Botetourt Genealogy Club will be showing photos from the cemetery photograph project all day. There will be a book vendor with local authors and Botetourt history. Botetourt Genealogy Club, Botetourt Historical Society & Museum, Alleghany County, Rockbridge County, and Bedford County Historical & Genealogy Societies along with several about 20 researchers have tables with many Botetourt County surnames .. There will be a large display of churches, schools and people in the African American Communities. A tour of Fincastle will be provided, weather permitting. We will have some door prizes for both the vendors and the public. The event is Free. Donations accepted.

Friends of the Fincastle Library will serve food. Funds from the sale will be earmarked for the Fincastle Library Genealogy Room.

The Courthouse is open 8:30 - 4:30 Monday - Friday. The library is open 9-9 Monday & Thursday, 9-6 Tuesday & Wednesday, 9-5 on Friday. Normal Saturday hours are 9-1, however the day of the fair the library will be open 9-3. The Museum is open 7 days a week. 10-2 except Sunday 12-4.

I hope this helps you with your plans to visit Fincastle."

Book Review: "1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners Botetourt County Virginia" with last name index

The following is a summary of Roger G. Ward's "1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners Botetourt County Virginia". This is a paperback print by New Papyrus Co., Inc. of Athens, Georgia and contains 51 pages.

In 1782 the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county an enumeration of land and certain personal property. These early land tax laws required a tax commissioner in each district of a county to record a list of the names of persons owning land or town lots, the quantity of land owned and its value, and the amount of tax owed. By 1813, a brief geographic description (usually citing an adjacent stream, road, or other landmark) was required; in 1814, the distance and direction from the courthouse for each parcel was also added to the tax rolls.

This work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in the county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the said property. They have not included the number of acres, taxes assessed, or any transactions between landowners which may have been noted on the tax rolls; also, in many cases the geographic location was provided as "adjacent to John Smith", etc. and, while useful many times to a genealogist, was considered to be beyond the objectives of this project. The reader is encouraged to consider the information here-in as an "outline" of early landowners in Virginia rather than a "text" due to the year-to-year variation in information provided to the clerk (or recorded by the clerk), omissions, lack of "identifiers" to determine if "same name" was also "same person" within a district or across districts, marginal quality/clarity (in a few cases) of the microfilm copy, and, not least, errors on the part of either the original clerks or the current author while transcribing.

Some of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:

• Observe distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as "Smith", "Anderson", etc.
• Identify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county)
• Determine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives)
• Use the 1815 info as a "bridge" from the 18th and 19th century deed/will books to the 17th and 18th century land grants/patents in the county
• Evaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors
• Substitute this information for missing deed/will books in the "burned" counties; and, clarify/enhance vague deed/will information in the counties with more complete records

Each entry is listed as: Surname, name, personal identifiers (if any); location/place-name of land; miles/direction from the 1815 courthouse. If multiple owners are listed for a property, the listing is duplicated under each of the owner's surnames (i.e "Smith and Brown" is also listed as "Brown, --see Smith"); when multiple owners share a common surname, the property is only listed once. When a landowner had land at more than one location/place-name, the miles/direction listing for each parcel is in the same sequence as the location listing (i.e. James RV, Slate CK; 12N, 5SW.). In the few cases where a landowner had "many" parcels, the miles/direction notation is attached to the location listing (i.e. Sandy RV- 5NE, Willow CK-7S, etc.)

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Here are two sample entries from the book:

• "Boggs, Stephen, of Rockbridge County; Arnolds Valley; 25E"
• "Bridgland, Soloman; Fincastle"

The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbot Abel Acton Acton Aston Adams Alderson Alexander Allen Amen Amix Amyx Anderson Angel Arbuckle Armontrout Armstrong Arnold Ashdon Austin Aversole Bachus Bailey Bain Baker Banday Bandey Banks Banning Barclay Bare Barger Barnes Barney Barnhart Barten Bartlet Baxter Bays Beagler Beal Beale Beard Beckner Beher Beaker Bell Bennett Betts Biggs Bilbro Billups Bird Bishop Black Blain Blair Blunt Boggess Boggs Bolt Book Booker Booth Booze Borze Bossvinder Boswillman Botts Bower Bowers Bowyer Bowyers Boyd Breakenridge Bream Briant Brickey Bridgland Brits Bronomer Brooks Brough Brown Brownlee Bryan Bryans Buckhannon Bukner Buknor Burger Burket Burkholder Burndrager Burns Burwell Bush Butcher Butler Butlor Butt Cahoon Caldwell Campbell Camper Carden Cardon Carlton Carnez Carpenter Carper Carrol Cartmill Carvin Casey Chambers Champ Chandler Chapman Chevalier Chisholm Circle Clark Cleck Clegg Clice Cloyd Coffman Coldmen Coldoon Coldwell Cole Compston Cook Coon Cooper Copp Correll Cox Cradock Craft Crawford Crist Crites Crocket Crodion Cross Crouse Crush Custard Custer Dagges Dames Daina Daniel Daton Davidson Davis Davison Day Deal Deardoff Delong Delzell Dempsey Dennis Denton Depew Depey Dicson Dill Dillard Dillman Dillmon Dilmon Disher Dodd Dollman Donald Donner Douglas Douthal Douthat Douthet Downs Drake Duckwilor Dudding Dunnington Duval Duvall Dwier Eakin Earhart Earley Eddington Edgar Edslor Eller Erley Ervin Evans Falls Faris Farrier Farris Faught Fergerson Ferrel Filson Findley Firestone Fizer Flaharty Fleeger Fleming Flook Forest Forgerson Forrester Fout Fowler Frank Franklin Fransisco Frants French Fringer Fudge Fulhart Fults Fulwiler Gafford Galbraith Gallego Gannt Garat Garnant Garwood Gates Gattey Gay George Gharst Gibbins Gillaspie Gilleland Gilmore Gish Givens Glasburn Glinn Glyn Godwin Gofford Gohsen Goodman Gorden Gormon Gortner Gortnur Graham Graves Gray Graybill Green Greenlee Greenwood Griffin Grimes Grinniway Grissa Grist Gross Ground Grup Guillford Guthery Hamilton Hammett Hammond Hancock Hanley Hannah Hanner Hannon Hardey Hardy Hare Harkman Harman Harris Harrison Harshbarger Hart Hartman Harvey Hausmon Haymaker Haynes Hays Hays Hazlewood Heck Hedrick Helmondoller Helms Henderliter Henderson Hendrixon Henry Heplor Herd Hewit Hickel Hickman Hill Hime Hinor Hinten Hipes Hiveley Hogg Holler Holstin Honts Hook Horn Houston Houts Howard Howel Howrey Huddle Hudson Huff Huffman Huhn Humphries Hunter Hurst Icehower Inglehart Intzminger Irvine Isaacks Jackson James Janny Jenkins Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Jordon Kaylor Kayser Kayton Keachey Keefavaur Keeth Keith Kelley Kelly Kem Kennerly Kenny Keplar Kerns Kerrigan Kesler Keslor Kilmer Kimberling King Kinzey Kirk Kirzman Kittinger Knox Kybert Kyle Lackey Lackland Lafau Lamkin Lamuir Lamuin Lanius Lark Lavander Law Lawman Lawry Lawson Ledbetter Leffel Leffle Leib Lemmon Lemon Lewis Linch Lindsay Linglocker Linkinanger Linkinauger Linkinhoker Little Lockett Lockhart Logan Long Long Lang Looney Loony Loop Love Luck Lynn Madison Magget Mahan Malling Mallow Malory Mangess Mankspile Manley Markey Marshel Martain Martin Mason Matthews Maund Maxwell May Mays McCarroll McClanahan McClung McClure McColgan McConnal McConnell McCreary McCrery McCroskey McDermot McDonnald McDowell McFalls McFerran McGeorge McGowen McIlhaney McIlvoy McIver McKalister McKinlay McMichen McNaughton McNeal McNight McRoberts Means Middlecoff Middlecuff Miller Millirous Mills Minick Mitchel Mitchell Moomaw Moore More More Moseley Mosley Moyar Moyars Moyer Moyers Muldrath Murphey Murrey Muse Myers Myors Neelly Neil Nelson Newell Newman Nicely Nicewonger Nicholas Nidey Nininger Noftzinger Norville Nutter Obenihain ODonald Olinger Olverson ONeal Otey Ovenshane Overholts Owen Palmer Panter Pappey Parrish Parsons Pate Patterson Paxton Payn Peale Peck Peery Pefley Pence Perey Persing Persinger Peterman Peters Pettey Phillips Pickle Pitzer Platt Poage Polk Porter Portiaux Prank Preston Prewett Prince Pyror Quarrier Rader Rank Raybig Reddey Redinger Redmond Reed Reid Renn Reynolds Rhoads Richardson Rickey Riddle Riddlesebarger Riffe Riggle Rightsman Rinehart Ripley Risque Roan Roberts Robertson Robison Rock Roger Rogers Ross Routsaw Rowland Royal Rudisell Rule Rumsay Rutherford Saftley Sarver Sawyer Sawyers Scandlan Scott Seacat Seacatt Seacott Seacrest Sefford Segle Senty Sentz Server Seslar Seslor Shanklin Shanks Sharrod Shatser Shaver Shawver Sheets Sheffer Sheffey Shepherd Sherkey Sherman Sherod Shewalter Shewey Shirkey Shrewsberry Simmons Simpson Sims Singer Sites Skidmore Skillern Smelser Smiley Smith Snider Snodgrass Snyder Spangler Speckhart Spetsard Spickard Spitler Staley Stanback Stanley Star Starrett Stephens Sterrett Stetlor Stever Stewart Stoner Stover Strickland Stull Sullinbarger Summerfield Switzer Tapscott Tate Tayloe Taylor Tebbs Terry Thomas Thrasher Thresher Tosh Trenis Trenor Tressler Trigg Trout Turner Unrue Upton Urmey Urmey Vandine Vanmetre Vaugn Vinyard Wadkins Waggoner Wagnor Waits Walker Wallace Wallis Walton Ward Warner Watkins Watson Watts Wax Weathers Weaver Webster Welch Wert Werts West Westler White Whitecraft Whiteneck Whitten Wiley Wilhelm Williams Willson Wilson Winmon Wisner Wolf Woltz Womack Wood Woods Woodson Woolf Wooltz Woolwine Wornock Wray Wright Wysong Young Younghusband Zentmier Zimmerman Zull

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Book Review: "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" with Last Name Index M-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index, M-Z, of "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" by Dorthie and Edwin Kirkpatrick, 443 pages, index, figures, map. Rockbridge County's creation in 1778 from portions of Augusta and Botetourt counties was part of a flurry of new county organizations and older county subdivisions during the Revolutionary period. Despite the war, the frontier was moving inexorably westward, and the new county of Rockbridge represented an area now more densely settled and requiring its own polity. A total of 4,785 marriages have been extracted directly from courthouse records as well as from newspaper and other published sources; these references include parents' name, bondsmen, ministers' names and their denominations. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1985 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

If you would like to purchase a copy, you can click here to get it at Amazon:

Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850

FYI, the book you would get contains all letters A-Z but I broke them up here into two posts so they would not look so long.

Here are two sample entries from the book:

• "Moore James & Mary Kirkpatrick 19 Jan 1797; d John min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"
• "Adair Elizabeth & Samuel Snodgrass 22 Nov 1792; d James min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"

The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Maben MacKamon Mackey Maddocks Mairs Mallin Malone Mann Manspile Mappins Margrave Marks Marshall Martin Mason Masters Masterson Matchet Matseer Matheney Mateny Mathews Matthews Maupin Maxwell May Mayberry Mayers Maylor Maynaugh Mays Mayse McAdam McAleer McAlister McAllison McAllister McBride McCabe McCaferty McCaleb McCall McCalmon McCalpin McCampbell McCartney McCarty McCaskry McCaslin McCawly McChesney McClain McClanahan McClane McCleland McClelland McClellen McCleahan McClentic McClintic McClintick McClintock McCloy McCluer McClung McClure McColgan McCollack McCollem McCollister McColm McComb McConel McConky McConnel McCorkle McCormack McCormick McCoskey McCoul McCowan McCowen McCown McCoy McCrary McCray McCrea McCreary McCreery McCrery McCrey McCrory McCroskey McCroskie McCroskry McCrosky McCroy McCue McCulloch McCullock McCullough McCundrey McCurdy McCutcheon McCutcheon McDaniel McDonald McDonell McDonal McDonnald McDonnel McDowell McElhaney McElhanney McElhany McElheny McElwain McElwee McEntosh McEwen McFadden McFaddin McFall McFarland McGavick McGill McGilton McGilvray McGinnis McGowan McGuffach McGuffin McHenry McIlwain McKamon McKamy McKee McKeeman McKeever McKehan McKemy McKennie McKenny McKenry McKenzie McKey McKinney McKinsey McKnight McLaughlin McLeod McMahan McManamyp McManaay McMasters McMath McMillan McMillen McMullen McNabb McNair McNaughton McNeil McNutt McPheetars McPheeters McPherson McQueen McQuillen McQuillin McQuoun McRay McSpadden McTear McVay McVey McWhorter Meeker Meeks Merchants Merritt Michael Michal Michel Michie Milam Milen Miler Miles Milhollin Milican Miller Milligan Milliken Milliron Millirons Mills Milor Mines Mingar Minger Minick Minnick Minnick Minton Mish Mitchel Mitchell Moats Mock Moffet Moffett Mohler Molar Moler Moles Moneymaker Monroe Montgomery Moody Moon Monney Moore Morehead Moorhead Moorman Moran Morehead Morgan Morrell Morris Morrison Morter Moseley Moses Mosss Mould Muck Mulholen Mullin Murphey Murpt Murphy Murray Muterspaugh Muterspaw Myers Mynes Nace Napper Nash Neal Neece Neely Neese Neff Neice Neil Neimmo Nelson Nephews Nesbit Nesbitt Nevins Nevious Nevius Newcomer Newham Newhorn Newkirk Newton Niceley Nicely Nicholas Nicholls Nichols Nicholson Nick Nickolls Nocks Noel Norcross Norman North Northern Novies Nowell Nowells Nuckles Null Nutty O’Brian O’Brien O’Hara O’Neal Occroman Ocheltree Ocle Odell Ogden Oiler Oilinger Oliver Oody Orbison Orenbaum Oreboun Orenbourn Orendorf Ormbourn Ornbaum Ornbourne Orndorf Ornduff Osborn Osborne Otey Ott Owen Owens Owins Oyler Pace Packet Packett Padgett Page Paine Painter Palmer Parent Park Parke Parker Parks Parrit Parry Parson Parsons Paton Patterson Patton Paul Paxton Payne Payton Pearman Peatross Peatt Peck Peel Peerman Peers Peery Peeters Pendall Pendell Penn Pennington Pepper Perry Peter Peterie Peterman Peters Peterson Petticrew Pettigrew Pettycrew Pharris Philips Philllips Pickens Picket Pierman Pine Pines Pinkerton Piper Pitt Platt Plauger Pleasants Plott Plummer Plunket Plunkett Poage Poague Poindexter Pole Pollock Pore Porter Potter Powers Pratt Presley Presly Pressley Preston Price Prichard Priestly Pring Pryor Ptomey Ptomy Pullen Pullin Pursley Purvis Putnam Pyatt Quann Quean Quigley Quinn Ra Rail Raison Ralston Ramsay Ramsey Renalds Ransbostian Ranson Rapp Raredon Ray Raycroft Rea Read Reainey Redman Redy Reece Reed Reid Reiny Rennick Replogle Repogle Reyburn Reynolds Rhea Rhoads Rhodes Rice Richards Richeson Richey Ricket Rickett Ridde Riddle Ridpath Riggins Riley Rine Rineheart Ripley Ripply Risk Rison Ristine Ritchey Ritchy Roach Rladcap Roades Roads Roberts Robertson Robinson Robison Rodenezer Rodenizer Rodes Rodgers Rogers Rolinson Rolison Rolston Roonkle Rose Ross Roulston Rowan Rowen Rowland Rowlinson Rowlison Rowsey Ruff Ruffner Rule Ruley Ruly Runcle Runnels Rupe Rupp Rush Russell Rust Ruth Ryan Ryns Sale Salling Sally Sample Sanders Sandford Sandige Sandridge Saunders Savage Savil Savill Saville Sawyer Sawyers Schermerhorn Scott Sea Seabrook Seacat Seagler Seahorn Seal Seay See Sehorn Seisson Selby Self Selinder Selph Senecor Sensabaugh Sevack Sevel Shafer Shaffer Shainer Shaner Shank Shanor Sharp Shaver Shaw Sheckle Sheets Shekle Sheltman Shepherd Sheppard Shereman Sherrett Shewy Shields Shiner Ship Shipley Shiply Shirk Shirley Shiry Shoemaker Short Shoulder Shroyers Shuey Shults Shultz Siders Siler Silor Silvey Simbrow Simmerman Simmonds Simonds Simons Simpkins Simpson Sims Sincks Sintz Siron Sitlington Sivell Sizer Sizor Skean Skeen Skidmore Slagle Slaughter Sloan Slone Slough Slow Sly Smeltz Smiley Smith Smithson Smyth Snead Sneed Snider Snodgrass Snyder Solis Soloman Solomon Somervell Somerville Sorrell Sorrells Sorrels Sousong Sowers Spance Spears Speer Spence Spencer Spitler Spitzer Spodern Spohr Spriggs Sprinkle Sproul Sprouse Sprowl Staley Stanage Standoff Stanley Staples Stark Starke Starr Staten Staton Steel Steele Stephen Stephens Stephenson Sterling Sterrett Stevens Stewart Stickleather Stiff Still Stillwell Stinnett Stirling Stockdale Stockdell Stokely Stokes Stone Stoner Stoop Stoops Stout Stowell Strain Strange Strathan Stratton Straub Strauss Stricker Stricklan Strickland Stricklen Strickler Stricklin Strong Strothers Struthers Stuart Studdy Stuple Sturgen Suddith Summers Supinger Surface Surfix Susong Suthard Sutherland Sutten Sutton Swadley Swan Swanson Swartzer Swearingham Sweet Swink Swinney Swisher Swoope Swope Snyders Sylers Sylor Tadford Taggart Taliaferro Tankersly Tankery Tapscot Tapscott Tarbet Tardy Tate Taylor Teaford Tedford Teel Teele Telford Tellor Temple Templeton Tenant Tennant Tennett Terry Tetherly Tharp Thomas Thomason Thommison Thompson Thorn Thornton Thurman Tidd Tierney Tigart Tilford Till Tillery Timberlake Tinslay Todd Tole Tolley Tolls Tolly Tolston Toman Tomlinson Tooley Tooly Topping Torbit Tosh Townsley Tracy Travis Treavy Trencher Tgresham Trevey Trevy Tribbet Gribbett Tribett Trice Trimble Trisham Trivett Trotter Trout Troxall Troxel Troxell Trusler Truxal Truxall Tucker Tudor Tuley Tuly Tungate Tungit Tuning Turner Turpin Tutwiler Tygret Tyler Tyree Unroe Unrow Updike Upton Ustick Utley Vandegraft Vanpelt Vansandt Vansant Vance Vardy Varner Vaughan Vena Venable Venrick Venus Vernon Vernon Vess Vest Via Vickery Viers Vigus Vinsant Vinzandt Vines Vineyard Waddle Wade Waid Walker Walkup Wall Wallace Wallacve Waller Walls Walter Walters Walton Wamack Wane Ward Wardlaw Wardlow Ware Warner Warrall Warren Warwick Waskey Wasky Wason Wasson Waters Watkins Watson Watt Watters Watts Waugh Wauson Waysman Weare Weathers Weaver Webb Weed Weeks Weer Weightman Weir Welch Welchaus Wellchon Wells Welsh Welter Wence Wentz West Westrip Weyble Whealiss Wheat Wheeler Whipple Whistler White Whitelock Whitely Whiteman Whitesel Whitesell Whiteside Whitezel Whitley Whitlock Whitman Whitmore Whitsel Whitt Whitten Whitzel Whitzell Wiars Wilber Wilburn Wilcher Wiles Wiley Wilhelm Wilkerson Wilkins Wilkinson Williams Willamson Willocks Willson Wilmore Wilmoth Wilson Wiltshire Wimer Winat Windell Windle Wine Winegar Winn Winner Winter Winters Wire Wise Wieseman Wisenburg Withers Withrow Wood Woodard Wooden Woods Woodson Woodward Workman Worley Worly Worsley Woskey Wright Wyand Wyatt Wyer Wyler Wynant Wynat Wyre Yeast Yeates Yeats Youel Youell Young Zimbron Zink Zollman

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Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850

Book Review: "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" with Last Name Index A-L

The following is a summary of the last name index, A-L, of "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" by Dorthie and Edwin Kirkpatrick, 443 pages, index, figures, map. Rockbridge County's creation in 1778 from portions of Augusta and Botetourt counties was part of a flurry of new county organizations and older county subdivisions during the Revolutionary period. Despite the war, the frontier was moving inexorably westward, and the new county of Rockbridge represented an area now more densely settled and requiring its own polity. A total of 4,785 marriages have been extracted directly from courthouse records as well as from newspaper and other published sources; these references include parents' name, bondsmen, ministers' names and their denominations. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1985 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

If you would like to purchase a copy, you can click here to get it at Amazon:

Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850

FYI, the book you would get contains all letters A-Z but I broke them up here into two posts so they would not look so long.

Here are two sample entries from the book:

• "Moore James & Mary Kirkpatrick 19 Jan 1797; d John min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"
• "Adair Elizabeth & Samuel Snodgrass 22 Nov 1792; d James min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"

The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbot Abbott Ackerly Acres Acton Adair Adam Adams Agar Ager Agner Agnew Agnor Agor Aignor Aiken Ailstock Aires Airhart Aken Albright Alestock Alexander Alison Allbright Allen Alley Allison Almonrode Alphin Amick Ammen Amole Ampy Amyx Anderson Andrew Andrews Anthony Aps Archer Archibald Argenbright Armentrout Armstrong Arnold Arry Arthur Asby Aschew Asher Ashford Athens Athon Atkins Atkinson Auld Austin Axton Aylett Ayres Ayrs Bacon Baer Bagby Baggs Bagley Bailey Bailor Bails Baily Baker Baldock Baldwin Bales Ball Ballard Balser Balsor Baltzer Bane Bannen Banning Bannington Barclay Barcus Barger Barington Barker Barkey Barlow Barnett Bartley Barton Bates Battles Bauserman Baxter Bay Bayles Beach Bean Bear Beard Beason Beats Beattie Beatty Beaty Beaver Becket Beckett Beckham Bedford Beech Beers Beeson Beetley Beets Beggs Below Bell Belser Bely Bennett Bennington Benson Benton Bernard Berry Berryhill Best Bettis Bettisowrth Beverly Bias Bicket Bickle Biddle Bierly Biggs Bill Bird Birmingham Black Blackburn Blackwell Blain Blair Blakey Blane Blessing Blosser Blueford Blunt Bly Bobbit Bobbitt Bodkin Bodkins Bogan Bogges Boggess Boggs Bogle Bohrer Bolen Bollen Boltaon Bonnett Booker Boon Booz Borden Borders Bordin Bosserman Bosters Bowler Bowlin Bowman Bowyer Boy Boyd Boys Bracken Brackley Bradds Bradley Bradly Brads Brady Braford Brand Brant Bratton Braun Brawford Brawley Bready Breedlove Breslin Bridge Bridgeland Bridges Bridget Bridgett Bright Britt Broaddus Brobeck Brobick Brock Brockenbrough Brogan Broobach Brook Brooks Broom Brosius Brown Brownfield Brownless Brubeck Bruce Brush Bryan Bryant Buchanan Buckingham Buckley Buckner Buckridge Bumgardner Bunch Buntain Bunton Burden Burford Burgess Burkholder Burks Burns Burris Burton Bush Butler Butt Byars Byass Byer Byers Cahoon Cails Caldwell Cale Cales Calvert Calwell Camden Cameron Camlin Cammock Camp Campbell Campden Campstom Caperton Care Carlock Carnes Carpenter Carper Carr Carrick Carrier Carruthers Carson Carter Cartwright Caruther Caruthers Carver Carwell Casady Cash Caskey Casky Cassady Casteel Catlett Catlin Cato Caulk Caven Cavin Cawfel Chambers Chandler Chandley Chaplin Charlton Chasteen Cheatum Cheesman Cherry Chestnut Chew Childers Childress Chillis Chitham Chittum Chowning Christian Christopher Church Ciders Circle Cizar Clark Clarke Clarkson Clayton Cleerk Cleghorn Clemer Clemmer Clifton Climer Cline Clinebell Clownby Cloyd Clyburn Clyce Clymer Coalter Cobbs Cobham Cochran Cocke Cockeran Cofflin Coffman Cohenour Cohenower Coin Coiner Cole Coleman Collins Colston Conn Connelly Conner Connevy Connevy Connor Conolly Consolvin Conway Cook Coon Coons Cooper Coots Coper Copper Corbett Corby Cornelius Cosby Cotter Coughenour Coulter Coulton Coursey Cowan Cowfell Cowman Cox Craddy Craft Craig Craighead Cravin Crawford Cress Crigler Crist Crocket Crockett Croddy Croft Crogen Crosley Croson Cross Crossley Crossly Crouse Crout Crown Crowl Crozen Crumb Cryden Culberton Cull Culton Cumberford Cumings Cumins Cummings Cummins Cunningham Cups Curren Currey Currice Currie Curry Cusach Cusick Dabney Dads Daft Daggerm Dale Dalton Dameron Daniel Danner Darst Daugherty Davidson Davie Davies Davis Dawson Day Deacon Deal Dean Deatrick Deaver Debar Decker Deen Deerfield Defries Deitrich Deitrick Dell Demasters Dempsey Denton Desher Deshler Dial Dice Dick Dickens Dickey Dickinson Dickson Diehl Dihart Dill Dillan Dillard Diller Dillon Dingledine Divise Dix Dixon Doak Dodd Dodds Doherty Dold Donaho Donahoe Donahow Donahy Donald Donaldson Donally Donelly Donihoo Donoho Dooly Dorman Dorsey Dotson Doty Dougherty Douglas Douglass Douthat Dove Dow Dowell Down Downey Downs Doyle Drain Draper Drawband Drawbone Drumheller Drummond Dryden Dubeck Dudding Dudley Duff Duke Dunaway Duncan Dunfield Dunkum Dunlap Dunn Dupee Durkee Dutton Dyal Dyce Eads Eagle Eaken Eakin Early East Eaton Ebberd Ebert Echard Echart Echols Eckerly Edens Edington Edley Edminson Edmiston Edmondson Edmonson Edmundson Edsall Edward Edwards Egner Egnor Elder Elliot Elliott Ellis Ellwood Elwell Elwood Emick Emtsminger English Entsminger Epley Eply Eppard Epperd Epperson Ervin Erwin Eskew Eskridge Estell Eubank Eubanks Evans Everett Eves Evins Ewin Ewing Eyers Eyres Fainter Falley Fanter Farley Farra Farrell Fausnaught Feazle Fencher Fenter Fenton Ferguson Ficklin Fields Figgat Figget Findlay Findley Fink Finley Finney Firebaught Firestone Fisherf Fitzgerald Fitzpatric Fitzpatrick Fix Flanigan Fleming Flemming Fletcher Flinn Flint Flournoy Floyd Flynt Foran Forbes Forbet Ford Forean Forebaugh Forehan Forsyth Forsythe Foster Fowler Fowlyon Fox Fraiser Frame Francisco Frankham Franklin Frazer Frazier Frazor Freed Freeman French Frush Fry Fulks Fullen Fuller Fulton Fulwider Fulwiler Gabbert Gadberry Gailor Galbraith Galbreath Gale Gallaspy Gamble Gardner Garges Garison Garland Garner Garret Garrett Garrison Garth Garvey Garvie Garvin Gated Gates Gatliff Gaul Gay Gaylor Gealor Geary Geer Geerhart Geldmaker George Gerald Gibbs Gibson Gifford Gilbert Gilian Gilkeson Gilkson Gill Gilleland Gillespie Gilliam Gilliat Gillis Gillock Gilmore Ginger Gladden Glawgow Glass Glenn Glimph Glover Gosey Goff Goint Gold Gooch Good Goodbar Gooden Goodloe Goodman Goodwin Goolsby Gordan Gordon Gore Gorman Goshen Goss Goten Goul Gowen Gowl Goyne Grady Graham Grainer Grant Gray Green Greene Greenlee Greer Gregory Grice Griffin Griffith Grigsby Grim Grimes Grinstead Grist Groah Groover Grove Groves Gue Guffey Guffy Guilenger Guin Gullifer Gun Gunn Gunnel Gunter Guthery Guthrie Gutridge Hack Hadden Haden Hagan Hagen Hagett Hais Hale Hall Ham Hamnmand Hamer Hamilton Hammaker Hammers Hampton Hancock Handley Hanger Hanna Hanson Hardbarger Harden Hardwick Hardy Hare Harkins Harnest Harsbarger Harper Harrel Harris Harrison Hart Hartigan Hartless Hartman Hartsook Harvey Haslet Haslett Hatcher Hatfield Hattan Hatten Hatton Haughawout Hawott Hawpe Hay Hayes Hays Hayse Hayslet Hayslett Hayslip Haywood Heack Heck Hedley Hegins Heiser Henderson Hendran Hendron Henkle Henley Henning Hennings Henry Henton Hepler Herndon Heron Heslep Hess Hiatt Hickman Hicks Higgens Higginbottam Higgins High Highman Hight Hildreth Hileman Hill Hillen Hillery Hilliard Hillis Hilmore Himes Himo Hindman Hinds Hinkle Hite Hobbs Hobson Hodge Hoff Hoffman Hogg Hoghead Hogshead Hogue Hoilman Holbrook Holden Holingsworth Holley Holman Holmes Holt Hook Hoover Hope Hoping Hopkins Hopping Horde Horn Horner Hostater Hosteter Hostetter Houghawout Householder Houston Howard Howell Hoyless Hoylman Huddle Hudlow Hudson Huff Huffman Hugart Huggart Hughart Hughes Hughs Hull Hulsinger Humbler Humes Humphrey Humphreys Humphries Hunt Hunter Hurley Hutcheson Hutchison Hutson Hutton Hyde Hyman Hyme Hymes Icemon Icehower Imboden Imes Ingles Ingram Inkleka Innis Ireland Irick Irvin Irvine Irwin Irwine Isenhower Itchell Jack Jackson Jacob Jacobs James Jameson Jamison Jarret Jarrett Jarvis Jemeson Jenkins Jennings Jernigan Jervis Jessup Johns Johnson Johnston Jolley Jonas Jones Jordan Judy Jurnigan Kahle Kaiger Karnes Karns Karr Kay Kayler Keffer Keith Keller Kelly Kelsey Kelso Kelson Kelsy Keltmaker Kemph Kenady Kennnedy Kennerly Kennet Kenney Kenny Kent Kepler Kerland Kerlin Kerr Keslar Kessler Key Keyes Keys Keyton Kidd Kiddy Kigar Kiger Kilburn Kile Kilpatrick Kincaid Kindig Kinear King Kingan Kigen Kinging Kinkade Kinkaide Kinnear Kirk Kirkpatrick Kirkwood Kirtz Kisor Kizer Kizzer Knicely Knick Koontz Krebs Kulp Kyles Kyser Labrie Lackey Lackland Lacy Lair Laird Lam Lamb Lambert Land Lane Langhorn Lanton Lants Lantz Larew Larkin Larkins Larue Latham Latshaw Laughlin Laurance Laurence Law Lawhorn Lawless Lawrence Lawson Layman Laymer Layton Leach Leahy Leamon Lear Leckey Lecky Leece Leech Leek Leese Leforge Leget Legget Leighton Lemon Lenmons Leopard Lepard Lessley Lessly Lester Letcher Letick Letshaw Lewis Leyburn Ligan Ligget Liggin Liggins Liggon Lilley Lilly Lindsay Link Linkswiler Linn Linsford Lipscomb Lipstrap Liptrap Litten Litteral Little Lloyd Lockard Lockett Lockhart Lockridge Lodon Logan Long Loop Lots Lotts Love Lovwell Lowe Lowe Lowman Lowry Lowther Lucas Ludwick Lunsford Lusj Lusk Luster Lydick Lyford Lyle Lynn Lyons

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Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850

Richard D. Stinnet & Mary Jane Carter Stinnet of Botetourt, Rockbridge & Goochland Counties

Richard D. Stinnet [1]. He was born on 01 Feb 1830 in Amherst, Virginia, USA[2]. He died on 24 Nov 1917 in Maidens, Goochland, Virginia, USA[2]. Burial on 26 Nov 1917 in Buchanan, Botetourt, Virginia, USA[2]. Cause of Death was bronchial pneumonia[2].

Richard and Mary were married by Lewis P. Fellers, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Fincastle, Virginia. They lived along Purgatory Creek, a few miles to the northeast of Buchanan in Botetourt County. Richard was an uneducated farm laborer who never learned to sign his name. The couple had at least seven children, three girls and four boys: Virginia, Emma Elizabeth, Ada W., John H., Richard Haden, Charles O. and Elmer Whitfield.

Richard served as a private in the Botetourt Artillery during the Civil War and was captured at the Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi on May 1, 1863. He was subsequently sent to prison in Alton, Illinois but was released during a prisoner exchange one month later. He then became a recruiter for the Confederate Army, stationed in Richmond, Virginia, and served until his unit disbanded.

The Stinnet family moved from the Buchanan area to Buffalo of Rockbridge County around 1880. By 1900 Richard and Mary were living with their son Richard in Maidens of Goochland County. The elder Richard was suffering from the infirmities of old age and had a weak back. He was unable to work and applied for a military pension in 1903.

Mary passed away before 1910 and Richard died from pneumonia in 1917. He was buried in Buchanan, presumably in Fairview Cemetery, but neither he nor Mary have a marker in that graveyard.

Mary Jane Carter is the daughter of Joseph Carter and Belsora Elizabeth Lavender[3]. She was born Nov 1838 in Botetourt, Virginia, USA[3, 4]. She died Bet. Jun 1900–Apr 1910[4, 5]. Richard D. Stinnet and Mary Jane Carter were married on 16 Feb 1854 in Botetourt, Virginia, USA[6].

Sources

1 - Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003), Database online. Buchanan, Botetourt, Virginia, post office Jackson, roll 1636, page 511, image 268.Record for Richard D Stinnet.

2 - Commonwealth of Virginia certificate of death (Bureau of Vital Statistics), Richard Stinet, 1917, 340-26783.

3 - Botetourt County, Virginia Marriage Register, 1853-1899, Stinnett-Carter entry, 1854, p. 23, ln. 24.

4 - Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004), Database online. Licking Hole, Goochland, Virginia, ED 16, roll T623 1710, page 7B. Record for Richard Stinett.

5 - Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006), Database online. Licking Hole, Goochland, Virginia, ED , roll T624_1629, part , page, Record for Richard Stinett.

6 - Botetourt County, Virginia Ministers' Returns, 1782-1854, Stinnet-Carter entry, 1854.

Drewry's Bluff, Richmond National Battlefield

I have been a little slow with posting lately. I have been playing with my wife's video camera and have not had much luck yet. There is something wrong with the battery so I cannot get it to record the video entries that I want to make. I have not given up on it yet so keep an eye out for videos coming soon.

We went to the Chesterfield Berry Farm today and picked strawberries. We ride out there twice each year, once for strawberries and once for pumpkins. It is a long drive but we always have a good time. They have good barbecue and beans so that alone makes it worth the trip!


I was going through some old pictures tonight and came across some that we took in July of 2003 at Drewry's Bluff, part of the Richmond National Battlefield. It was a major defensive position for the Confederates, being along a critical bend in the James River. There was an earthworks, a barracks and three large artillery guns to shoot at Union vessels.

I do not pretend to be an expert on the site. My main interest is that my wife's ancestor, Ansalem Clemens / Clemmens / Clements / Clemments / Clemons / Clemmons / Clemans / Clemmans ... you get the idea, well he supposedly died at that site. Family legend (and his wife's pension application) says that he was killed in battle on May 15, 1862 at Drewry's Bluff. My wife and I, she being seen in this photo aiming a large gun, went to the site to check it out. It is quite secluded, well back into the woods, and is not well travelled. We never saw another person for the two hours or so we were there.


The Richmond Dispatch from May 19, 1862 stated that "Bowyer’s battery, from Botetourt county, lost one man killed – George Clements – and three wounded." The name is not right but Ansalem was from Botetourt County and he was serving in their artillery unit.

To give you a little background, only days before this battle, the city of Norfolk had fallen to Union forces and the Confederates made a stand against the Union Navy, right here at the Bluff. They were able to hold off the Yankees, only a few miles from the Confederate capital!

We know that Ansalem died in this time period from estate records from Boteourt County, Virginia. Ansalem left $475 in the bank at Buchanan, Virginia. His wife was given one third, $107.89, and each of his ten children received $21.57. No mention was made of any funeral expenses. That leads me to believe that he was either buried on site or near by. I recently discovered that some of the Confederates that died at Drury's Bluff were buried at a church at Fort Darling.

I found this photo on the Internet of Confederate graves at the church. Its source was cited as "View of Confederate Church at Fort Darling—Graves in the foreground—Entrance to the Fort on the right. Gardner Stereo #1069. William Frank Browne - photographer. Negative at Library of Congress (LC-B815-1135)." The site I "borrowed" my copy from is a great source for Richmond Civil War history, you should check it out by clicking here: Civil War Richmond


In short, I am pretty sure that Ansalem was killed at Drury's Bluff when he was about sixty-years old. That sounds a little strange but not impossible. He was a stone mason by trade so perhaps his skills were used to help construct some of the structures at the site or maybe he was good at math and could help aim the artillery better. Who knows but his wife claims that he was there and the newspaper supports that a Clements died there during battle.




I want to go check out the site of this Confederate church but I have not made it over there yet. If anyone knows anything about the church or if it exists today, please share what you know with all of us.

Henry Headen Stinnett of Richmond, 1915-1980

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Thursday, October 2, 1980:
"HENRY STINNETT, CITY CONTRACTOR, DIES AT AGE 64 - Henry H. Stinnett, a general painting contractor in Richmond for 50 years, died yesterday at his home at 5623 Chamberlayne Ave. He was 64. He started working as a painter at age 14. Mr. Stinnett was born in Botetourt County and his family moved to Richmond when he was 4. He attended Richmond public schools. He was a sergeant in the Richmond Light Infantry Blues before World War II. During the war he served in the Marine Corps and was assigned as a painter in Riverside, Cal. Mr. Stinnett is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ollie K. Stinnett; a son, Cavell Wayne Stinnett of Richmond; five daughters, Mrs. Winnie Virginia Beadles, Mrs. Barbara Newman, Mrs. Rosa Golden, Miss Cora May Stinnett and Miss Tina Marie Stinnett, all of Richmond; a brother, Richard L. Stinnett of Clearwater, Fla.; and three half-sisters, Mrs. Cora Stinnett and Mrs. Gladys Lawhorn, both of Richmond, and Mrs. Debbie Carter of Virginia Beach. A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery."

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Thursday, October 2, 1980:
"STINNETT - Died at his residence, Wednesday, October 1, 1980, Henry H. (Bud) Stinnett, of 5623 Chamberlayne Ave. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ollie K. Stinnett; one son, Cavell Wayne Stinnett; five daughters, Mrs. Winnie Virginia Beadles, Mrs. Barbara Newman, Mrs. Rosa Golden, Miss Cora May Stinnett and Miss Tina Marie Stinnett; one step-son, Eugene Rousey; one brother, Richard L. Stinnett of Fla.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Debbie Carter of Virginia Beach, Mrs. Cora Stinnett, and Mrs. Gladys Lawhorne; ten grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three sons-in-law, Harold G. Beadles, Thomas M. Golden, John Henry Newman. His remains rest at the Joseph W. Bliley Funeral Home, . 3rd and Marshall, where a Christian Wake will be held Friday at 7 P.M. Funeral Mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Saturday 11 A.M. Interment Mt. Calvary."

Henry is buried in section 3A, lot 141 of Mount Calvary Cemetery in Richmond.