Brunswick County Civil War & Cemeteries

I received a helpful e-mail the other day about Brunswick County but I have been out of town and have not had time to respond. I thought about summarizing the e-mail here but, it was written so eloquently, I decided to post it directly.

"Hi Kevin -

I've been looking over your blog and have subscribed to feedburner RSS feed. There are a few resources you have pointed out that I did not know about for online research. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

I noticed that William Lett lived in the Brunswick County, VA, and just wanted to mention that there are a few companion websites for the book Civil War Soldiers of Brunswick County, Virginia that you may be interested in. The first is http://www.virginians.com which is run by the son and editor of the original author of the book, Dr. William M. Pritchett. I've found the book an excellent jumping off point for immediate information about the majority of residents during the early, mid, and late 19th century in Brunswick County, VA.

The second...associated site is http://www.brunswickcemeteries.org . This site has done a wonderful job of detailing the public, church, and family owned cemeteries, many with photos and the majority with dates of birth and death.

Keep up the good work.

Keith Kirkland"

Thanks Keith! I always appreciate when readers send in new resources. I knew about the Virginians site but not specifically about the Civil War book and I have never seen that cemetery site. I am going to add the cemetery link to my main Links section, for future reference.

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Civil War soldiers from Brunswick County, Virginia

Book Review: "Brunswick County Virginia Marriages 1750-1853" with Last Name Index N-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Brunswick County Virginia Marriages 1750-1853. Entries show both bride and groom's names, marriage bond date and sometimes witnesses, consents and other items of interest. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1988 original, contains 296 pages plus figures, appendices & fold-out map, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia. The early marriage records of this county do not begin until 1750. A total of 3,364 bonds have been transcribed covering the years 1750-1853. Also incorporated into these entries are ministers' returns whenever available.

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

Brunswick County marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

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:

"Perkins Joel & Lucy Jackson 27 Feb 1818; b - Green Jackson con - Ephraim Jackson, father wit - Green Jackson"
"Holderby Joseph & Lucy Brander 27 Jun 1797; b - John Jones min - Hubbard Saunders - 6 Jul 1797"

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

Nance Nancy Nanney Nanny Nash Neal Neale Neblett Newman Newsom Newsome Newsom Newton Niblett Nichols Nicholson Niel Nipper Niverson Noble Nobles Nolley Nolly Norris North Northington Norward Nunnally Oast Ogborne Ogburn Oldham Oliver Orgain Oslin Osmore Overby Ovwens Owens Ozmar Pace Pain Palmer Parham Parish Parker Parks Parrish Parsons Patterson Pattillo Paup Payne Paynor Peace Pearcey Pearcy Pearson Peebles Pegram Pelham Penick Penn Pennington Penticost Pepper Percevall Percivall Perkerson Perkins Perkinson Perry Person Persons Peterson Petillo Pettit Pettway Pettypool Phenix Philips Philipson Phillips Phipps Phoenix Pierce Piercy Pilkington Pinner Pitman Pittello Plunkett Poindexter Pollard Pool Porch Porsell Porter Potts Powell Power Powers Poythress Preston Price Pride Prince Pritchett Proch Proctor Pryor Pucey Puckett Pulliam Purdy Purkins Purkinson Puryear Putney Quarles Quinester Rachel Rachell Ragland Ragsdale Raines Rainey Ramsey Randle Randolph Raney Rash Rattenburg Ravescroft Rawling Rawlings Ray Read Reade Reaves Redding Reekes Reese Reid Reives Rhea Rhodes Rice Richardson Riddick Rideout Ridley Ridout Riece Rieves Rivers Rives Roberd Robertson Roberts Robertson Robins Robinson Rodgers Rogers Rollins Rook Roper Rose Ross Rosser Rouse Rowell Rowlett Ruffin Russel Russell Rylan Sadler Sakllkard Salmon Samford Sammonds Sammons Sanby Sanders Sanford Santy Sasem Saunders Scarborough Scarbrough Scoggin Scoggins Scott Seawell Sedberry Selden Seward Sexton Seymore Seymour Shadborne Shaperson Sharp Shelburne Shell Shelton Shepperson Ship Short Sills Simmons Simms Simpson Sims Singleton Skinner Slate Sledge Smiley Smily Smith Snead Sneed Southall Spain Speaks Spears Speed Speers Spencer Spicely Spilman Spurlock Stainback Stamper Standley Stanley Starke Steagall Steed Steele Stegal Steward Stewart Stith Stokes Stone Stradford Strange Stroud Stuart Sturdivant Sugett Suggett Suggitt Sykes Talley Tally Tanner Tansil Tarpley Tarver Tarwater Tatem Tatum Taylor Tazewell Temple Tensblum Thacker Theresta Thomas Thomason Thompson Thomson Thornton Threadgill Threat Thrift Thrower Thweatt Tilley Tillman Tilman Tinsbloom Tisdale Tomlinson Traylor Trice Trotter Tucker Tudor Tuell Turbefield Turbefill Tuberfill Turbeville Turbiville Turbyfill Turnbill Turner Twitty Tyus Underhill Upchurch Ussery Vaden Valentine Vallentine Vaughan Verell Vick Vincent Vines Wade Wainwright Walker Wall Wallace Waller Wallon Walton Walpole Walthall Walton Ward Warden Warmsley Warnock Warren Wartman Warwick Wasdol Washingtob Washington Watkins Watson Watts Weatherby Weathers Weaver Webb Wells Wesson West Westmoreland Whealer Wheeler Wheeller Whitaker Whitbey Whitby White Witechurch Whitehead Whitley Whitlock Whitt Whittemore Whittington Wilborne Wilburn Wilkenson Wilkerson Wilkes Wilkeson Wilkins Wilkinson Wilks Williams Williamson Willis Wills Willson Wilson Wiltshire Windham Winfield Winn Withers Wolff Womack Woodlief Woodroof Woodrough Woodruff Woodson Woodward Woolsey Worsham Wortham Worthington Wray Wren Wrenn Wright Wyatt Wyche Wynn Wynne Yargen Yates Yeargan Yeargin Young Zachary Zimmer

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

Brunswick County marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

Book Review: "Brunswick County Virginia Marriages 1750-1853" with Last Name Index A-M

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Brunswick County Virginia Marriages 1750-1853. Entries show both bride and groom's names, marriage bond date and sometimes witnesses, consents and other items of interest. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1988 original, contains 296 pages plus figures, appendices & fold-out map, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia. The early marriage records of this county do not begin until 1750. A total of 3,364 bonds have been transcribed covering the years 1750-1853. Also incorporated into these entries are ministers' returns whenever available.

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

Brunswick County marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

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:

"Perkins Joel & Lucy Jackson 27 Feb 1818; b - Green Jackson con - Ephraim Jackson, father wit - Green Jackson"
"Holderby Joseph & Lucy Brander 27 Jun 1797; b - John Jones min - Hubbard Saunders - 6 Jul 1797"

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

Abernathy Adams Addams Adkins Adkinson Aldridge Alexander Allen Alley Allgood Allmand Anderson Anderton Andrews Andrus Archer Arnold Arrington Asselin Astrop Atkerson Atkins Atkinson Atkison Avenhunt Avent Averett Avery Babbitt Baber Bacon Bagley Bagwell Bailey Baird Baker Balentine Ball Ballentine Ballinger Balthrop Banks Baram Barham Barker Barner Barnes Barnett Barrow Bartlett Barton Bass Batte Baugh Beard Beasley Beck Beckwith Bedingfield Beicher Bell Bennett Bentley Bernard Berry Berryman Berthright Berton Beshears Bethshirse Bethshurs Betty Biggs Bilbo Bilingsby Billops Billups Birch Birchett Bird Birdsong Birthright Bishop Bithshears Blackwell Blake Blalock Blanch Bland Blank Blankenship Blanks Blick Blood Blunt Bolling Bonner Booth Boswell Bott Bottom Bowen Bowles Boysian Bozeman Bracey Bradley Bragg Branch Brand Brander Brann Brans Branscomb Brantley Brantly Brasington Braswell Braten Brent Brewer Bridge Bridgeforth Bridges Bridgforth Briggs Brigs Brintle Britt Britton Broadnax Broadnex Brock Brooking Brooks Browder Brown Bruce Bryan Bryson Buchannan Buckley Buckner Buford Bugg Burch Burchett Burdge Burford Burge Burks Burnett Burrow Burton Burwell Butler Butterill Butts Bryne Byrum Cabaness Cabiness Cain Callahan Callas Callis Cammel Camp Campbell Canady Cannady Cannon Capel Cardwell Cargill Carlos Carloss Carpenter Carrell Arrington Carroll Carter Cary Cash Cashon Cate Cates Cato Cattlen Cattles Caudle Cauze Cave Cealey Celey Chambers Chambless Chambliss Chandler Chapman Charles Chavous Cheatham Cheely Childers Chiles Christian Christopher Clack Clagy Claiborne Clanton Clark Clarke Clary Clay Claybrook Clayton Cleaton Clemens Clements Clemons Clough Cocke Coe Cocely Cole Coleman Coley Collier Collins Conally Conley Connally Connell Connelly Connolly Constable Converse Coocey Cook Cooke Cooksey Cooper Coppedge Cordle Cotton Courtney Cousins Cox Craft Crawley Crenshaw Crichton Cristie Crittenden Crittenton Croft Crook Cross Crow Crowder Cryer Cullan Cumming Curd Curtis Dailey Daily Daley Daly Dameron Damron Dance Dancey Dandridge Daniel Danman Dautrey Davenport Davie Davis Davy Dawson Day Dean Deane Dearden Deckers Delany Delbirdge Delbridge Delehay Delong Dennis Denton Depriest Derby Dever Dick Dickerson Dicks Dickson Dillon Dismang Dismay Dismong Dixon Dobbins Douglas Doyal Doyle Drake Driscoll Dromgoole Drummond Drumright Duane Duggar Dugger Dunkley Dunkly Dunn Dunnington Dunnivant Dunwell Dupree Dupriest Dupuy Durham Eanes Early Easter Eaton Eaves Eddins Edmondson Edmons Edmunds Edwards Elder Eldridge Ellice Elliott Ellis Elmore Embrey Embry Emmery Ennis Enroughty Epes Epperson Eppes Epps Etta Evans Eves Exell Fann Farler Farlow Farmer Feason Featherston Feild Fenn Fennell Ferguson Ferrell Field Fielding Fields Finch Finix Firth Fisher Fitzhugh Flax Fleshood Fletcher Flinn Floyd Forguson Fort Foster Fowler Fowlkes Fowlks Fox Fraser Frear Freeman Frisbie Furgason Furgerson Furguson Gargus Garland Garner Garrett Garriss Gary Gee George Gholson Gibbon Gibbons Gibbs Gibs Giles Gill Gilliam Glandish Glidewell Golley Goode Goodrich Goodrum Goodwin Goodwyn Goodwyne Gordan Gordon Grain Grammer Granger Grant Graves Gray Grayson Green Greene Greenhill Gregg Gregory Gresham Grey Griffies Griffin Griffith Grigg Grigory Grimes Grubbs Grubs Gunn Hackley Hagood Hailey Haldane Haley Hall Halsey Hamblett Hamilton Hamlett Hamlin Hammack Hammock Hammon Hammoonds Hammonds Hammons Hamour Hampton Hancock Hancocke Hanks Hanner Hardaway Hardie Harding Hardy Hargrove Harp Harper Harrington Harris Harrison Hart Hartwell Harvey Harwell Haskins Hatch Hathcock Hawkins Hawks Hawthorn Hawthorne Hay Hayes Haymore Haymour Haynes Hearn Heartwell Heath Hermon Hestens Hickman Hicks Higgins High Hight Hightower Hill Hilliard Hines Hinton Hitchcock Hite Hix Hobbs Hodge Hogan Hogwood Hoisington Holderby Holloway Holmes Holt Hood House Houze Howard Howell Howerton Howse Howze Hoy Hubbard Huckstep Hudgins Hudson Huff Huffman Hulmn Hungerford Hunnicut Hunnicutt Hunt Hunter Hurt Huskey Husky Hutchins Hutt Hyde Ingram Ingrum Irby Irwin Ives Ivey Ivie Ivy Jacksob Jackson James Jameson Jarrett Jarrott Jeffes Jenkins Jennings Jesse Jeter Jett Jinkins Johnsob Johnson Johnston Jolley Jolly Jones Jordan Jordon Judd Justice Keatt Keatts Kelley Kelly Kemp Kennady Kennedy Kenny Kerby Kick Kidd King Kirby Kirk Kirkland Kirks Koy Ladd Laffon Laffoon Lafoon Laird Lamband Lambert Lane Langton Lanier Laniwl Lashley Lashly Laskey Latimer Lattimore Lawler Lawrence Lawson Leach Leadbetter Ledbetter Lee Leigh Lenoir Lester Lett Lewellin Lewelling Lewis Lightfoot Lilley Lilly Linch Lind Lloyd Lloyod Locke Lockett Loftin Love Loyd Lucas Lucey Lucy Lundie Lundsford Lundy Lunsford Lyall Lyell Lynch Lyons Mabry Mackenney Macklin Maclin Macon Maddox Maddux Madison Magee Maghee Maidland Mairs Maitland Major Mallory Malone Mangum Manley Manly Mann Manney Manning Manson Marable Mares Marke Marks Marrable Marshall Martin Martins Maryman Mason Massenburg Massey Mateer Matheny Mathews Mathis Maton Matthews Matthis May Mays Mayton McCan McConnico McCullick McCulloch McDaniel McInvale McKenney McKenny McRoberts Meacham Meade Mealer Meanley Meanly Medlin Melone Melton Meredith Merrett Merriott Merritt Mikeal Miller Mills Milton Miner Minge Minor Miskell Mitchell Mize Mizes Montgomery Moody Moon Moore More Moreland Morenor Morgan Morris Morrison Morriss Morse Moseley Mosely Mosley Moss Murdock Murphy Murrell Mustron Myrick

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Brunswick County marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

John Lett of Brunswick County, will dated 1786

Brunswick County, Virginia Will Book #5, page 191:
"In the name of God amen I John Lett of the County of Brunswick and Parish of Meherrin being very sick and weak but of perfect sound and disposing mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the following manner. My soul I give to God who gave it being hoping through the merits of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and with regard to the worldly goods it hath pleased God to bestow on me I dispose of in the manner following. Imprimis it is my desire that all my just debts be paid and that my body be decently interred according to the discretion of my executors. Item I leave unto my loving wife Jean Lett during her life or widowhood the following slaves: Harry, Charles, fellows Phillis, Amy, Nan and Hannah and after my wife's death it is my desire that they may be divided as follows. Item I give unto my son in law Edward Winfield, Amy and Hannah and to his heirs and assigns forever. Item I give unto my daughter in law Mary Jordan, Charles and Phillis and to her heirs and assigns forever. Item I give unto my daughter in law Martha Walker, Harry and Nan and to her heirs and assigns forever. Item I give and bequeath unto my sister Frankie Lett two Negroes named Violett & Judah and to her heirs and assigns forever. Those two Negroes to remain on the plantation until the present crops finished. Item I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Jean Lett all of my stock of cattle, horses, hogs, sheep also all the plantation materials, also all the household and kitchen furniture of what kind or make so ever to her own disposal also the crop at present on the ground. I do constitute and appoint my friends Henry Walker and John Jordan executors of this my last will & testament declaring this to be my last and revoking and annulling all those by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of September Domini Anno Domi one thousand seven hundred and eighty six. John Lett. Signed, sealed, published and declared in the presence (of) Allen Love, Benjamin Walker.

Brunswick County court the 22nd day of January 1787. This will was proved by the oath of Benjamin Walker a witness thereto, who also swore that he saw Allen Love the other witness thereto, who is since dead subscribe his name as such in the presence of the testator and ordered to be recorded And on the motion of Henry Walker one of the executors therein named who made oath thereto according to law. Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. Ex. Teste."

Brunswick County, Virginia Will Book #5, page 200:
On March 7, 1787 an inventory and appraisal of John's estate was submitted to the court by Benjamin Harrison, Jr., Zachariah Floyed and Charles Collier. Its total value was given as 543 pounds, 10 shillings and 3 pence. Included in his estate were the Negroes mentioned in his will as well as a desk, a looking glass, a gun, several household and kitchen items, two horses, twenty-two head of cattle, other animals including sheep and hogs, two saddles, a parcel of books, wearing apparel including shoe and knee buckles and many planation tools including two slays with harnesses and one cart.

Brunswick County, Virginia Will Book #5, page 251:
On July 28, 1788 Henry Walker, executor returned into court an accounts current for John's estate which was prepared by John Sturdivant, George Malone and Charles Collier. The estate paid debts to the following: Robert Lanier, Edward Burchett, William Lindsey, Thomas Malone, Edward Walker, Zachariah Floyed, Nathaniel Wray, Benjamin Ivy, Sr., the Sheriff of Brunswick County, Robert Turnbull, Robert Watson, the granary and the Brunswick County court for proving his will. John's estate was also required to pay for various items purchased such as shoe thread, four bushels of salt, seven yards of linen, four gallons of rum, fish, a coffin, twenty-five pounds of flour, sugar and also several debts for finishing his current tobacco crop. It seems that John may have been a merchant due to the large amount of bulk items he had purchased. He also owed money for carrying tobacco across a bridge. After all expenses were paid they totaled 71 pounds, 4 shillings and 7 1/2 pence. The estate was also owed or had equity totaling 81 pounds, 6 shilling and 11 3/4 pence from Petersburg tobacco, potato plantings, two pairs of leather shoes, cash owed by John Wardrop, cash on hand, tobacco on hand and other such articles. In all the estate was ahead 10 pounds, 2 shillings and 4 1/4 pence after it was settled.

William Lett of Brunswick County, will dated 1885

Brunswick County, Virginia Will Book #21, page 426:
"I William Lett, of Brunswick County, Virginia, being this day of a mind and memory sufficient to decide for myself and dispose of my estate real and personal, I do therefore make this my last will and testament. I will first state I did heretofore make my will and place it in the hands of Robert D. Turnbull to keep during my life, and having received information that the said will is lost or misplaced, I make this my last will and testament. I give and bequeath to E. M. Harris in fee simple all of my estate, real and persona, except as hereafter mentioned. I give to William Lett Harris $2,000.00 in money out of my estate to educate and prepare him for a physician and also the portion of land which I have before told E. M. Harris should be his, and which I desire E. M. Harris to cut off and assign to the said William Lett Harris. Now I make this my will to the exclusion of all that would be my heirs. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal this the third day of February one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five. William Lett. Witness: A. J. Braswell, William H. Stark, S. J. Moseley.

Brunswick County Court. October Term 1885. A writing purporting the last will and testament of William Lett bearing date on the 3rd day of February 1885 was this day again produced in Court by E. M. Harris and the said E. M. Harris as the next friend of William Lett Harris an infant, by council, in order to be proved, and Addie Eliza, Myra Lee, Viola Mertice, Minnie Florence, Annie Ethel and Wildie Lett Pitchford, infants by Charles E. May, their guardian ad litern it appeared by council and opposed the proof of the said will, both parties waving a jury. Whereupon diverse witnesses were sworn and examined, and the deposition of W. D. Elam and other papers read, and the parties aforesaid by their council fully heard; On consideration whereof it is the opinion of the Court that the said William Lett, deceased at the time of executing the writing aforesaid, was of sound and disposing mind and memory and was under no undue influence. And W. H. Starke and R. J. Braswell two of the subscribing witnesses to said writing, having testified in Court that the said William Lett signed and published the same in their presence, and in the presence of Samuel J. Mosely, the other subscribing witness, all being present, together, as and for his last will and testament, that they subscribed their names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the testator, and at his request, and that the said testator was of sound sense and memory as far as they knew and believed. It is ordered that the said writing be recorded as the last will and testament of the said William Lett deceased. And on the motion of E. M. Harris, administration with the will annexed upon the estate of the said William Lett, is granted to R. Turnbull, who qualified and gave bond in the penalty of $15,000.00 with E. M. Harris as his security and conditioned according to law. Certificate is granted him for obtaining letters of administration on said estate in due form. Teste. R. Turnbull, Clerk.

(The following two pieces of information were recorded in Warren County, North Carolina.)
State of Virginia. Brunswick County, to wit: I G. R. Mulley, Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the last will and testament of William Lett, deceased, the original of which is now on file in my office. And I do further certify that the certificate attached thereto is a true copy of the County Court of said County, admitting the said will to probate, and ordering the same to be recorded as the true last will and testament of said William Lett deceased. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 11th day of February AD, 1895.

North Carolina, Warren County. Superior Court, November 9th, 1895. Before William A. White, Clerk of said Court. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court from the duly certified copy of the last will and testament of William Lett, deceased, which has been proved and exhibited before the Court, that the said will has been duly proved and (?) and allowed according to the laws of the State of Virginia. It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said will and its probate in the proper Court of the County of Brunswick and State of Virginia, which has been produced and exhibited here, duly certified, be allowed, filed and recorded in this Court. William A. White, C.S.C."

Book Review: "Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853" with Last Name Index N-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853, 174 pages, appendices, figure, chart and map. Lunenburg County was created in 1746 from a portion of Brunswick County. 2,435 marriage records are reflected in the current volume. They are drawn from a variety of primary sources, including copies of typed bonds in the county court house (the original bonds are missing), scattered ministers' returns in will and deed books, and microfilm records in the Virginia State Library, Archives Division. Two appendices provide a date frequency and a listing of all ministers reporting returns. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1988 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:

Lunenburg County Marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

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:

• "Callis Pamelia F & Samuel W Oslin 17 Apr 1843; b - Gary Thompson min - John C Blackwell - 21 Apr 1843"
• "Rainey Francis & Cissly M Gee 8 Jan 1847; date approximate min - Daniel Petty - from return list dated 8 Feb 1847"

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

Nance Nash Neal Neathery Neblett Neele Nelson Neville Nevils Newbill Newby Niblett Nolley Norment Northington Norvell Nunnally Nunnerly Ogburn Old Oldham Oliver Ombs Oon Orgain Osborne Oslin Overby Overton Overtrhow Owen Page Palmer Palmore Pamplin Pampton Parham Parish Parker Parmer Parrish Parrott Parsons Patterson Patteson Pattillo Paylor Peace Pearcey Pearcy Pearson Pease Peaseley Peebles Pegram Penick Penn Pennington Peoples Perkerson Perkins Peterson Petteford Pettipool Pettus Petty Pettypool Pewett Phebe Philbeard Philips Phillips Pierce Piercy Pike Pilkinton Pillar Pinnel Pitman Poindexter Pointer Pollard Pollock Pool Popham Portwood Potter Poultney Powel Powell Powers Prewit Price Pride Priest Pritchett Procise Pryor Puckett Pugh Puller Pulley Pulliam Pully Pyle Queesberry Radford Ragsdale Rainey Ramsey Rand Randolph Raney Rash Rawlins Read Reams Reaves Redford Redman Redmon Redmond Reese Rhodes Richards Richardson Richie Riggin Riggins Riggons Rigigett Ritchee Rivers Roach Roads Roberts Robertson Robins Robinson Rodgers Roe Rogers Rose Ross Roslett Royall Ruckes Rucks Rudd Rudder Russell Rutherford Rutledge Rux Ryan Ryland Sadler Sale Samford Sammons Sanders Sands Sandys Saterfield Satterfield Satterwhile Saunders Scarbery Scarbrough Scire Scoggin Scot Scott Seamore Seay Sewal Shackelton Sharp Shaw Sheered Sheffield Shelborn Shelborne Shelburn Shelburne Shell Shelor Shelton Sheneberry Ship Shorter Shule Sikes Silts Simmons Sinclair Singleton Sire Skelton Skinner Slaughter Smith Smithson Snead Somerville Sowon Spain Sparks Spencer Stainback Stanback Stanley Staples Steagall Stegar Stembridge Stephenson Sterne Stevenson Steward Stewart Stokes Stone Stout Strange Street Sturdivant Sullivant Summers Swansberry Sweeney Swepstone Sydnor Syme Tabb Talbert Talley Tally Talor Tankersley Tanner Tarpley Tarry Tatom Tatum Taylor Terry Thacker Thackleton Thackston Thaxton Thomas Thompson Thornton Threatt Thrift Throckmorton Tisdale Todd Tomberlinson Tombs Tomlinson Toombs Toone Towers Towler Townsend Traynum Trotter Tubbyville Tucker Tunstall Tunstill Turleyfield Turner Turpin Twitty Ussery Vaden Valentine Vandyke Vaughan Venable Verser Vincent Vuahgan Wade Wagstaff Walker Wall Wallace Waller Walthall Walton Ward Warner Warren Washband Watkins Watson Watts Weakly Weatherford Weaver Webb Wells Welshe Westbrook Westmoreland Whalepool White Whitehead Whitlock Whitten Whittle Whitworth Wiggleworth Wilborn Wilkerson Wilkes Wilkins Wilkinson Wilks Willard Williams Williamson Willis Willmut Wills Willson Wilmoth Wilson Wimbish Winfree Winn Winningham Wionn Wise Witt Womack Wommack Wood Woodward Wooding Woodson Wooton Wootton Worsham Wrenn Wright Wriglesworth Wyatt Wynn Yancey Yarbrough Yates Young Zachary Zackary

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

Lunenburg County Marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

Book Review: "Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853" with Last Name Index A-M

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Lunenburg County, Virginia Marriages 1750-1853, 174 pages, appendices, figure, chart and map. Lunenburg County was created in 1746 from a portion of Brunswick County. 2,435 marriage records are reflected in the current volume. They are drawn from a variety of primary sources, including copies of typed bonds in the county court house (the original bonds are missing), scattered ministers' returns in will and deed books, and microfilm records in the Virginia State Library, Archives Division. Two appendices provide a date frequency and a listing of all ministers reporting returns. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1988 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:

Lunenburg County Marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

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:

• "Callis Pamelia F & Samuel W Oslin 17 Apr 1843; b - Gary Thompson min - John C Blackwell - 21 Apr 1843"
• "Rainey Francis & Cissly M Gee 8 Jan 1847; date approximate min - Daniel Petty - from return list dated 8 Feb 1847"

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

Abernathy Abrham Adams Addams Adin Aiken Aikins Aikins Akin Alday Alderson Alexander Allen Alling Almond Alston Ambrose Ames Amos Anders Anderson Andrews Apperson Arms Armstrong Arnold Arvin Ashley Ashworth Atkins Atkinson Atwell Averett Averitt Avory Bacon Bagley Bailey Baines Baker Baldwin Ballard Banks Barksdale Barnes Barrow Barry Bartlett Barton Basbeck Bass Bates Batte Baugh Bayne Beach Bearick Bears Beaseley Beasley Bedford Beevers Belcher Bell Bellsher Bennett Bentley Bently Bethel Betts Beverley Beverly Bevis Biasse Bigger Billups Bing Birchett Bird Bishop Black Blackwell Blagrave Blagrove Blake Blankenship Blankinship Blanks Blanton Blunt Bohannon Bolling Booker Booth Boothe Borum Bose Boswell Bouldin Bowen Bowers Boze Brackett Bradley Bradshaw Bragg Brame Brammer Branagin Branch Brasel Breedlove Brent Bride Bridgeforth Brim Brindle Brinkle Brintle Brizentine Broadnax Broadway Brooks Browder Brown Brubb Bruce Brummer Bryant Brydie Buck Buckhannon Buchnall Buckner Buford Bugg Bullard Burge Burke Burke Burks Burnett Burnette Burton Burwell Bush Buster Butler Byars Byasse Byassee Byesee Byng Cabaness Cabaniss Cabiness Cain Calaham Caldwell Calib Callaham Calliham Callihan Callis Cameron Cammel Camp Campbell Cantalou Cardegill Cargill Carlton Carreer Carrington Carrol Carroll Carter Carver Caudil Caudle Cavender Cayce Chambers Chandler Chaney Chapman Chappell Chavens Chavers Chaves Cheaney Cheany Cheatham Chickley Chishom Chitton Christian Christopher Chumley Chumney Clabourn Cladwell Claiborne Clardy Clark Clarke Claughtoin Clay Clayton Clements Cleuverius Cobb Cocke Cockerham Cole Coleman Collier Collins Colly Colter Comer Connell Conner Cook Cooskey Cooper Cordle Cotter Couch Cousins Covington Cowan Cow Crafton Craghead Craig Craighead Cralle Craven Crawley Creath Creathe Crenshaw Crews Crittenden Cross Crow Crowder Crowe Crymes Cully Cumby Cunningham Cureton Cuttaloe Dabbs Dacux Dagnal Dagnall Dailey Dalton Daly Dance Daniel Dardin Davidson Davies Davis Day Dayley Degraffenreid Degraffenreidt Dedman Degraffenreid Deminan Denkens Denton Depriest Deshazor Dickes Dicks Dickson Dillingham Dixon Dizmang Dobbin Dobbins Dobbyns Dodd Dodson Doggett Doke Dowdy Dowsing Dozer Dozier Drake Dreskill Dudley Dunevant Duniman Dunman Dunn Dunnavant Dupree Eagles Earl Early East Eastham Echols Eckles Eddings Edmonds Edmondson Edmund Edmunds Edmundson Edwards Eggleston Egleton Elam Elder Eldor Eldridge Ellet Ellington Elliott Ellis Elmore Embry Epes Epperson Eppes Epps Erambert Erskine Esters Estes Eubank Evans Evens Falcon Fallin Farguson Farler Farley Farmer Farrar Farriss Fears Featherston Ferrell Figg Filbert Filbird Filboid Finch Fisher Fitzwilson Flinn Flipping Flournoy Floyd Ford Foster Fowles Franklin Freeman Frost Fulilove Fuqua Gafford Gaines Gallion Gandy Garland Garner Garratt Garrett Garrott Gary Gasquet Gaulding Gayle Gee Geers George Gill Gillet Gilliam Gillium Glascock Glasson Glen Glenn Gober Goin Gooch Goode Goodwin Goodwyn Goodwyne Gordon Gosee Gossee Graham Granger Grant Grear Green Gregg Gregory Griffin Grimes Grisham Guantney Gunn Gurney Gwatney Gwin Hailey Haines Haley Haly Hamblin Hamlet Hamlett Hamlin Hammock Hammonds Hammonds Hammons Hampton Haney Hankin Hankins Hanks Hann Hansbrough Hardie Harding Hardrick Hardwick Hardwicke Hardwood Hardy Harper Harris Harrison Harvey Harvy Harwood Haskins Hastin Hastings Hatchet Hatchett Hatchitt Hawkes Hawkins Hawthorn Hawthorne Hayes Haymore Haynes Hays Hazelwood Hazlewood Heath Hendrick Henry Herring Hicks Hight Hightower Hill Hilton Hines Hitchens Hitchings Hitchins Hite Hix Hobson Holmes Holt Hood Hoomes Hooper Hopkins Howard Hubbard Huddlestone Hudgin Hudgins Hudson Hughes Huling Hull Hundley Hunnicut Hurt Hutcherson Hutchinson Inge Ingram Innes Insco Irby Irvine Isbell Jackson Jameson Jarrett Jarrott Jefferson Jeffress Jenkins Jennings Jeter Johns Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Jusco Justice Justis Kearsey Keats Keeling Keesee Keeth Keeton Kelly Key King Kirk Kirkland Knight Knott Lacey Ladd Laffoon Lamb Lambert Lamkin Lampkin Landrom Landrum Lanier Lawrence Lay Legrand Lee Lefoe Lemay Leonard Lertie Lester Lett Lewis Ligon Lipscomb Lock Locke Lockhead Logan Loury Love Lowery Lowry Lucas Lynch MacCaden MacKan Macan Maddox Maddux Mallery Mallory Malone Maloney Manley Manly Manson Marable Marr Marron Marrow Marshall Martin Mason Mathes Mathews Matthew Matthews Matthis Maury Maxey May Mayes Mayton McAlister McCargo McClaughlin McConico McConnico McCraw McCutcheon McCutcheson McFarland McIntire McKee McKenney McKie McKinney McLaughlin McMachen McQuaid McQuie Meadows Meanley Meanly Middleton Miller Mills Minor Mitchell Mize Mohorn Monday Monroe Moody Moon Moor Moore More Moreton Morgain Morgan Moring Moriset Morris Morrison Mosby Moseley Moses Moss Mount Mourning Mullins Munday Murrell Murrill

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Lunenburg County Marriages, 1750-1853 (Virginia historic marriage register)

Family Tree Maker 2008 is breaking my heart – a little

Family Tree Maker 2008 is breaking my heart – a little. I want to use it and I even volunteered to be a beta tester. The program should be great but I just cannot get into it. I cannot get excited about the new format for a few reasons, none of which have to do with bugs or errors with the program. I think the software engineers have ironed out most of the problems but I cannot get over the feel of it. I just do not feel comfortable with the program yet and do not know if I will ever feel good about it.

When I used to sit down with Family Tree Maker 16, I could burn through a stack of documents to enter within an hour or two. Family Tree Maker 2008 is so complicated, or maybe detailed is a better word, that it takes five times as long to get anything done. I find myself spending more time entering data than I actually spent at the archives looking for the stuff!

There are so many screens to enter data, sometimes the same information in more than one spot. I feel like I have to be diligent and enter everything but there is so much stuff! If you scan and document the source, the repository, the actual data and maybe a media item, you just spent an hour. That would take only a few minutes in FTM 16.

With FTM 16, things went faster because the layout was simple. I could use the tab and alt keys to jump all over the screen with little effort. It is as if FTM 2008 gives you too many options and I am overwhelmed.

Don’t get me wrong, I love FTM 2008. I think it is a great program, and it is probably the future of genealogy, but it is dense. I am a young guy – only 30 – and I consider myself to be pretty computer savvy. I know that older, less computer-literate individuals have got to be having a hard time with it.

I have honestly lost interest in genealogy over the past few months, largely because of FTM 2008. It is so bulky and slow, I dread sitting down and spending hours with it. I probably have not touched it in over a month. I hate to go back to FTM 16 because I have made changed to my file in FTM 2008 that will not go backward. I am almost stuck with 2008 now and that is somewhat depressing.

I think I am going to try and give it another shot in the next few days. One evening, after the wife and kids go to bed, I will pull out a few documents and maybe time myself on how long they take to enter. I am honesty in a funk right now and have almost no interest in even trying. I wish I could find a document that I have been looking for a long time, something to stimulate my interest again...Does anyone out there have a copy of Francis Lett’s will from Brunswick or Mecklenburg County, Virginia? As far as I know, it does not exist, but that might re-spark my interest enough to give FTM 2008 another try.

Query - Lemuel B. Hill born about 1809-10

Here is a query I got from one of our mailing list members. If you know anything about these folks, please leave a comment about them.

"My Great-Great Grandfather Lemuel B. Hill was born in Virginia about 1809-10. I am trying to find his parents. Possibilities are Hartwell Hill from Brunswick County, Virginia or a Charles Hill who was involved with trade with the native people."