Pendleton County, West Virginia Genealogy

United States West Virginia  Pendleton County

County Courthouse
Pleasants County 301 Court Lane #101 Saint Mary's, WV 26170 304-684-3542


 * County Clerk has birth, marriage, death, and probate records from 1853
 * Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records

Parent County
1787--Pendleton County was created 4 December 1787 from Augusta, Hardy and Rockingham Counties (Virginia). County seat: Franklin

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Pendleton County boundary changes.

Neighboring Counties

 * Augusta County, Virginia
 * Grant
 * Hardy
 * Highland County, Virginia
 * Pocahontas
 * Randolph
 * Rockingham County, Virginia
 * Tucker

Census
 LDS Ward and Branch Records

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 * Franklin
 * Zigler

Genealogy

 * [Cunningham] Harter, Mary. "James Cunningham of Western Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1985):9-16. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Harper] Rutherford, William Kenneth and Anna Clay Rutherford. Genealogical History of Our Ancestors. Revised Edition. 2 vols. Lexington, Mo., 1977..
 * [Skidmore] Skidmore, Warren. Thomas Skidmore (Scudamore), 1605-1684, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and Fairfield, Connecticut; His Ancestors and His Descendants to the Ninth Generation. 1980. ; 1985 edition: ; 1998 edition:.
 * [Van Deventer] Vandevander, Paul J. and Ida Christobelle Van Deventer. The Van Deventer Family, 1550-1977. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Print. Co., 1978..
 * [Van Deventer] Arthaud, John Bradley and Catherine DeEtte Arthaud. The Mary Coberly and William Van Deventer Family of Pendleton and Randolph Counties, West Virginia, An Annotated Index to Paul J. Vandevander's The Van Deventer Family 1550-1977. Columbia, Mo., 1988..

Maps
Map of 1850 Virginia and West Virginia

Military

Revolutionary War

 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books. 1967 reprint: . [See Virginia, Western District, Pendleton County on page 135.]
 * Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." ; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]

West Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865

NATURALIZATION
West Virgina, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991 Newspapers

Probate
West Virginia Will Books

Research Guides

 * "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Pendleton County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1976):119-123. ; digital version at American Ancestors ($).

Taxation
How can West Virginia tax lists help me?


 * 1792, 1802 - Images of the 1792 and 1802 Personal Property Tax Lists of Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia) are available to browse online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * 1815 -Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. . [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Pendleton County is included in Vols. 5 and 6.]

Vital Records
Church

Societies and Libraries
Pendleton County Historical Society

Main Street

Franklin, West Virginia 26807

Family History Centers 


 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Franklin West Virginia Family History Center

Web Sites


http://www.cyndislist.com/us/wv

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