Logan County, West Virginia Genealogy

Logan County
	Logan County, West Virginia
	Map
	; Location in the state of West Virginia
	; Location of West Virginia in the U.S.
	Facts
Founded	1824
County Seat	Logan
	Courthouse

United States West Virginia Logan County

County Courthouse

Logan County Courthouse
300 Stratton Street
Logan, WV 25601
Phone: 304-792-8550
Fax 304-792-8600

County Clerk has birth, marriage and death records from 1872, burial, probate, land and military records. Circuit Clerk, had divorce, court records and naturalization records^[1]

History

Parent County

1824--Logan County was created 12 January 1824 from Cabell (now West Virginia), Kanawha (now West Virginia), Giles and Tazewell Counties (Virginia). County seat: Logan ^[2]

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Logan County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Blair, West Virginia :Chapmanville, West Virginia :Man, West Virginia :The Omar Project;
Logan County Towns

Neighboring Counties

Resources

The best place to get started tracing your Logan County ancestors is Logan County Recreated. ALL the families that lived in the area between the 1850s and the 1870s.^[3] His database is available through FamilySearch Community Trees.

Cemeteries

There is a list of cemeteries on Logan County, West Virginia Cemeteries
Find A Grave Logan County
Logan County Tombstone Inscriptions
Funeral Homes in Logan, West Virginia
Political Graveyard - Logan County, West Virginia

Census

For tips on accessing Logan County, West Virginia Genealogy census records online, see: West Virginia Census.

Turner, David Anderson "1860 Census of Logan County, Virginia" annotated by Mr Turner. 1981.
Logan county, WV 1880 Federal Census Index
Turner, David Anderson "1880 Census of Logan County, West Virginia" annotated 1981. Annoted by Mr Turner

Church

LDS Ward and Branch Records

Logan

Court

Family Histories

West Virginia Biographies Project - Logan County

General

The following compiled genealogies treat multiple Logan County families:

Anglin, Walter F. The Anglin Families of Colonial Virginia, In search of Descendants Approximately 300 pages
Ball, Nina, Ferrell, Lenore Kinger. The Ball Family of Boone County, West Virginia. 1980. 1998 2nd printing. Boone County Educational Workshop page 336.
Cook, Bonnie Turner. The Family of John Cooke McClain Printing, Parsons, West Virginia. 2001
Browning, Stanley C. Tracking the Pioneers: A History of Browning Families of Southern West Virginia.Lulu Press, Inc., 2006. Morrisville, NC 27560, www.lulu.com
Burgess, James A. Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied Families. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Company, 1978. FHL Film 1035668 Item 10; digital version at Family History Archives - free.
Dickerson, Florence S. The James Stewart Family of Early Augusta County, Virginia 1740-1760. 1966 McClain Printing Company, McClain Printing, 319 pages.
Lane, Mrs Julian C. "Key and Allied Families" Statesboro, Georgia. The Press 1931
Maynard, Roland B. The Maynards of East Kentucky: From Pioneers to the Tenth Generation." 1 May 1978 Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland 506 pages.
Phillips, Shelby Phillips. David Branham and his Descendants. 1995.
Riggins Sharol. "Teage Riggen and his Riggen, Riggin Riggins, descendants.Gateway Press
Thomas, Joseph. Logan County West Virginia and Beyond. 2007. 777 pages.
Thompson, Fred C. Ferrell, Vance and Allied Families 1991. 500 pages.
* *Turner, David Anderson. The Family of Floyd Cook.

Bibliography

[Price] Price, Jay Berry and Harry Hollingsworth. The Price, Blakemore, Hamblen, Skipwith and Allied Lines, Descendants of English, French, Spanish and Italian Kings and Sureties of the Magna Charta, A.D. 534-1992. Knoxville, Tenn., 1992. FHL Book 929.273 P931pjb.
[Spratt] Buchanan, Paul C. "The Spratt Family of Southwest Virginia Prior to 1800," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1988):297-305. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 32 (1988).

Land

Local Histories

West Virginia Archives & History Logan County

History and Genealogy Logan County

Johnston, David E. History of the Middle New River Settlements & Contiguous Territory Standard Printing & Publishing, Huntington, WV 1906 General History, family sketches,military rosters, including areas of Giles and Tazewell County which are now in Logan County.
Booton, Orland H. Account of Mine Wars 1960
Brumfield, Darrell, Ellis, Smith, Flossie Hatfield. Stories About Gilbert, West Virginia and Surround Communities. 1993. Gateway Press, Baltimore, Md.
Brumfield, Darrell, Ellis, Smith, Flossie Hatfield. Stories About Gilbert, West Virginia and Surround Communities. 1995. Gateway Press, Baltimore, Md.
Davis, Dolores Riggs. Dehue History Book - Depicts the rise and decline between 1916-1994 of the mining town or Dehue 1916-1994. 152 pages.
Jackson, Margaret A History of Logan West Virginia" 1950
Pearlman, Agnes B. "Virginia, Later West Virginia." 1976
Ragland, Henry Clay History of Logan County, Virginia 1896.
Smith, Nancy Sue. History of Logan and Mingo Counties, Beginning in 1617. Williamson West Virginia . 1966.
Spence, Robert Y. Land of the Guyandot: A History of Logan County, West Virginia. 1976
Swain, George T.:History of Logan County, Virginia rewritten by in 1927
Waller, Altine L. Feud: Hatfields McCoys & Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900University of North Carolina Press, 1988. War of Economics, Genealogical Tables for both families.
Wardell, Patrick. "Virginia & West Virginians 1670-1870". Heritage Books 1986
Thurmon, Walter R The Logan Coal Field of West Virgina; West Virginia University Library 1964.
Centennial Program: City of Logan, West Virginia 1852-1952. 1952

Maps

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 et. al. 1967 reprint: FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Western District, Logan 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." FHL Collection 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]

Civil War

West Virginia, Revolutionary Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865.
Grant, U.S. The Civil War", Battleground Publishing, Huntington, WV 1912 Civil Ware memories with list of Logan Veterans page 654.
West Virginia in the Civil War
Civil War 7th West Virginia Calvary
Logan Wildcats
Logan Wildcats Civil War WV Encyclopedia
Rending of Virginia, Hall, Granville Davisson, self published 1902 The Birthing of West Virginia eyewitness accounts of Seccession and Wheeling Conventions, many pictures of ancestors.
Great Pictures of the Civil War
Civil War Medals of West Virginia. Where are they?

Taxation

West Virginia Records at the Library of Virginia
Early Logan County Tax List
County and City Court Records Land and Office Patents & Grants Land Taxes, 1782-1900 Personal Property Taxes Vital Statistics, 1853-1862

Vital Records

West Virginia Vital Records - Birth - Death - Marriages. See also How to order West Virginia Vital Records or order electronically online.

Turner, Ronald Ray. Logan County West Virginia Marriages from Other Counties. 2007. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website.
Logan County USGENWEB Archives - Vital Records
Logan County, West Virginia Marriage Archives
Logan County Marriages 1992
Brown, Donna L Logan County, West Virginia Marriages - 1892-1913 1993
Brown, Donna L Logan County, West Virginia Marriages - 1913-1923" 1995
Brown, Donna L "Logan County, West Virginia Birth & Deaths 1872-18921992
Brown, Donna L "Logan County, West Virginia Birth & Deaths 1889-1906" 1994
Fowler, Vicie F. Vital Statistics of Logan County West Virginia 1853-1860. Manuscript Collection

Societies and Libraries

Logan County Genealogical Society
P O Box 1959
Logan, West Virginia 25601

Buffalo Creek Memorial Library

Logan Area Public Library
16 Wildcat Way
Logan, WV 25601
304-752-6652

South West Virginia Community College 2900 Dempsey Branch Road
Mt-Gay - Shamrock,
WV 25637
Telephone 304-896-7378

Family History Books that were found at the South West Virginia Community College were taken to Logan High School in April May of 2004. Patron should call during inclement weather before traveling to confirm library hours. College Library has a wealth of information on Logan County History and Family History

Logan High School, Logan, West Virginia 304-752-6606

West Virginia State Archives

West Virginia & Regional History Collections and Special Collections (WVU)

Family History Centers

Introduction to LDS Family History Centers. The closest family history centers are in the Huntington Family History Center and the Charleston Family History Center

Web Sites

Hatfield McCoy Stories

Hatfield McCoy Country
Hatfield McCoy feud wiki
The Hatfield Family - West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Hatfield-McCoy Feud West Virginia Archives
Hatfield-McCoy Feud - Roseanna: Juliet of the Mountains
Hatfield McCoy Feud Matewan

CYNDI'S List West Virginia

Mining in Logan County, West Virginia

West Virginia Archives and History Mine Wars Mountain Top Coal Mining, Logan County, West Virginia Logan Coal Field Surface Mining Fatal Mining Accidents Railroads, Coal in West Virginia Manslaughter on Buffalo Creek: The Pittston Mentality The Friends of Blair Mountain Logan County Phraseology

WV Mine Disasters 1884 to Present

References

↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Logan County, West Virginia. Page 744 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
↑ The following sources were used to create this database: (1) The History of Logan County by Henry Clay Ragland, (2)1850 Logan County Virginia Census, (3) 1860 Logan County Virginia Census, (4) 1870 Logan County WV Tridelphia Township, (5) 1850 Wyoming County, Virginia Census, (6) 1853-1860 Logan County, Virginia Birth Marriage and Death Records, and (7) 1850 - 1860 - 1870 Logan County, Virginia Mortality Schedules.

[HBG-1] Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Logan County, West Virginia. Page 744 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.

[Handybook-2] The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).

[3] The following sources were used to create this database: (1) The History of Logan County by Henry Clay Ragland, (2)1850 Logan County Virginia Census, (3) 1860 Logan County Virginia Census, (4) 1870 Logan County WV Tridelphia Township, (5) 1850 Wyoming County, Virginia Census, (6) 1853-1860 Logan County, Virginia Birth Marriage and Death Records, and (7) 1850 - 1860 - 1870 Logan County, Virginia Mortality Schedules.

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Logan County, West Virginia
Map
Location in the state of West Virginia
Location of West Virginia in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1824
County Seat	Logan
Courthouse