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Addresses of Interest
Carroll Co Genealogy Club
P.O. Box 395
Hillsville, VA 24343
 www.rootsweb.com/~vaccgc/
$15 annual dues
Quarterly Newsletter
Carroll Co Historical Society
P.O. Box 937
Hillsville, VA 24343
(276) 728-4113
http://historicalsociety.chillsnet.org/
$20 annual dues
Quarterly Magazine
Omega Office & Church Supply
215 N. Main St.
Hillsville, VA 24343
(276) 728-2061
(800) 786-8937
Gen. Books Outlet
Carroll County Public Library
101 Beaver Dam Rd
Hillsville, Va 24343
(276) 728-3334
The Carroll News
Box 487
Hillsville Va 24343
(276) 728-7311
Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 1184
(515 N. Main Street)
Hillsville Va 24343
(276) 728-5397
County Court Clerk
P.O. Box 218
Hillsville, VA 24343
(276) 730-3070
Writing for Vital Statistics
www.vitalrec.com/va.html has addresses for both states and counties
Historical & Background Items
From Handbook of Virginia History: Carroll Co was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Maryland. It was formed from Grayson County in 1842, and part of Patrick County was added later.
Tiger Map of Carroll Co 1895 Map of Carroll Co ePodunk Misc Info Carroll County Churches, Research Project
Confederate Pensioners (1909). CSA Pension payments (1911-1926) Men who died in the Civil War (Incomplete list)
Death July 18, 1927, of William Kenny Early
Text file from 1928 issue of "Confederate Veteran", provided by Rena Worthen
World War II Casualties, provided by Janet Hill: MicroSoft Word file OR view as WebPage.
Other VA Counties
Patron submitted items
Jane Coleman has provided this 1926-27 picture of the students at Oak Grove School, with the request for help in identifying any of them. Her aunt Laura Mabe Williams, in a white dress, is standing in front of her aunt Edith Mabe Clark, wearing a dark dress.
  Click this thumbnail to see it all.
Send email to Jane with this link.
Sandra Hardee Floyd has provided a list of SURRATT burials in two MicroSoft Word documents.
The first is arranged by Cemetery Name.
The second is arranged by Given Name
Send email to Sandra with this link.
Brad Rippey has sent us an interesting background paper on his family's
Post-Civil War migration to Carroll
It also has some interesting county history tidbits.
Trisha Whitlock sent us several documents relating to the Pickett Cemetery. Her own transcription of tombstone inscriptions. And, extracted from a church record, kept by Lena Porter Newman, beginning 1931:
A list of burials, A list of children buried in the cemetery, &
An outline history of the Pickett (Pleasant View) Church
Finding aid for 1900 Carroll Co Census, provided to us by Cheryl Callaway
Alphabetical list of names, with District and Household Number for each instance of Surnames beginning with:
A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , illegible, I, & J , K & L , M , N & O , P & Q , R , S , T, U, & V , W, X, Y, & Z
Genealogical Index for Carroll County
Names Births, Marriages, Deaths Census for: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880

My intention is to link the names in Vital Records, with the Census.
(The 1880 census requires some explanation of its format.)
Death Register courtesy of Ron Hall.


Carroll Co page in the Tombstone Inscription Project


Carroll Co Files in USGenWeb's Archives Project
Links to Neighbor Counties
Wythe Co Pulaski Co Floyd Co
Grayson Co       Carroll Co       Patrick Co
Alleghany Co, NC Surry Co, NC
Shortcuts to Ancestor Counties
  Charles River Co
named changed to:
York Co (1642/43)

Chickacoan Indian District

Northumberland Co (1648)

            Lancaster Co (1651)
 
New Kent Co (1654)

King and Queen Co (1691)


(Old) Rappahannock Co
    (1656-1692) defunct


King William Co (1702)

     
         

Spotsylvania Co (1721)
Essex Co (1692)

   
     
 
Orange Co (1734)

Augusta Co (1745)

Botetourt Co (1770)

Fincastle Co (1772-1777) defunct

Montgomery Co (1777)

Wythe Co (1790)

Grayson Co (1793)

Carroll Co (1842)
At its formation, Spotsylvania Co was bounded on the west by the Shenandoah River, and the description of its boundaries did not include territories to the south. But, when Orange Co was formed, it included western lands to "the utmost limits of Virginia".

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