Wise County Virginia 
Genealogical Research Site


Vickie Sturgill Stevens
County Coordinator


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Wise County Clerk
P.O. Box 570
Wise, VA 24293
(540)328-6111

Order Vital Records
 
  Special thanks to Rhonda Robertson  for all her time and help in making data available for this site.

Marriages
Files are listed alphabeticly and some with variations on the spelling are listed together, i.e., Smith and Smyth.
Index

Births

Sorted by surname

1856-1871 Births "A & B"
1856-1871 Births "C & D"
1856-1871 Births  "E, F, G"
1856-1871 Births  "H, I, J, K"
1856-1871 Births  "L,M,N"
1856-1871 Births  "O, P, R"
1856-1871 Births  "S & T"
1856-1871 Births  "V,W,Y"


Deaths


Divorce





1860 Mortality Sch.
1870 Mortality Sch.

Wise Co Death Certificates 1912-1918
Images provided by Rhonda Robertson & the
Wise Co Historical Society

Listed by surnames
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Contact Vickie for look-up for the "Letters" not posted








Cemeteries

Lawson/Bond Cemetery
Lipps Cemetery
W R Mullins Cemetery
Levi Perry Cem
Ira Phillips Cemetery
Ringley Cemetery
grid for Ringley
Robbins Cemetery
Galen Roberts Cemetery
Skeen Cemetery
Lilburn H. Skeen Cemetery
Skeens Cemetery
Stallard Cemetery
Tannery Cemetery
Unknown Cemetery (Johnson/Shook) 
Unknown Cem 2
Harve Vanover Ridge Cem unmarked field stones
Cicero Wampler Cem
George Wampler
Wampler Cemetery
Wells Cemetery

Headstone Pictorial

Misc Burial, Death, Wills 





Union Baptist Minutes Obits
ORBC Obits
ORBC Obits part 2
The Political Graveyard
Obits , Stephens Church
Fatal Coal Mining Accidents1995-1999
Will of David Byrns
Will of Eli Sturgill
Will of John Blanton
Va Online Obituary
Census

Misc Census Files
Who's Who in Wise, 1860
Prisoners from the 1880 Census
Sturgill's in the 1900 Census
Maggards in the 1910 Va Census
Prisoners from the 1900  Census
Prisoners from the 1920 Census



Wise Parent Counties
1820 Scott Co Census
1830 Scott Co Census
1840 Scott Co Census
1850 Scott Co Census

1850 Lee Co Census

1850 Russell Co Census
1860 Russell Co Census

 


Military
Civil War Bios
Joseph Kelly Jan 17, 1823-Nov 23, 1890
Thompson Martin Smith Oct 29, 1838-Nov 6,?
Reuben Steele Sept 29, 1802-August 20, 1876
Samuel Bise Feb 11, 1842-Dec, 27, 1923
Joseph Mullins June 19, 1834-July 29, 1929
All above data compiled by Rhonda Robertson and Lillian Gobble Submitted by Rhonda Robertson
Jacob Rumley  off site link
Sam Caldwell
Va. Confederate Soldiers


Other Files & Links
Wise Co Confederate Soldiers
Company B 7th Battalion
Company H
50th Reg. VA Inf Floyd’s Brigade
64th Mounted Inf
The Bushwackers
Vietnam Deaths of Wise Countians
Korean War Deaths of Wise Countians
Mothers Pilgrimage, 1930
John Phillip Sturgill & the USS Scorpion 
Veterans Memorial Wall Photo
Salyer-Lee, UDC

Sons of the Confederate Veterans Dedicate the Stones of CSA Soldiers in the Tacoma Cemetery
Article and Photos
Dedication for Tandy Branham
Dedication for James Bryant
Dedication for Benjamin Wright
Dedication for Lockard Hamilton
Dedication for James W Sykes


Articles on People and Places
Indian Creek  by Nancy Clark Brown
Photos, articles and cemeteries on the people living in the Indian Creek area of Wise County.
The  Life and Times of a Mountaineer Game Warden by Dave O'Neill
Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia
The Legends of Swift's Silver Mines
Early Settlements of Wise Co. by Emory Hamilton, Biography of  Emory L. Hamilton  4/10/1913 - 11/8/1991
Photos of Wise County Places and People
Granny's Recipes from the Hurricane Rebekah Lodge Cook Book. Picture & list of the ladies names included.
Granny's Garden Wildflowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees found in Wise County
Granny's Songs Stories Grannys songs, folklore and stories of old

Crimes, Criminals, & Characters

African American Links
 
Misc Links, Files & Surname Specific
1st Court Order Book for Wise 1856
Funeral Book of Inez Brickey
The Poor Farm
What was a Fell Monger?
What was Dropsey?
Tithables On Clinch River 1772
John Ritchie Bio
General Jackson Lane Bio
Reuben Powers Bio
William Robertson Bio
Jacob Ramey Letters
The Powers  Family Bio
Wise Co Towns and Communities
John D Wagg 1835-66

description of his collection of papers and letters and their location, off site link
Cynthia Addington Boatwright
description of her collection of papers and their location, off site link
A story from WM. HENRY JENKINS
Notes on Antiques & Ancestry of Wise County People
Wise Court House Dedication Speech
by Nancy Clark Brown 1980
The Colorful Language of the Mountain People
an article by Nancy Clark Brown
The Jeremiah T Chase Manison House
an article by Nancy Clark Brown

Va Iron, Coke & Coal Co Inventory
Churches of Wise County
Old Wise County Newspapers
1844 Petition to form Wise County
Wise County Road Ways
by James Taylor Adams lots of surnames mentioned
Five Generations in a One Room School
an article by Nancy Clark Brown
Indian Creek Regular Baptist Church of Jesus Christ Minutes Minutes, 1867-1885

National Register of Historical Places  Wise Co
Signs of History, Wise Co
D C Powers Family Bible
Wise Centennial Celebration , 1956

Wise County Historical Society
The Appalachian Quarterly



Jacob Blair Research Mailing List
Blair surname research for Wise and surrounding counties

The Purkey's, Dotsons, Owens, Starnes
The Bowling-Preston Home Page
The Reynolds- Hall Family
The Carrico/Carico Connection
Wright and Hales of Wise & Russsll
Audie Kennedy's WebSite
Gilliam Genealogy
Bartley of Pike Co KY
Danner & Stewart Genealogy
The Claude Wells Family
Wilma's Family Research
The James W Hill Family

The Stidham Family
My Little Cabin in the Mountains
Hibbit Family
Mullins-Shepherds of Virginia
Tennessee Pryors 
Debby's Tid-Bits
Deborah Thompson Clarksons
Family Tree
McDaniels-Howland Genealogy
Wheatley Family Genealogy
Families are Forever surnames Adkins and Stanley
Tammy Denise MullinsFamily Tree

Glenda Hinkles' Wright & Hale Familes
The Robert Fleming& Elizabeth Stambaugh Website

Current Magisterial Districts
Historical Maps Website
The Oldest Map of America
Railroad Maps 1828-1900
Map of Va & Tennessee Railroad 1856
Potomack & James rivers in North America

Big Stone Gap Home Page
Wise Coal Camp Information
Virginia Coal Towns
Minerals in Wise County


 



   
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