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WELCOME! To Floyd County, Virginia A Project of the VaGenWeb This is a part of the USGenWeb project,
which is an effort to organize genealogical materials on the Internet. Updated October 13, 2018 |
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The Floyd
County Coordinator:
Rena Worthen
Email
if you have any materials to add, suggestions or comments.
Assistant:
BarbR
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Founded: 1831 Named for John Floyd, then Governor of Virginia. First Court House completed in 1834. County seat was called Jacksonville for Andrew Jackson, 7th
President of the United States. On January 23, 1896 the town of Jacksonville
was changed to Floyd by an Act passed by the General Assembly. No water flows into Floyd
County. In 2005 there was only 1
stoplight … in the entire county! Area: 382 sq mi 2015 Population: 15, 279 Time Zone: Eastern Website: www.floydcova.org |
Genealogy of Floyd Co.,
Virginia
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State Facts
Virginia Capital:
Richmond
Virginia Admitted On:
June 26, 1788
Virginia State Flower:
Dogwood
Virginia State Bird:
Cardinal
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A Note About
This Site
Barbara Maxine (Moore) Stanley was the original
coordinator for this site as well as our first Floyd Co., VA Mailing List
“Mom”. She created a webpage for contributions from Floyd Co., VA Mailing List
subscribers & it is still active although nothing has been added to that
site since her passing. Links on this page may direct you to that or other
webpages. You will need to use your browser key to return to this page.
Addresses
Floyd County, Courthouse
Clerk of the Circuit Court
100 E. Main St., Rm. 200
Floyd, VA 24091
Telephone: (540) 745-9330
African
Ancestral Genealogy
AfriGeneas~
The web's premier African American genealogy destination.
Transcriptions, databases, message boards, chats and much, much more.
African American
Cemeteries Online
The oldest and largest African American cemetery transcription site.
Autobiographies
Directs you to the
Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Browser back key to return to
this page.
Births
(also see
Newspaper Articles)
Missing 1856,1857, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863
Directs you to the
Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your browser key to return here.
Books
“Wherever We Wander”
Complied, designed and edited by Carolyn Bruce Hale
Directs you to the
Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your browser key to return here.
Books for Sale
Provided by Jack Spangler
from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Provided by Jack Spangler
from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Cemeteries
Floyd Co., VA Mailing List Website.
Credit given on submissions. Use your browser key to return here.
Cemeteries &
Other Photos by Rena Worthen
Cemetery
Readings by Genevieve Starkey
Cemetery transcriptions
contributed by Volunteers
FCVA Master
Burial List, update 2/16/2008
Compiled by Bobby Talbert
Census
Transcriptions
1840 Floyd
County, Virginia Census
submitted by Barbara Reininger
Barbara Reininger has transcribed the
entire text of the related publication from SK Publications and has their
permission to post it. You will need your browser back key to return here
1840
Floyd County Federal Census INDEX
Please keep in mind that only the name
for the head of household is given in those census records prior to
1850. The names for the others residing in a household was not collected
until the 1850 Census. Use your browser's back key to return here
1860 Floyd County, Virginia
Census
Transcribed by Jeffrey C. Weaver &
located on New River Notes, a
historical resource site for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and
Virginia. You will need to use your browser's back key to return here.
1890
Floyd County, Virginia Census
Transcribed by Barbara Reininger
Floyd
County, Virginia, is nearly unique in that the 1890 Census record for the
county is one of the very few surviving census records for that year for the
entire country. Almost all the census for the rest of the country, for
that year, was destroyed by fire in 1921 (either in the fire itself or
later). There are several books in the Library of Virginia (the state
library) in Richmond listing this census for Floyd County, Virginia (although
the National Archives website does not list Floyd County or Virginia as being a
surviving record). See more info in Teri Pettit's A Note Concerning the 1890 Census
"First
in the Path of the Firemen"
The
Fate of the 1890 Population Census, Part 1
By
Kellee Blake
If you are interested in reading of
this very interesting and tragic story about the 1890 Federal Census (filled
with irony and mystery), visit the National Archives page at The Fate of the
1890 Census.
You will need to use your browser's
back key to return to this site from any of the three above mentioned sites.
1900
Floyd County, Virginia Census Coming
soon
Transcribed by Barbara Reininger
1900 Floyd
County, Virginia Census INDEX Coming
soon
Transcribed by Barbara Reininger
1910
Floyd County, Virginia Census Coming
soon
Transcribed by Barbara Reininger
Author unknown. Contributed
by Anne B. St John
Chancery
Records
Coming
soon
Churches
Civil War
Veterans
111 KB - A listing
of some Floyd County men who served in the Civil War. Provided by Jack
Spangler from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Deaths &
Illnesses
(also see
Newspaper Articles)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
These are made possible by
Friends of the Fincastle Library, so a donation to them would be most
appreciated. There is a fee for reels from the Library of Virginia.
Receipts for
Coffin & Burial Expenses of Mrs. Eliza Emily (Smith) Wilson 1896
This receipt image was provided by Janice
Smyth on January 11, 2008.
Floyd
County, Virginia Death Records 1853-1872
Floyd County, Virginia Death
Records 1853-1872 Provided
by Jack Spangler from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Mr.
Marion Thomas Hall's Funeral Records
Funeral records of Mr. Marion Thomas Hall made from 1911
to 1943. It essentially gives who it was made for, relationship, who ordered or
paid for the coffins, date died, and the amounts he charged. Mr. Hall did this
service in the Terrys Fork area of Floyd County. Mr. Marion Thomas Hall's
grandson Everett Hall gave these records to Judy Blackwell and by way of Mary C.
Williams, I received them, and I'll share with you all with the permission of
Everett Hall. I'll post Relationship additions if you'll send them to me. Judy
Blackwell has requested we give credit to Kathy Calvert for these records. She
is a genealogy teacher and both Judy and Everett Hall are taking classes with
her. Kathy was the one that realized Judy and others would probably be
interested in them.
Diphtheria
Epidemic of 1862 with a brief look at Typhoid deaths
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Documents
Bird Cole Receipt
from James W. Smith
Contributed by unknown
Contributed by Maynard
McNeil
Bill for making shoes by Samuel Jackson Light. Contributed
by Maynard McNeil
Letter
from Paulina (Brogan) Radford to Greenville Radford 1864
Contributed to the Floyd
Co., VA Mail List site by Pattie. Use your browser key to return here.
Roanoke,
VA 1882-1982 - Postcard Stamp Cancellation
1831
Floyd Co., VA Personal Property Tax List
Directs
you to the New River Notes Web Site. Use your browser key to return here.
Family Bibles
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Sowers’ Bible - Images
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your browser
key to return here.
Family
Genealogy
Akers - The World
of Akers Family Genealogy
Contributed by Earl B. Akers, Sr. (deceased)
John Bishop
Family of Floyd County
Contributed by Carol Sutherland
Doyle
- The Herbert Wade Doyle, Jr. Family
Contributed by Wade Doyle (deceased)
Howell
- A Brief History of the Floyd County, VA Howells
Contributed by unknown author
Howell
- Additional information on the Howells in Floyd County, VA
Contributed by Susan M. Jurban
Hunsucker
- "Hunsucker & Name Variations
Genealogy" by Cheryl LeSueur
Contributed by Doug Johnson
Contributed by Maynard
McNeil
Janney,
Descendants of Isaac Janney and Hannah Jackson
Contributed by Bernard
Radford
Contributed by Bernard
Radford
Short
Family Roots (including Shortt)
Contributed
by Dave Woody
Simpson
- Descendants of Matilda Elizabeth Simpson
Contributed by Wade Doyle (deceased)
Southwest
Virginians by unknown
Contributed
by unknown
Sowers Family by Rena Whorten
Photos
contributed by John Sowers
Weddle Family History As I Know It
Contributed
by Calvin Weddle
Floyd Co., VA
History
2.09 MB - Article that appeared in
the Floyd Press December 29, 2005-- "1851 county courthouse was center of activity
in its time". Provided by Jack Spangler from his
webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Floyd Co., VA
Mailing List Reunions
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Folk Songs
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Historical
Societies & Trusts
Floyd County Historical
Preservation Trust
Floyd County Historical Society
Includes the Counties of Pulaski,
Giles, Montgomery and the City of Radford, Virginia.
They own and operate the Wilderness
Road Regional Museum located in Newbern, Virginia, in Pulaski
County.
For further membership information click here.
NEW RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
P.O. Box 373
Newbern, VA 24126
Phone: 1-540-674-4835
Fax: 1-540-674-1266
Southwestern
Virginia Genealogical Society
No Web Site
Usually meets the third
Saturday each month (except summer months and December) at the Roanoke City
Central Library. Their quarterly publication is titled Virginia
Appalachian Notes. Membership is $20.00. For more information, or
to join, write via mail to:
Southwestern Virginia Genealogical
Society
P.O. Box 12485
Roanoke, VA 24026-2485
Infamous
Offenses
Persons
Convicted of Felony & Other Infamous Offenses 1871 - 1943
Directs
you to the New River Notes Web Site. Use your browser key to return here.
Legends from
Floyd Co., VA
NASCAR Legends from
Floyd County
Links
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish
Settlement in Virginia
Extracted from the Original Court Records
of Augusta County 1745-1800 by Lyman Chalkley
Floyd County, Virginia
Mailing List Web Site
Information Contributed by the Floyd County Mailing
List Subscribers and Others
This site contains
a wide range of information about the history and families of the Upper New
River Valley. New River Notes is
owned and managed by the Grayson
County, Virginia Heritage Foundation
for the
benefit of all who are researching in southwestern Virginia and northwestern
North Carolina.
White
Sulphur Spring Conferderate Soldiers Monument,
Montgomery Co., VA
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Directs
you to the Virginia Tech Civil War Sudies Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Linage
Linages
submited to Floyd Co., VA Mailing List
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Lookups
We
welcome offers to lookup references in privately held books. Email Rena Worthen with any such offers.
Marriages
1831-1940 Marriage Index
to Images Index complete thru 1940
with images linked thru 1833
This
index was originally on the Families of Floyd Co., VA site but only completed
thru 1900.
Actual
images of most of the above indexed marriages.
Marriage
Page for Floyd Co., VA Mailing List Site Use your browser key to return here.
Includes:
Note
Concerning Marriage Bonds
Floyd
Co., VA Marriage 1833 – 1850:
Joseph Able to
Stephen Cannady
Joseph R.
Carroll to Henry Epperly
Ira Epperly to Isiah E. Husten
Elijah Hylton to James Lester Jr.
John L. Lester
to George W. Quesenberry
Elijah Qusenberry to Samuel Strickler
Chapman D.
Weeks to Daniel Zentmeyer
Floyd
Co., VA – Early marriages link broken
Akers
Family Marriages 1853-1935 link broken
Dulaney
Family Marriages 1822-1916 link broken
Hill
Family Marriages 138-1938 link broken
Marriage
Bond Consent Warren W. Puckett & Nancy Helms link
broken
Poff Male Marriage Index - Montgomery Co., VA 1812-1928
Migrations
Pioneer
Settlers from Floyd County, Virginia, to Glenwood/Camas Prairie, Washington
Raleigh
Co., West Virginia Called "Little Floyd"
Military
1851
VA Militia Muster Roll - Greasy Creek, FLoyd Co., VA
Newspapers
Articles – Floyd & Elsewhere
Index only and does not contain the obituary notices, provided by Jack
Spangler
Floyd
Press August 1999 - August 2000
Provided by Jack Spangler
from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Floyd
Press October 2001 - December 2004
Provided by Jack Spangler
from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Floyd
Press January 2005 - December 2006
Provided by Jack Spangler
from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Floyd Press January
2007 - August 2007
Provided by Jack Spangler
from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Alderman,
Miss Donna Dawn Engagement & May Day Pageant
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Daughter
Born to Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Barrett Jr
Betty Jo (Sumner) Barrett, daughter
of Mr. & Mrs. Troy Sumner of Floyd.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Belcher
- Quesinberry Marriage
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Jack Spangler
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Obits
2001 - William Cecil Dulaney, Ronald K. Light, Kelsea Jade Nichols
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Mr.
& Mrs. Duncan 50th Wedding Anniversary 1957
Contributed by Lisa Smith
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your browser
key to return here.
Virginia's
Defense Is Safe Farming - 1917 Floyd Press
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your browser
key to return here.
Mr.
& Mrs. John Harmon Vacation Trip 1957 Floyd Press
Also mentions Mr. & Mrs. Wylie
Akers, Lonnie Akers, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. Knowles, Mr. & Mrs. H. D. Quesenberry, Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Knowles,
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Knowles, Mr.
& Mrs. Olen Quesenberry & their relationships
to the Harmons.
Contributed by Lisa Smith
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
3
Students from Floyd County Receive College Degrees at Bridgewater College
Wanda Carol Harmon, Iva Hylton & Ralph Warner. Includes parents of each as well
as pictures.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Obit Bessie
(Alley) Howell 2001 Floyd
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Albert Freeman Harris, James J. “Jim”
Secovnie, Jr., Lou Alyce
(Shelor) Vaughan.
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
New
Floyd County High Students 1957 Floyd Press
Contributed by Lisa Smith
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Floyd
County Schools 1881 by R. T. Akers
Contributed by Mary Frances (Conner)
Williams
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Johnson
- Lee Marriage 1960 Floyd
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Reidsville
School Closing Program 1917 Floyd Press
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Elizabeth
(Smith) Shelor Obit 1993
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Slusher
Family Reunion 2004 Floyd - Page 1
Slusher
Family Reunion 2004 Floyd - Page 2
Contributed by Lisa Smith
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Contributed by unknown
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Daughter
Born to Dr. & Mrs. Maurice Vaughn
Mrs. Vaughn the former Miss Lou Alice
Shelor of Floyd
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Wayland
& Francis Marguerite (Spring) Webb Claim Settlement 1957 Floyd Press
Wife’s full name from her death
record.
Contributed by Lisa Smith
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Miss
Rebecca Weeks Gets CBYF Dist. Post
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Women's
Prohibition League of America Contest - 1917 Foyd
Press
Contributed by Linda Henson (Mullins)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your browser
key to return here.
Index for Montgomery News Messenger
Obits 1950
Obits
(also see
Newspaper Articles)
Obit Submitted to the
Floyd Co., VA Mailing List Site
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
368 KB. Essentially a complete index and obits from the Floyd Press 1973 - 1999. Index only and does not contain the obituary notices.
Provided by Jack Spangler from his webpage. Use your browser key to return here.Obits August 1999 -
August 2000
360 KB - Essentially a complete index and obits from the
Floyd Press August 1999 - August 2000. Provided by
Jack Spangler from his webpage. Use your browser key to
return here.
1.05 MB - Essentially a complete index and obits from the
Floyd Press October 2001 - December 2004. Provided by
Jack Spangler from his webpage. Use your browser key to
return here.
Obits
2005
840 KB - Essentially a complete index and
obits from the Floyd Press January 2005 - December 2006. Provided by Jack Spangler from his webpage. Use
your browser key to return here.
Obits 2007
353 KB - Index and obits from
the Floyd Press January 2007 - August 2007. Provided by Jack Spangler from his
webpage. Use your browser key to return here.
Photos
Ole' Paul has provided us a picture of what we
believe is EUPHEMIA Breeding Quesenberry. Please
look, and if this is not in fact who we believe she is, please email Rena
Worthen with the correction.
Can you identify any of these family members and the address of
this home? Photo provided by: Tom Mitchell
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
Queries
Floyd Co., VA Queries Posted thru 2002
Revolutionary
War Service
(widow of Franklin
Co., VA)
Transcribed by Tami Ramsey
Research
Families
of Floyd Co., Virginia, Surnames of Coming Soon!
Compiled by BarbR
Schools
Surname
Register
Index of
Surnames & Researchers E-mail Address (addresses may no longer work)
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
If you
want to browse those registered since January 1, 1999, please select one
of the following
These e-mail addresses may no longer be valid.
1999 Surname
Register,
2000 Surname
Register,
2001 Surname
Register,
2002 Surname
Register,
2003 Surname
Register.
The old
register of Floyd County Surname Researchers (those registered before 31 Dec
1998) is no longer available.
Tax Lists
1831
Floyd Co., VA Personal Property Tax List
Directs
you to the New River Notes Web Site. Use your browser key to return here.
Tributes to
Past Members of the Floyd Co., VA Mailing List
William
Clyde Maxey "Jist ole" Clyde
Tribute to Irene Spangler
Underwood
Wills
Will of Mary Spangler
1720-1820
320 KB - Will
dated 27 November 1812. Provided by Jack Spangler from his webpage. Use
your browser key to return here.
Will Book I,
1831-1852, Floyd County, VA
Located on New River Notes, a historical
resource site for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia.
You will need to use your browser's back key to return here.
Directs
you to the Floyd County, Virginia Mailing List Web Site. Use your
browser key to return here.
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