Virginia Records General Reference Military Records Southeastern Records New Titles New Papyrus Publishing Company Home Page Help New Papyrus Genealogy Home Page

New Papyrus Publishing Company's On-Line Catalog:
Russell County Virginia

Map of Va: Russell CountyRussell County was formed on 1 May 1786 from the northern portion of Washington County. It was named for General William Russell, a pioneer of the region and Revolutionary soldier. In 1792 Lee County was cut off from the western part of Russell. In 1800 a portion of Russell was taken to form part of Tazewell County, and again in 1807 and 1835 land was given to Tazewell County. Scott County's creation in 1814 removed another parcel of Russell territory. In 1856, 1858, and 1880 land was taken to form all or part of Wise, Buchanan, and Dickenson counties, respectively. Some of the county's records, notably a deed book and a marriage record book, were destroyed along with miscellaneous court papers, in a fire which burned a large portion of the center of Lebanon, including the courthouse, in 1872.
RUSSELL CO. VA 1890 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX LISTS Abstracted, annotated and edited by Jack Hockett and Donald Helton. 2012. ii, 51 pages, complete name index. 8x10, paperback. On January 10, 1921 a fire of unknown origin in the basement of the Department of commerce building destroyed all but 1% of the 1890 census. For more than a century historians and genealogists alike have sought to find ways to replace or at least regather some of this lost data. One of the most valuable sources which have survived are the state personal property tax lists which provide a summary of each household.
[RUSL90] $10.95
Add to Cart



RUSSELL COUNTY, VA 1810 SUBSTITUTE CENSUS [Abstracts from the 1810 Personal Property Tax List] by John Vogt, 2011, 5 1/2"x8 1/2" format, viii, 14 pages, map.
        Russell is one of eighteen Virginia counties for which the 1810 census is lost. In August, 1814 British troops occupied Washington, DC and public buildings were put to the torch. In the destruction that followed, numerous early records of the government were lost, including all of Virginia’s 1790 and 1800 census reports, as well as eighteen county lists for the state's most recent [1810] federal census. Although two “fair copies” of each county’s census had been left in the counties for public display, these were ephemeral lists and not preserved, and by 1814 they too had been mislaid, lost, or destroyed. Hence, the closest document available we have to reconstruct a partial image of the missing county lists is the personal property tax list.
       According to research notes by Minor T. Weisiger, Library of Virginia archivist: “Information recorded in Virginia personal property tax records changed gradually from 1782 to 1865. The early laws required the tax commissioner in each district to record in “a fair alphabetical list” the names of the person chargeable with the tax, the names of white male tithables over the age of twenty-one, the number of white male tithables between ages sixteen and twenty-one, the number of slaves both above and below age sixteen, various types of animals such as horses and cattle, carriage wheels, ordinary licenses, and even billiard tables. Free Negroes are listed by name and often denoted in the list as “free” or “FN.”
       The present abstract of Russell's 1810 personal property tax list is NOT a transcript of the entire document; rather, it is a summary of three items important in delineating the 1810 "substitute" census for this county, i.e., number of male tithables 16 and older, number of slaves twelve years and older, and the number of horses. The original form of the census was in alphabetic order by date and letter. The substitute list presented here is in absolute alphabetic order for easy reference.

In the current volume, the data is recorded thus:
Beck, Robert                  1      -      2
Bellama, John                1      -      1
Booker, Richard E.        1      -      -
Bouldin, Green              2      6      5

        Column one represents the tithable males (16 and over) in the household; column 2 is the number of slaves over 12; and the final column is the number of horses, mares or mules.
        For genealogical researchers in this 1810 period, personal property tax records may provide additional important information. Oftentimes, juniors and seniors are listed adjacent to one another and recorded on the same day. When a taxpayer is noted as “exempt”, it can be a clue to someone holding a particular position in government or being elderly, infirm, or for some other reason no longer required to pay the tithable tax. Women, both black and white, appear occasionally as heads of households when they own property in their own right or as the widow of a property owner.
        Another valuable source for filling in information about an ancestor is the land tax record, and especially the one for 1815. In that year, the enumerators began to add the location of the property in relation to the county court house. Roger Ward has abstracted all of the 1815 land tax records, and they are available from this publisher at www.iberian.com.
        The 1810 substitute census list for Russell County contains 1,022 households, 1,110 tithables, both white and free black, and 195 slaves over the age of twelve, and 2,810 horses.

SURNAMES included in the 1810 personal property list are:
        Abet; Adams; Addington; Alexander; Allen; Alley; Allin; Anderson; Arnet; Arton; Arvan; Astrip; Atterson; Auxer;

        Babb; Back; Baker; Ball; Ballinger; Barker; Barnett; Bawn; Bay; Bays; Belcher; Benner; Berry; Bevens; Bevin; Bevins; Bickley; Biset; Bishop; Black; Bletcher; Bleven; Blevin; Bloomer; Boldridge; Bolen; Bolin; Bollin; Booth; Boyd; Bradsker; Breeding; Brichey; Broadwater; Brooksher; Brown; Browning; Bruce; Brumley; Bunday; Burch; Burdine; Burk; Burtis; Burton; Bush;

        Campbell; Candler; Carter; Cartey; Cassel; Casteal; Castel; Castle; Chaffin; Chaifen; Chainey; Chanler; Charles; Chase; Childers; Childris; Childs; Clark; Clendening; Clevenger; Clift; Cody; Cole; Collin; Colly; Color; Combs; Comton; Conley; Conway; Cook; Cooksey; Coots; Cornwall; Corum; Couch; Countess; Counts; Cowing; Cox; Crabtree; Cragen; Crank; Crider; Crump; Crumwell; Culberson; Cumton; Cuningham;

        Dail; Dair; Daugherty; Davenport; Davis; Davison; Dawson; Day; Deen; Dickenson; Dickinson; Dickson; Dingus; Dinsmoore; Dollahide; Dorton; Duff; Duncan; Dunihue; Durham; Dutton; Duty; Dyer;

        Elam; Eliot; Elkin; Ellet; Ellington; Elliott; Ellis; Emmon; Ervin; Erwin; Estep; Esterling; Evin; Ewing;

        Faris; Farmer; Ferrel; Field; Fields; Finnel; Finnil; Fittsgarrel; Flanary; Flanay; Fletcher; Flin; Forgerson; Fouch; Fraley; Fraly; Francis; Francisco; Frazur; Fry; Fugate; Fulks; Fullar; Fuller; Fulller;

        Galliher; Garriott; George; Gibson; Gilbert; Gillespy; Gilmore; Gilum; Glen; Godsey; Going; Goodman; Gore; Gose; Grain; Grammar; Gray; Greats; Green; Grey; Grizle; Grub; Guttery;

        Haberlane; Hackney; Hadox; Hail; Hain; Hainey; Hains; Hall; Hamilton; Hammilton; Hammon; Hamon; Haney; Hargass; Harris; Hart; Harvy; Hatfield; Heburn; Hendricks; Hendrickson; Henry; Herndon; Herrel; Herril; Hicks; Hickum; Hill; Hobb; Hobbs; Hodges; Hoge; Holebrook; Holiday; Holland; Honacre; Honaker; Honker; Hooper; Horn; Horton; Howard; Howerton; Howun; Hullen; Hunt; Hurst; Hurt; Huse; Hutcheson; Hynes;

        Ingland; Ingle; Isaac;

        Jackson; James; Jarral; Jeffers; Jesse; Johnson; Johnston; Jones; Jordan;

        Keen; Kelly; Kendrick; Kenner; Kezee; Kidd; Kilgore; Kinder; King; Kinsor; Kirk; Kisor; Kitchen; Kizer;

        Lain; Lambert; Landers; Large; Lark; Lawson; Lea; Lee; Leforce; Leman; Linch; Little; Litton; Locheart; Loid; Long; Louderbach; Lovelace; Luis;

        Madam; Madams; Mahon; Marshall; Martin; May; May; McCarrel; McClelan; McCliben; McCloglin; McCloud; McConnel; McCormack; McCoy; McDavid; McFarlan; McFarland; McFarlane; McGloglan; McGlouglin; McGraw; McKenny; McKinney; McKinster; McNight; McRaynolds; Mead; Miers; Miller; Mintor; Mixer; Mohan; Monk; Montgomery; Mooney; Moore; Moreton; Morgan; Morrel; Mosley; Moss; Mullen; Mullens; Mullet; Mullin; Mullins; Mullit; Muncy; Murphey; Murphy; Musick; Mutter;

        Nash; Nealy; Nease; Necesary; Nelson; Newberry; Newman; Nichols; Nifong; Noland;

        O'Daniel; Olinger; Osborn; O’Daniel;

        Parks; Paschal; Patrick; Patton; Pearson; Peck; Pedigo; Pendleton; Penix; Penley; Pennington; Pennix; Percen; Perry; Peters; Philip; Phip; Pipen; Porter; Powal; Power; Powers; Presley; Price; Prince; Prulat; Pucket; Puckit;

        Quillin;

        Raimey; Raimy; Ramsey; Ramy; Rasnack; Ray; Redwine; Richmond; Riggs; Ring; Ritchie; Ritchmond; Roach; Roaton; Robert; Roberts; Robinson; Robison; Rogar; Romaine; Roman; Rosnack; Runals; Ryley;

        Sally; Salyars; Samples; Sargent; Scott; Sewel; Sexton; Shearman; Shoomaker; Short; Sick; Sikes; Skeen; Smith; Smoot; Smyth; Sneed; South; Southard; Southarlane; Spradling; Stacy; Stalyard; Stanfield; Stanley; Stapleton; Starnes; Step; Stephens; Stewart; Stinson; Stone; Strauther; Strong; Stroud; Stublefield; Sulcher; Summers; Sutvin; Sweany; Sword;

        Tate; Taylor; Templeton; Thomson; Thornbery; Tod; Turner; Tyrey;

        Upton;

        Vermilion; Vicar;

        Wadington; Waggon; Waldip; Walep; Walker; Wallace; Waller; Waltrip; Wampler; Watson; Watt; Wayland; Webb; Welch; Welcher; Wells; Welsh; West; Whit; Whitcher; White; Whiteley; Whitely; Whitlock; Wigfield; Wilborn; Willcox; Williams; Wilson; Wingo; Witt; Wizer; Wood; Woods; Wright;

[RUSLPP] $4.00
Add to Cart



SELECTED DEATH RECORDS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIANS WHO DIED IN MISSOURI (OR WERE RELATED TO THOSE WHO DIED IN MISSOURI (with additions from Iowa and Sullivan County/East Tennessee) Researched by Thomas Jack Hockett; Abstracted & compiled by by Donald W. Helton. iv,220pp., every-name index (8.25" x 10.75" paperback). These deaths are taken from a variety of sources and methods employed, including "hunt and seek", census, on-line sources at Rootsweb, Ancestry, IGI, Family Genealogy Forums, censuses, etc. and the very valuable Missouri Death Certificates 1912-1958 which are generously available online. These deaths of mid and extreme SW VA people in MO during the subject time likely represent only a fraction of the deaths which could be ferreted out with difficulty employing 2-4 sources (in conjunction) in conjunction. The work represents considerable labor (not to mention eye-strain) and it is hoped it will bolster further the efforts to document the migration of SW VA persons”.

During the process of abstracting and compiling the death records listed herein, instances of conflict occurred between the certificate and additional information found on-line. The information is entered as found. Any such conflicts are left to the discretion of the reader to reconcile.
Table of contents
Missouri Deaths from
      Washington County       1
      Wythe Co., Va      43
      Russell Co., Va      56
      Grayson/Carroll Cos., VA       80
      Smyth Co., Va      85
      Tazewell Co., Va      101
      Lee Co., Va      118
      Scott Co., Va      138
      Dickenson Co., Va      151
      Buchanan Co., Va      154
      Miscellaneous Deaths from southwest Va.      181
      Iowa Deaths from Southwest Virginia      193
      Alphabetical Index      202
[SDMO] $29.95
Add to Cart



RUSSELL COUNTY, VA LAW ORDER BOOK 2, 1792-1799 Abstracted by Michael A. Dye 2008, 8x10,iv, 156 pp., full name index. Law Order books consist of the corrected, transcribed clerk's notes of the court proceedings. As such, they give detailed information on individuals brought before the court, of jury decisions, and court justice's orders for county maintenance. The author has carefully abstracted the clerk's notes for this early Russell Orber Book.
[Rlo2] $24.95
Add to Cart



RUSSELL COUNTY, VA LAW ORDER BOOK 10, 1833-1838 Transcribed by Donald W. Helton 2007, 8x10,iv, 550 pp., surname index.Law Order books consist of the corrected, transcribed clerk's notes of the court proceedings. As such, they give detailed information on individuals brought before the court, of jury decisions, and court justice's orders for county maintenance. The author has meticulously transcribed the court law order book noted above, and it is a treasure trove of information for the genealogist with family in Russell county during the 1830s. More than seven hundred families are represented in the court proceedings, and they constitute thousands of individuals who appear as either defendants or plaintiffs.
[Rlob] $49.95
Add to Cart



1880 CENSUS OF RUSSELL CO. VA Transcribed by Jack Hockett, 131 pages plus foreword and every-name index (8.25" x 10.75" paperback). The second census following the Civil War, this census presents significant and detailed information on every member of the household. A thorough and meticulous transcription taken from microfilms [Population Schedules of the Tenth Census of the United States].
[Rs80] $29.95
Add to Cart



RUSSELL CO., VA DEED BOOK 1, 1787-1795 abstracted by Tom Colley. 1995, 101 pages, index, notes (8"x11" format). Russell County was formed in 1786 from the northern portion of Washington County. In 1792 Lee County was cut off from the western part of Russell. In 1800 a portion of Russell was taken to form part of Tazewell County, and again in 1807 and 1835 land was given to Tazewell County. Scott County's creation in 1814 removed another parcel of Russell territory. In 1856, 1858, and 1880 land was taken to form all or part of Wise, Buchanan, and Dickenson counties, respectively. In this and the following two titles, the author provides a valuable window on eighteenth-century Russell County at a time when it was the focus of a great migration movement through the area into the western lands. These will prove to be extremely valuable for Southwestern Virginia research.
[Rcd1] $21.00
Add to Cart



RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 2, 1795-1798 abstracted by Tom Colley. 1995, 117 pages, index, notes (8"x11 format). A continuation of the series above.
[Rcd2] $22.00

Add to Cart



RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 3, 1798-1806 abstracted by Tom Colley. 1995, 233 pages, index, notes (8"x11 format). A continuation of the series above.
[Rcd3] $30.00

Add to Cart



RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 4, 1806-1814 abstracted by Tom Colley. 1996, 302 pages, index, notes (8"x11 format). A continuation of the series above.
[Rcd4] $33.00

Add to Cart



IMPLIED MARRIAGES OF RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA : (Maiden names of wives mentioned in the wills and deeds of Russell County Prior to 1860, and in the earliest records of Lee and Scott counties, formed from Russell in 1793 and 1814 respectively) abstracted by Mary D. Fugate, C.G.R.S. vi, 112 pages, index. The author has drawn upon the early deed & will books and death register of Russell, as well as Lee County will books and Scott County Will Book I to present an integrated look at the possible marriages of southwest Virginia through marriages implied in the documentation. The book contains 1,003 marriage entries with references to their location in the documentation, and it also contains a full bride's maiden name listing, with cross-references to parents when known.
[Rusl] $14.95

Add to Cart



Russell Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 20 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
For a full description of the 1815 LAND DIRECTORY Records and a listing of available counties, see: Individual County Booklets, 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners
[Vd91] $6.00
Add to Cart



For more records pertaining to RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA see also:

 

To order by phone, call 1-706-546-6740 M-F 8a-6p EST.
You may call the number above during business hours to check the status of an order, or
E-mail us
Click here for mail-order instructions.

To order by phone, call 1-706-546-6740 M-F 8a-6p EST.
You may call the number above during business hours to check the status of an order, or
E-mail us

Please see our HELP PAGE for mail-order instructions, wholesaler policies and other contact information.

We specialize in records for Virginia 1650-1900.
Use these convenient pull-down menus to jump quickly to a county of interest:



|| Virginia/W.Va. || General Reference || Military Records ||
|| Other States || Genealogy Links || New Titles
|| Home Page ||

Copyright © 2012 New Papyrus Publishing Company