Author: John Newton Harman

Publisher: Southern Historical Press

Published: 2020-02-12

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 9780893089566

By: John Newton Harman, Pub. 1922, Reprinted 2020, 655 pages, NEW INDEX, ISBN #0-89308-956-7. Until now, this book has ben extremely difficult to use for research due to its lack of a through and complete INDEX. We have created a brand new FULL NAME Index that contains the names of approximately,000 persons. Tazwell County was formed in 1799 from Wythe and Russell Counties. Volume II continues the principal features of Volume I from 1853, with marriage records to 1868; the names of all devisers and devisees of wills to 1924; lists of Tazewell soldiers in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I; various court orders; and a fairly complete list of Tazewell churches and church officers in 1924. The concluding 250 pages of the book, moreover, consist of lengthy genealogies of pioneer families of Tazewell County: Bandy, Barnes, Baldwin, Bowen, Chapman, Colulling, Copenhaver, Crockett, Deskins, Fields, George, Gillespie, Gose, Graham, Graybeal, Greear, Greever, Hankins, Harman, Harrison, Higginbotham, Holmes, Hopkins, Johnston, Laird, Leese, Linkous, Litz, Lockhart, May, Mays, Martin, Maxwell, McGuire, Moore, Moss, Mustard, Peery, St. Claire, Stras, Sparks, Thompson, Tynes, Ward, Whitley, Whitten, Witten, Williams, Wohlford, Yost, and Young.