African-American Research
in Monroe County, West Virginia

Data On-Line - Monroe County VA/WV

• Slaves in Probate Records/Wills
  • Will of James ALEXANDER, 1813 - Monroe Co. WV
  • Will of Nathan MILBOURN, 1836 - Monroe Co. WV
  • Will of Hugh CAPERTON, 1846 - Monroe Co. WV
  • Will of John HANDLEY, 1810 - Monroe Co. WV
  • Will of William HANDLEY, 1840 - Monroe Co. WV
  • Will of Henry McDANIEL, Sr., 1819 - Monroe Co. WV
  • Inventory of Henry McDANIEL, Sr.’s Estate, 1819 - Monroe Co. WV
• Slave Owners
  • Family History of Henry McDANIEL, Sr. - Monroe Co. WV
• Birth Records
  • 1856 Birth Records
  • 1857 Birth Records
  • 1858 Birth Records
• Pastors of John Wesley United Methodist Church 1820-1979
• Death Records
• Marriage Records
• Census/Tax Lists
• Free Inhabitants
• Emancipations
• Court Records
  • Case of JACKSON v. GARTEN, abstracted, 1843-1844 - Monroe Co. WV
• Military Records
• Church Memberships
  • Membership of Mt. Pleasant Church, 1854-1866 - Monroe Co. WV
• Cemeteries
• Occupations of Early Monroe Black Residents
• Famous Monroe County African-American Residents
  • http://www.wvculture.org/history/payne.html - Christopher Payne

Monroe County Links

• African-American Population of Present-day West Virginia Counties in 1860

West Virginia Links

• http://www.wvculture.org/history/blacks.html -- History of African Americans in West Virginia
• http://www.wvculture.org/history/civwaran.html -- "Researching Your Civil War Ancestor"
  - states that the 45th US Colored Infantry was the one Black regiment assigned to W.Va.
• http://www.wvculture.org/history/medals.html -- Unclaimed Union Civil War medals.
• http://www.wvculture.org/history/timeline.html -- "A Timeline of African-American History in West Virginia"

• BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER AND MONROE COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA
  - from settlement to 1920 (compiled by Carol L. Haynes). Inquiries can be directed to Carol L. Haynes at chaynes704@aol.com.
• Visit the main Look-Up Volunteer page for more resources.

• THE HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, by Oren F. Morton (1916). See Chapter XIX entitled "The Colored Element".
• Slavery in West Virginia, by John Edmond Stealey, ( ).
• INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE COLONY AND ANCIENT DOMINION OF VIRGINIA, APPENDIX Southern literary messenger, devoted to every department of literature and the fine arts. Volume 14, Issue 1 pp. 17-26 Richmond, Virginia; Publisher, T. W. White [etc.]
• Posey, Thomas. The Negro Citizen of West Virginia. Institute: Press of West Virginia State College, 1934.