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Historical & Background Items of Interest

The Name of Mercer County

Mercer Co, WV, was formed as a VA county, in 1837 from portions of Giles and Tazewell Counties. It was named in honor of General Hugh Mercer of Fredericksburg, who died at the Battle of Princeon, NJ, during the Revolutionary War. The county seat is Princeton. It's the second VA county to be named after General Mercer, the first was formed in 1785, and was in that part of VA that became the state of Kentucky

ePodunk

Links to information of all sorts, about the county.

Mercer Co Courthouse

Mail address: P.O. Box 1716, Princeton, WV 24740
Hours: 8:30-4:30 (plan on 9-4) weekdays ;)
Enter through the door on the West side of Courthouse Circle.
Phone numbers: (Area Code 304) clerk: 487-8313, deeds: 487-8321,
birth/marriage/deeds: 487-8313,
Fiduciary/wills/Estates: 487-8312.

Mercer Co Historical Society

P.O. Box 5012
Princeton, WV 24740.

Publishes Dateline, a (one page) monthly newsletter. Dues are $10.00

News from MCHS

Our sources say the MCH Society voted to pursue acceptance of the McNutt Civil War Home from the Hunnicut Foundation. They are now exchanging the deed and will soon own it outright. "It's our biggest to date preservation effort. Most of Princeton and Mercer is fast disappearing from our sight...."

The Middle New River Genealogical Society

has a newsletter in planning. For more information contact:
Mrs. Lena Hall

P.O. Box 1844
Princeton, WV 24740

A History of the Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory

This book, originally published by David E. Johnston in 1906, and reprinted many times is still available but often at "outrageous" prices. ... NOW, it's being posted on-line at URL: http://www.kinyon.com/westvirginia/midnewriver/contents.htm.

Misadventure in Princeton in 1852

Or an Englishman's Thrilling Experiences in Mercer County

This is an excerpt, Edited by Kyle McCormick, from With Border Ruffians, by Williams, Robert H., relating his stay in the Mercer/ Wyoming Co area
For what looks to be the entire text of William's book, including his stay in Bloody Kansas, and later years in Texas, see www.civilwarancestor.com/store/files/Ebook0107.htm

The Late Unpleasantness

The organization, some history, and unit roster of the 151st Militia Regiment (Mercer County) is presented here, with the kind permission of Bill Crews, who did the hard work of researching the Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from Virginia, Microfilm Copy 324, Role 1060, National Archives. I found one of my gggfathers in this unit, how about you? I've added some information about the other units brigaded with the 151st.

News From Home

Princeton Times online edition

Bluefield Daily Telegraph online edition

1896 Bluefield Daily Telegraph

From a microfilm copy of their early numbers, the Bluefield Telephone Directory, births, marriages and other items with genealogical interest from January, February & March 1896 [now Indexed].

Diane Roberts provided this transcription of similar articles from 1897-1905, in MS Word format:

Formation of Mercer Co

is described in this sketch from Official Blue Book of Mercer County

Boundary Changes

View these "rough" maps showing Mercer County's boundary changes.

Historic Bramwell, WV

Got an empty hour? Visit this imaginative, graphics-heavy tour of Bramwell, with side trips to Freeman and Nemours. Many pages take a while to load, there' SO many pictures .

McComas, WV

The website of Patricia Smith, devoted to her McComas memories & roots

Other Communities' Histories

Four more communities' histories, posted on WV Archives webpages: Athens, Glenwood, Pisgah, & Spanishburg.

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Genealogically Oriented Pages

Surname Register

Let me ADD your SURNAME to our Register

of researchers' email addresses.

Researcher's WebPages

And if you have a WebPage, covering your Mercer Co families, send the , surnames and URL to me and I'll post it.

Query Page

Visit our Query Page, and see if you can help your fellow researchers, or post your own query about Mercer County families

Books for Sale & Lookup

Check out the list of books currently available from various vendors, and those for which Lookup Offers have been made. Let me post your books here if you're willing to help others.

I also post there the contact info for persons willing to do research "for hire".

Index to 1870 Mercer Co, WV Census

Mercer Co Cemeteries

Check the Mercer Co page in the Tombstone Inscription Project

Privately Contributed Data, Outside Archives

Will of Joseph Bradford, probated 1869. (Microsoft Word)

Read/Reed/Reid marriages in Mercer Co 1856-1899 (ASCII text)

Establishing a monument to Spanishburg, WV pioneers, Jeremiah and Mary Solesbury
Shrewsbury/Shrewsberry descendents check this out.

Where to Write for Vital Statistics

This WebSite <http://www.vitalrec.com/wv.html> has address for both state and counties

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Shortcuts to Neighboring Counties

Wyoming Co      Raleigh Co    Summers Co
McDowell Co     Mercer Co   Monroe Co
Tazewell Co     Bland
Co      Giles Co

Shortcuts to Ancestor Counties

      Charles River Co                   Chickacoan Indian District
      name changed to                             |
    York Co (1642/43)                  Northumberland Co (1648)
        |  !__________________________________.___!
        |                                     |
    New Kent Co (1654)                    Lancaster Co (1651)
        |                                     |
 King and Queen Co (1691)           Rappahanock Co
(1656-1692) defunct
       |  |____________                       |
       |               |                      |
       |     King William Co (1702)      Essex Co (1692)
       !__________.____!______________________!
                  |
            Spotsylvania Co (1721)
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            Orange Co (1734)
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              Augusta Co (1745)
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                   Botetourt Co (1770)
                              |
                          Fincastle Co# (1772-1777) defunct
                              |
                         Montgomery Co (1777)
                              |        |
                              |    Wythe Co(1790)   See
Notes
                              |        !______.____________!
                              |               |
              See Notes       |      Tazewell Co(1800)
                   !_____.____!_________!    |
                         |                   |
                     Giles Co (1806)
                            !___.____________!
                                |
                         Mercer Co (1837)

Notes

Counties removed from the chart because
they did not contribute land to Mercer Co
Monroe Co contributed to Giles Co
Russell Co contributed to Tazewell Co