Taylor County Public Library
200 Beech St.
Grafton, WV 26354

The Taylor County Public Library has a genealogical division, maintained in cooperation with the Taylor County Historical and Genealogical Society. The Taylor County Historical and Genealogical Society has purchased over 1200 genealogical and historical references and many more have been donated.

Taylor County Clerk
Courthouse
214 W. Main St.
Grafton, WV 26354

The following vital records are available from 1854: marriage, death, birth, wills, probate records, land tax books. Deed records are available from 1844.

Melba Pender Zinn
Route 3, Box 169
Grafton, WV 26354

Melba Pender Zinn does genealogical research in the West Virgina and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV for Taylor, Marion, Monongalia, and Preston Counties. Melba is the great-great-granddaughter of T. Bailey Brown, first casualty of the Civil War.

Grafton National Cemetery
431 Walnut St.
Grafton, WV 26354

The Grafton National Cemetery was established in 1867, and within two years, 1,251 bodies of both Union and Confederate troops, 664 of these unknown, were interred. Burial records indicate the location from which all bodies were disinterred. The cemetery is comprised on 3.21 acres and in 1961 reached its capacity of 2,134 with no undeveloped area for expansion.

West Virginia National Cemetery
Route 2, Box 127
Grafton, WV 26354

The West Virginia National Cemetery in Pruntytown was dedicated in 1987 and succeeds the Grafton National Cemetery in providing approximately 3,000 new grave sites.