Virginia School Commissioners - 1846 The Virginia School Commissioners were the antebellum equivalent of the modern school boards. This listing was abstracted from Document No. 4 of the Governor's Message and Annual Reports of the Public Officers of the State, and Boards of Directors, Visitors, Superintendents, and other Agents of Public Institutions or Interests of Virginia Printed under resolutions March 18, 1847, Samuel Shepherd, Public Printer, Richmond, 1847. Buckingham County: N. A. Holman, William H. Tapscott, James Harris, E. G. Hanes, Robert T. Hubbard, Fr. Thornton, George W. Kyle, Lewis W. Cabell. James City County: H. B. M. Richardson, George C. Richardson, Thomas Harris, John T. Marston, F. D. Piggott, H. L. Taylor, William T. Lindsey, Robert Morris, Richard C. Wynne. Louisa County: Col. William O. Harris, Charles B. Hopkins, Hiram Sanders, Charles C. Jennings, John R. Quarles, William D. Mansfield, William J. Pendleton, Samuel A. Guy, Archibald Anderson, John S. May, Robert M. Kent, Thomas Shelton. Rockingham County: Edward H. Smith, W. G. Stevens, John Vigar, A. Hopkins, Jesse Ralston, William C. Harrison, Jacob Trumbe, William G. Thompson, Reuben Moore, Joseph H. Conrad, George W. Kemper, Jonathan Peale, W. H. Harris. Surry County: William H. Edwards, William P. Underwood, Jacob Faulcon, David Hargrave, James Carroll, Bolling Ellis, James Harris.