In the Dick Smith Library, in the old Commissioner of Court minutes is a section about the poor farm in the 1880s. My great-grandfather, Terrell Bryan, was superintendent of the poor farm for a while. I did see a list of some of the residents of the poor farm in the book. Diana Bryan Quinn Virginia Beach, Virginia My Genealogy Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bryanquinn/index.htm