Heather, I'm researching Childress as well. My great-grandmother, Sallie Margaret Childress was born in 1871 in Augusta County. She was the daughter of Patrick H Childress and Martha F. She married Adam Leslie Drumheller in 1895 and died in 1925. Does this tie to any of your research? Dixie Halber [email protected] ps - if I don't respond to you for a while it's because I'm going away on vacation and won't be back until after the 4th. Some of that time will be spent at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City!

I have a Charles Campbell, son of Robert Campbell born in Augusta Co, Va but I don't have the year. He has at least two brothers, John and Hugh. Then Hugh has a son named Charles who married a woman named Rachel but I don't have any details. Peggy

Is there anyone on the list tracing the Charles Campbell and Mary Alexander line? I have been looking at some records on this family and it appears that there maybe two Charles Campbell's and this has caused some confusion. From what I have found, one Charles Campbell married Mary A. DOWNEY and they had a daughter named Mary "Polly" Campbell who was BORN 1799 in Fayette County, KY. The Charles Campbell that I am tracking married Mary ALEXANDER and they had a daughter, Mary "Polly" Campbell who MARRIED James McClung in 1799 Augusta County, VA. Both Charles Campbell's can be found the 1810 census. One is in Fayette County, KY with several small children, and the other in either Rockbridge or Augusta County with no small children. It is unknown if these two Campbell men are related. Can anyone help me with this? Anita McClung Fayette County, WV

Greetings All, I blundered and hope that my error will help fellow researchers. While searching for cemeteries in Augusta County, I found a fabulous link at http://www.geocities.com/augcem/index.html?1018315012530. After looking at a few, the Hammond Family Cemetery revealed quite a few of my relatives at http://www.geocities.com/augcem/Hammond.html. I quickly saved the webpage as an HTML document, failing to preserve the actual address of the web-page and the source of the data. I had to search for it on-line and cross my fingers that it was there. I'll soon be devising a procedure for recording these addresses and sources within the document that I save on my computer. Anyone researching Florence V. Bell, wife of John Bell whose maiden name was Monroe is encouraged to contact me at [email protected] Heather

Sarah, I have some definite recent connection with my family and the Childress family of Augusta County and a possible earlier connection with the Chandler family, but I can't remember off the top of my head where the Chandler connection may have been. The Childress was married to my grandmother's sister. If you are interested in anything that recent, feel free to e-mail me. Perhaps we can put our heads together. [email protected] Heather PS Researching Monroe, Lawhorn, Tankesley, Desper, Mutherspaw, Reynolds >>X-Symantec-TimeoutProtection: 0 >>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:38:12 -0600 >>X-From_: [email protected] Thu Jun 24 18:38:12 2004 >>From: "Kevin and Sarah Mock" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Old-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:38:29 -0400 >>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 >>X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >>Subject: Re: [VAAUGUST] Augusta County Research >>X-Envelope-To: VAAUGUST-L >>X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.88493E-141; #1: 1 >>X-NAS-Classification: 0 >>X-NAS-MessageID: 2439 >>X-NAS-Validation: {86975100-D96B-11D6-BB85-A6A73EB70F22} >> >>I have enjoyed receiving the e-mails about Augusta County Research. My >>family, too, is from Augusta County. The family surnames I am extremely >>interested in are Thompson, Davis, Chandler, Childress. Can anyone assist >>me in this endeavor? By the way, I have only been able to trace my family >>back to Berry Thompson and Eliza Davis...married approximately 1838. Any >>information would be appreciated. >>Also, I have enjoyed the information and links to Augusta County research. >>Of interest, you all may want to know that much of Augusta County is on >>Microfilm and can be viewed through inter-library loan at your local library >>from the Library of Virginia, for free. Their microfilm is on line and I >>have gleaned a lot of information from them. Just thought I would pass that >>tidbit along. >>Sarah Mock >>Charleston, SC > > > > >==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== >**************************************************************** >List Administrator >Barbara Stanley - [email protected] >**************************************************************** > > >

Sarah: Do you have the e-mail link to that on line site for Augusta County? Kathy

>X-Symantec-TimeoutProtection: 0 >Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:38:12 -0600 >X-From_: [email protected] Thu Jun 24 18:38:12 2004 >From: "Kevin and Sarah Mock" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Old-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:38:29 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >Subject: Re: [VAAUGUST] Augusta County Research >X-Envelope-To: VAAUGUST-L >X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 2.88493E-141; #1: 1 >X-NAS-Classification: 0 >X-NAS-MessageID: 2439 >X-NAS-Validation: {86975100-D96B-11D6-BB85-A6A73EB70F22} > >I have enjoyed receiving the e-mails about Augusta County Research. My >family, too, is from Augusta County. The family surnames I am extremely >interested in are Thompson, Davis, Chandler, Childress. Can anyone assist >me in this endeavor? By the way, I have only been able to trace my family >back to Berry Thompson and Eliza Davis...married approximately 1838. Any >information would be appreciated. >Also, I have enjoyed the information and links to Augusta County research. >Of interest, you all may want to know that much of Augusta County is on >Microfilm and can be viewed through inter-library loan at your local library >from the Library of Virginia, for free. Their microfilm is on line and I >have gleaned a lot of information from them. Just thought I would pass that >tidbit along. >Sarah Mock >Charleston, SC

Messages of this type will not be tolerated! Comments about such messages should be sent to me personally and NOT TO THE LIST! I am the List Administrator and will take care of any problem with the list! [email protected] There were 4 replies (so far) and 3 of the 4 still had the original message attached. Which means you helped get the message out! STOP IT NOW!!! Barb S. List Administrator

I just logged in to the Augusta Co. Mail List. I am not sure what is going on yet and will send another e-mail when I read all of this and find out the problem. In the meantime - Do Not Send Any More E-Mails About the Subject "Worst President" !!!!! Barbara Stanley Augusta Co. List Administrator

Tell the LIST why VAAUGUST prints such garbage ie; "LEN SMITH" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Smith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: [VAAUGUST] Fw: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Walter Hutchison > To: Barbara & Joe Rudd ; Maxinne Saling ; Leonard Smith ; Susan M. Anderson > ; Gene Chouinard ; Shirley Deutschman ; Tom , Marilyn Hiatt ; Delbert > Hutchison > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:55 PM > Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! > > > > > > !!! > > > There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of > January..... in the fair city of Detroit (Michigan) there were 35 murders in > the month of January. That's one American city folks, about as deadly as the > entire war torn country of Iraq! > > Worst president in history? > > The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the > editor. > > Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They > complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was > the worst president in U..S. history. Let's clear up one point: We didn't > start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists > BEFORE 9/11. > > Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims. > > > > FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. > > >From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. > > > > Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never > attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 > per year. > > > > John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never > attacked us. I think history might show Eisenhower committed the troops and > Kennedy was honoring that commitment. > > Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. >From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were > lost, an average of 5,800 per year. > > > > Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never > attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times > by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. > > > > In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has > liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear > inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and > captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 > soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not > allowing another terrorist attack at home. > > > > Worst president in history? Come on! > > The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but... > > > > It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch > Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation. > > > > We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time > than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. > > > > It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy > the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police > after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquidd > > It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in > Florida!!!! > > > The liberal agenda is anti-american > > Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON. > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > > > ==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== > **************************************************************** > List Administrator > Barbara Stanley - [email protected] > **************************************************************** > >

This is not needed to be on this line and you need to read some history. Kennedy was stuck with Vietnam and you should be removed from this line, because you just degraded all the work alot of people have done and upset them so their is not any forgiveness in this matter.

How is this related to Augusta County Genealogy? I hope you posted this in error . Thanks, KYleen Gavin Researching: KYLE, CUSHING, YONT, YOST, ----- Original Message ----- From: Len Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: [VAAUGUST] Fw: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Hutchison To: Barbara & Joe Rudd ; Maxinne Saling ; Leonard Smith ; Susan M. Anderson ; Gene Chouinard ; Shirley Deutschman ; Tom , Marilyn Hiatt ; Delbert Hutchison Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! !!! There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January..... in the fair city of Detroit (Michigan) there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's one American city folks, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq! Worst president in history? The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the editor. Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U..S. history. Let's clear up one point: We didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11. Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims. FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. >From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. I think history might show Eisenhower committed the troops and Kennedy was honoring that commitment. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. >From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home. Worst president in history? Come on! The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but... It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation. We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquidd It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!! The liberal agenda is anti-american Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! ==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== **************************************************************** List Administrator Barbara Stanley - [email protected] ****************************************************************

----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Hutchison To: Barbara & Joe Rudd ; Maxinne Saling ; Leonard Smith ; Susan M. Anderson ; Gene Chouinard ; Shirley Deutschman ; Tom , Marilyn Hiatt ; Delbert Hutchison Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! !!! There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January..... in the fair city of Detroit (Michigan) there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's one American city folks, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq! Worst president in history? The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the editor. Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U..S. history. Let's clear up one point: We didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11. Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims. FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. >From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. I think history might show Eisenhower committed the troops and Kennedy was honoring that commitment. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. >From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home. Worst president in history? Come on! The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but... It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation. We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquidd It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!! The liberal agenda is anti-american Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

Craig County Heritage Book sponsored by the Craig - Botetourt Genealogy Club is nearing completion. This update has been long awaited by many of you. I want to thank everyone who helped with this project, and give you the opportunity to make a last minute preprint purchase. This will be the last time this book is offered at this price. Once the book is printed the price will go up. For details Please contact me privately < [email protected] >

This is a genealogy site-not a site for one's own personal political agenda! Please do not use this site in this way! -----Original Message----- From: Len Smith <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:42 AM Subject: [VAAUGUST] Fw: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Walter Hutchison >To: Barbara & Joe Rudd ; Maxinne Saling ; Leonard Smith ; Susan M. Anderson >; Gene Chouinard ; Shirley Deutschman ; Tom , Marilyn Hiatt ; Delbert >Hutchison >Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:55 PM >Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Worst President??? NOT!!! > > > > > > !!! > > > There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of >January..... in the fair city of Detroit (Michigan) there were 35 murders in >the month of January. That's one American city folks, about as deadly as the >entire war torn country of Iraq! > > Worst president in history? > > The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the >editor. > > Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They >complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was >the worst president in U..S. history. Let's clear up one point: We didn't >start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists >BEFORE 9/11. > > Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims. > > > > FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. > > >From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. > > > > Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never >attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 >per year. > > > > John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never >attacked us. I think history might show Eisenhower committed the troops and >Kennedy was honoring that commitment. > > Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. >From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were >lost, an average of 5,800 per year. > > > > Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never >attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times >by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. > > > > In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has >liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear >inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and >captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 >soldiers, an average of 300 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not >allowing another terrorist attack at home. > > > > Worst president in history? Come on! > > The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but... > > > > It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch >Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation. > > > > We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time >than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records. > > > > It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy >the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police >after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquidd > > It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in >Florida!!!! > > > The liberal agenda is anti-american > > Our military is GREAT! PASS IT ON. > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >---- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > > >==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== >**************************************************************** >List Administrator >Barbara Stanley - [email protected] >**************************************************************** >

Dear Susie:Thank you for identifying the "Chancery Room". The case I was looking for was identified in Chalkley as "Circuit Court Causes Ended. Sheffets Administrator vs Rankins Administrator: O.S. 357; N.S. 129". I asked the clerks in the Will/Deed office how to find this and they sent me over to the "Chancery Room". I asked the nice woman as the reception desk how to find this. She put her finger to her head, saying "I think I know exactly where that is." She then lead me to a small back room with stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of old boxes [probably measuring about 12" x 17" x 4" each would be my very rough guess -- I would also guess there were easily 400 boxes within my direct line of vision] She pulled out one which contained the above case (plus many. many others). All the documents were very, very old. Folded, wrapped with twine or ribbon in some cases. Sounds like I hit this on a lucky day. I would understand quite perfectly that the stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of boxes in this room could not be practically or economically microfilmed. I don't know the rules about access to those files. I have to say that I was thrilled that they are kept safe. I was standing there holding in my hand a letter written on May 11, 1811 by my gggggg grandfather, David Dryden Jr to his sister. It was an amazing experience -- almost surreal -- to hold the actual paper, see the slightly fading ink, look at his handwriting [quite beautiful, actually]. I was grateful it was there. Norman, I don't know the protocol for people traipsing into the "Chancery Room". I know the clerks in the Will/Deed rooms were nice and helpful. This was clearly a working office. Lots of people pawing through the Will/Deed books -- but I presume most of them were perhaps Title Researchers. [None of them shouted out 'Come here, Sam, here's Thomas Berry's 1775 deed. :>)] Clearly my husband and I were the only 'genealogy people' there that day -- with our befuddled faces and slow reviews of many different Will/Deed books and constant checking of the main Index. The office staff couldn't have been nicer. The same holds true for the 'Chancery Room' staff. No one was in there pawing through those boxes. I don't know how many befuddled Seattle people come through the Chancery Room, but they were also most helpful. I would take Susie's advice and contact the Historical Society for another researcher. I wish you the best of luck. Carol VassKent, WA

[email protected] writes: > That room "The Chancery Room" is indexed in large books by plaintiff & > defendant. The records are currently being taken out of those boxes and put > into archival safe boxes and folders. The first 300 or so boxes have > already been done. Where they are going to be stored when the project is It sounds like the NS/OS things may refer to box / package numbers or some other kind of filing scheme (see below). > complete has not been answered yet. As to microfilming the records, I know > that it is a very expensive endeavor Hasn't this already been done? I'm just speaking off-hand; so much of this material has already been filmed, in other counties/jurisdictions, by the state &/or the FHL (Mormons). > research done, contact the Gen. Society, by mail, with specifics Which/where? Would you mean this: Augusta Genealogical Society http://members.tripod.com/~rockbridge/auggensoc.html Are they up to this sort of thing? Societies vary widely on court records ... often dislike dealing with them. I learned a little about my original query from the Library of VA: After some discussion among themselves, David Feinberg, reference librarian tells me: The letter S in N.S and O.S. refers to "series," not "style" in the court record filing system. But State Archivist Conley Edwards said it means "style". They also think these items are Augusta Co entries. [I think reading between the lines here, one can't be completely certain, because Chalkley did not annotate thoroly.] If these are "circuit court" entries from the late 18th- early 19th century, what was the "circuit" that Augusta was in? In my case, Frederick Co would make more sense as the originating place of the Barnett vs Helm suit. Were they in the same circuit then? Thanks, ==mwh

Norman & Carol, That room "The Chancery Room" is indexed in large books by plaintiff & defendant. The records are currently being taken out of those boxes and put into archival safe boxes and folders. The first 300 or so boxes have already been done. Where they are going to be stored when the project is complete has not been answered yet. As to microfilming the records, I know that it is a very expensive endeavor and I do not think that the Historical or Gen. Society has the funds to take on such a project. If you need research done, contact the Gen. Society, by mail, with specifics and they will get back to you and let you know if they can help you. Good luck/Susie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Runyon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [VAAUGUST] Court records in Augusta > Hi Carol, > How were you able to find what you wanted among the documents in that > room? I was told about those files by a researcher whom I hired in Staunton, > several years ago, but she said there was no filing system for the records > and that she would just have to wade through them one bundle at a time until > she found what I wanted. She never was able to do the digging for me because > she passed away shortly after I hired her. Ever since then I have been > hoping that someone - maybe the genealogical and/or historical society - > would organize everything and (maybe) microfilm it all so that it could be > easily used by everyone. That room has to be one big GOLD MINE! (I got the > impression that there might be more stuff stacked, in a similar way, down in > a basement of the courthouse -but I could be wrong about that.) > I am looking for the estate papers and some related lawsuits for Jacob > Goodpasture in 1766-67. I have some of the papers but not nearly all of > them. > Norman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:35 AM > Subject: [VAAUGUST] Court records in Augusta > > > > Dear Michael:I'm sure more experienced people will repond to you about the > court records in Augusta. I had the opportunity to be in Augusta about two > years ago. Went to the courthouse to find a number of Wills and > Deeds --using Chalkley as a guide -- found everything (plus two deeds not > indexed in Chalkley) -- all of these were kept in one big room. When I > asked the clerk how I would find a court case [with one of those O.S. N.S. > numbers [for a court case in 1811 which I knew about also from Chalkley], > they send me to an office -- just across the hall -- where I asked for the > file by those OS/NS numbers. The clerk took me back into a small room > stacked to the ceiling with small old file boxes. Dozens of cases kept in > each box. These were the original documents, folded, tied together of a > lawsuit instituted in Augusta in 1825. Most of the parties did not live in > Augusta at the time, but the case revolved around an 1808 Augusta estate. I > was allowed to photocopy the ! > > entire case -- including an original 1811 letter written by a > gggggg-grandfather, other documents presented as evidence in the case and > the courts final judgment. > > You may want to try to find an Augusta researcher who you could hire to > make copies of the cases you are interested in. Perhaps other people on > this list know the name of the court 'across the hall' and can give better > information. I don't know if it is possible to send a letter and request > copies made by the clerks or not. I'm pretty sure you can do that for Wills > and Deeds -- but may be wrong on that. > > Good luck, > > Carol Vass > > > ==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== > **************************************************************** > List Administrator > Barbara Stanley - [email protected] > **************************************************************** >

Hi Carol, How were you able to find what you wanted among the documents in that room? I was told about those files by a researcher whom I hired in Staunton, several years ago, but she said there was no filing system for the records and that she would just have to wade through them one bundle at a time until she found what I wanted. She never was able to do the digging for me because she passed away shortly after I hired her. Ever since then I have been hoping that someone - maybe the genealogical and/or historical society - would organize everything and (maybe) microfilm it all so that it could be easily used by everyone. That room has to be one big GOLD MINE! (I got the impression that there might be more stuff stacked, in a similar way, down in a basement of the courthouse -but I could be wrong about that.) I am looking for the estate papers and some related lawsuits for Jacob Goodpasture in 1766-67. I have some of the papers but not nearly all of them. Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:35 AM Subject: [VAAUGUST] Court records in Augusta > Dear Michael:I'm sure more experienced people will repond to you about the court records in Augusta. I had the opportunity to be in Augusta about two years ago. Went to the courthouse to find a number of Wills and Deeds --using Chalkley as a guide -- found everything (plus two deeds not indexed in Chalkley) -- all of these were kept in one big room. When I asked the clerk how I would find a court case [with one of those O.S. N.S. numbers [for a court case in 1811 which I knew about also from Chalkley], they send me to an office -- just across the hall -- where I asked for the file by those OS/NS numbers. The clerk took me back into a small room stacked to the ceiling with small old file boxes. Dozens of cases kept in each box. These were the original documents, folded, tied together of a lawsuit instituted in Augusta in 1825. Most of the parties did not live in Augusta at the time, but the case revolved around an 1808 Augusta estate. I was allowed to photocopy the ! > entire case -- including an original 1811 letter written by a gggggg-grandfather, other documents presented as evidence in the case and the courts final judgment. > You may want to try to find an Augusta researcher who you could hire to make copies of the cases you are interested in. Perhaps other people on this list know the name of the court 'across the hall' and can give better information. I don't know if it is possible to send a letter and request copies made by the clerks or not. I'm pretty sure you can do that for Wills and Deeds -- but may be wrong on that. > Good luck, > Carol Vass

Dear Michael:I'm sure more experienced people will repond to you about the court records in Augusta. I had the opportunity to be in Augusta about two years ago. Went to the courthouse to find a number of Wills and Deeds --using Chalkley as a guide -- found everything (plus two deeds not indexed in Chalkley) -- all of these were kept in one big room. When I asked the clerk how I would find a court case [with one of those O.S. N.S. numbers [for a court case in 1811 which I knew about also from Chalkley], they send me to an office -- just across the hall -- where I asked for the file by those OS/NS numbers. The clerk took me back into a small room stacked to the ceiling with small old file boxes. Dozens of cases kept in each box. These were the original documents, folded, tied together of a lawsuit instituted in Augusta in 1825. Most of the parties did not live in Augusta at the time, but the case revolved around an 1808 Augusta estate. I was allowed to photocopy the ! entire case -- including an original 1811 letter written by a gggggg-grandfather, other documents presented as evidence in the case and the courts final judgment. You may want to try to find an Augusta researcher who you could hire to make copies of the cases you are interested in. Perhaps other people on this list know the name of the court 'across the hall' and can give better information. I don't know if it is possible to send a letter and request copies made by the clerks or not. I'm pretty sure you can do that for Wills and Deeds -- but may be wrong on that. Good luck, Carol Vass