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The largest section concentrates on Page County's Civil War history, including military organizations, little-known battles, local military leaders and units, and genealogical resources. Further genealogy articles discuss Huguenots and Hessians as well as some local families: Aleshire, Broyles, Cave, Chapman, Dorraugh, Dovel, Hilliard, Kiser, Nauman, Nicholson, Purdom and Roudabush. Many good research leads are provided. The final section covers a wide assortment of subjects, from locally cultivated apple varieties to witches. The comprehensive index includes names, places, events and military units.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert H. 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The book, page number, and date precedes each abstract. Many of these abstracts name wife, wife’s maiden name, her parents, and children. A full-name index is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmelia C. 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This volume is arranged in chronological sections: Pre-Colonial, Early Colonial and the Revolution (sixteen articles); Early and Antebellum Page County (sixteen articles); American Civil War (twenty-nine articles); World War I (ten articles); Post World War I Military (three articles); Surnames and Genealogical Research Tools (twenty-eight articles); and Miscellaneous (three articles). The first two sections discuss Native American raids, European immigration, travel, slavery and life in early Page County. The Civil War section tells about Confederate women spies, various battles, Loyalist claims, postwar pensions, and Confederate veterans. The World War I section describes the wartime and postwar experiences of some of Page County's veterans. The Surnames and Genealogical Research Tools section gives lots of good advice and includes articles on the following Page County families: Booton\/Booten, Finter, Forrer, Gibbons, Ham, Harris, Huffman, Jordan, Keyser, Kite, Pence, Richards, and Stoneberger. The final section covers historic sites and tourism in Page County. The comprehensive index includes names, places, events and military units.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert H. 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This massive undertaking not only reproduces the service record of the Confederate soldiers from Page County who served in all the theaters of combat, but it also gives extremely valuable information regarding the soldier's family. whenever possible, the author has searched out birth and death dates, as well as places when known; the wife's name and her vital statistics; parents' names; children, and their spouses, and a wealth of other miscellaneous information. Several appendices contain the soldiers' names with their unit designations for quick reference; soldiers buried in the county; a listing of county cemeteries with finding directions; and an extensive bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas M. 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These can be extremely valuable in discerning the area and social status of a family, as well as giving an insight into the occupations. In addition, this researcher uncovered more than 125 mis-transcriptions of names, as well as five families simply omitted in the earlier publication. Hence this new census transcription.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam M. Keyes, an Assistant to the Marshall of the Western District of Virginia, conducted the census to reflect the households of the county as they existed on June 1, 1840. The census was taken over the summer and early fall of that year, and he had his work certified by a justice of the peace on October 30, 1840. In all, the total population of the county consisted of 6,184 souls, made up from 898 households. A total of 741 slaves were held by 170 families, or about one in five families. Only a relative few held more than ten slaves. The only town in the county and the county seat, Luray, consisted of 375 persons, including 96 slaves, distributed among forty families. The only other large settlements were located at the foundaries of Blackford and Forrer's, the two primary manufacturing centers. By and large, the remainder of the county was a rural, agricultural area. Mills were scattered throughout the county, as later references show, but none of the were reflected in the census documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne important area overlooked in the census data for 1840 is that of education. The presence of at least ten organized primary or common schools attest to the emphasis placed upon education by most families. Of all the adults over 21 in the county, about 330 listed themselves as unable to read and write. This information is contained at the far right margin of the second folio in each entry. Research in the location of these schools would probably reveal a great deal about the growth of small hamlets and later urban settlements in the county. While Luray was the only community singled out in the census, smaller hamlets such as Stanley, Marksville, Rileyville, Stony Man, and others were beginning to emerge by this time. 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As reported in the December 22, 1892 edition of the \u003cem\u003ePage News and Courier\u003c\/em\u003e, most county records were hidden in a cave (on William R. Almond's farm near Hope Mills) during the Civil War. When the boxes were taken out of the cave, it was discovered that they were floating in water. The existing copy is more than likely the Sheriff's copy. A valuable tool for researching valley families.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChester E. 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