On April 11, 1853, the General Assembly of the State of Virginia passed an Act requiring that each county clerk keep marriage, birth and death records for his county—beginning January 1, 1854. The information required was place and date of death, full name, sex, age, condition (married or not), color of deceased (white or colored), if colored whether free or slave; if slave, name of owner, occupation of deceased, place of birth, name of husband or wife, and cause of death.
Elizabeth R. Frain and Marty Hiatt
(1998), 2007, 5½x8½, paper, index, 328 pp.
ISBN: 9781888265620
101-F0062
