Calhoun County, VA was part of Gilmer County until March 5, 1856 when the Virginia State Legislature created the county of Calhoun from the territory of Gilmer County. These birth-death records are part of the Virginia system of volunteer collection of the data within each county at the time of creation. Virginia began collecting this data in 1853 state wide. In these are the name/date/sex/parents and other information. In Calhoun County there were 1739 names indexed for these records. It is sad to see a child born in one set of records and the mother and child died in the next set all within a few days of each other.
James L. Douthat
8.5" x 11", paper, full name index, 46 pp.
ISBN: 9780788481277
101E-WV0101
