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WELCOME! To Botetourt County, Virginia A
Project of the VaGenWeb
This is a part of the USGenWeb project, which is an effort to
organize genealogical materials on the Internet. The
Botetourt County Coordinator: Rena Worthen Email
Rena Worthen materials to add,
suggestions, comments – Always welcomed!.
Assistant: BarbR
Email BarbR if
you see any broken links or other design issues.
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County Facts
(src: Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia)
Botetourt County was created in 1770 from part of
Augusta County and was named for Norborne Berkley, known as Lord Botetourt.
It originally comprised a vast area, which included the southern portion of
present day West Virginia and all of Kentucky. Portions were set off to form
new counties beginning in 1772, until the current borders were established in
1851
Botetourt County is part of the Roanoke Virginia
Metropolitan Statistical Area , and the county seat is the town of Fincastle.
As of 2020 census, the county population was 33,596. The area has seen growth
in recent decades, with the population increasing more that 30% between the
1990 census & the 2010 census.
Towns:
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Buchanan
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Fincastle (County
Seat)
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Troutville
Census-designated places:
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Blue Ridge
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Cloverdale
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Daleville
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Laymantown
Unincorporated communities:
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Arcadia
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Eagle Rock
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Glen Wilton
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Haden
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Hollins
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Lithia
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Nace
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Oriskany
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Springwood
Botetourt County Court House, Fincastle, VA
(src: Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia)
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Botetourt County At Its Formation
1895 Map (src: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Location
of Botetourt County within State of Virginia (src: Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia)
Current Map
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A schematic chart showing
dates of formation, and lineage of counties formed from the original
Botetourt County
Botetourt Co (1770) | |--Fincastle Co (1772) | | extinguished as a county in 1777 | | | |--Kentucky Co (1777) - now the State of Kentucky | | | extinguished as a county in 1780, territory ceded by VA to Federal Govt. in 1789 | | | | | |--Fayette Co (1780) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present WV county) | | | | | | | |--Bourbon Co (1786) - before KY separated from VA | | | | | | | | | |--Mason Co (1789) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present WV county) | | | | | | | |--Woodford Co (1789 - before KY separated from VA | | | | | |--Jefferson Co (1780) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present WV county) | | | | | | | |--Nelson Co (1785) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present VA county) | | | | | |--Lincoln Co (1780) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present WV county) | | | | | | | |--Madison Co (1786) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present WV county) | | | | | | | |--Mercer Co (1786) - before KY separated from VA (NOT the present WV county) | | | | |--Montgomery Co (1777) | | | | | |--Wythe Co (1790) | | | | | | | |--Grayson Co (1793) | | | | | | | | | |--Carroll Co (1842) | | | | | | | |--Tazewell Co (1800) in part, with Russell County | | | | | | | |--McDowell Co (1858) | | | | | |--Giles Co (1806) in part, with Monroe and Tazewell Counties | | | | | | | |--Mercer Co (1837) in part, with Tazewell County - now in WV | | | | | | | |--Bland Co (1861) in part, with Wythe and Tazewell Counties | | | | | |--Floyd Co (1831) | | | | | |--Pulaski Co (1839) in part, with Wythe County | | | |--Washington Co (1777) | | | | | |--Russell Co (1786) | | | | | | | |--Lee Co (1793) | | | | | | | |--Wise Co (1856) in part, with Lee and Scott Counties | | | | | | | |--Buchanan Co (1858) in part, with Tazewell County | | | | | | | |--Dickenson Co (1880) in part, with Wise and Buchanan Counties | | | | | |--Scott Co (1814) in part, with Lee and Russell Counties | | | |--Smyth Co (1832) in part, with Wythe Co | |--Greenbrier Co (1778 in part, with Montgomery and Augusta Counties) - now in WV | | | |--Kanawha Co (1789) in part, with Montgomery County - now in WV | | | | | |--Cabell Co (1809) - now in WV | | | | | | | |--Wayne Co (1842) - now in WV. | | | | | |--Logan Co (1824) in part, with Giles, Cabell and Tazewell Counties - now in WV | | | | | | | |--Wyoming Co (1850) - now in WV | | | | | | | |--Mingo Co (1895) - then in WV | | | | | |--Jackson Co (1831) in part, with Mason and Wood Counties - now in WV | | | | | | | |--Wirt Co (1848) in part, with Wood County - now in WV | | | | | |--Braxton Co (1836) in part, with Lewis and Nicholas Counties - now in WV | | | | | |--Gilmer Co (1845) in part, with Lewis County - now in WV | | | | | |--Boone Co (1847) in part, with Cabell and Logan Counties - now in WV | | | | | |--Putnam Co (1848 in part, with Cabell and Mason Counties) - now in WV | | | | | |--Roane Co (1856) in part, with Jackson and Gilmer Counties - now in WV | | | | | |--Lincoln Co (1867) in part, with Boone, Cabell, and Putnam Counties - then in WV | | | |--Monroe Co (1799) - now in WV | | | |--Mason Co (1804) - now in WV | | | |--Nicholas Co (1818) in part, with Kanawha and Randolph Counties - now in WV | | |--Clay Co (1858) in part, with Braxton County - now in WV | | | | | |--Webster Co (1860) in part, with Braxton and Randolph Counties - now in WV | | | |--Fayette Co (1831) - in part, with Logan, Nicholas, and Kanawha Counties now in WV | | | | | |--Raleigh Co (1850) - now in WV | | | |--Summers Co (1871) in part, with Mercer, Monroe, Fayette, and Counties - then in WV | |--Bath Co (1791) in part, with Augusta and Greenbrier Counties | | | |--Pocahontas Co (1821) in part, with Pendleton and Randolph Counties - now in WV | |--Alleghany Co in part, with Bath and Monroe Counties (1822) | |--Roanoke Co (1838) | |--Craig Co (1851) |
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Below you may find something of
interest to you. Please help get more information online for everyone to see.
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Botetourt County Virginia - Tithable Districts and Tithable
Lists
2021 We have just completed an exhaustive study of the
Botetourt County Virginia tithables covering the
decade of the 1770s, a time of rapid population migration from and within the
English colonies following the 1763 collapse of the French colonial holdings
in North America. This project presents transcriptions and images of the
original documents for the court records defining the tithable districts,
accurate GIS-based maps of the district boundaries, as well as the tithable
lists themselves. While the COVID pandemic has interrupted our effort at
acquiring a complete set of images from the Botetourt courthouse, LDS scans
are readily available online, and were used for the transcriptions. All of
this information, along with all supporting source citations, is available
for the general public at the website, shown below. Tithable lists are extremely valuable tools for
tracing the movement of individuals and families during this time period, and
the geolocation of the tithable district boundaries provides a geographic
context for the individuals identified on these lists. This project has
compiled transcriptions of all of the names contained within the Botetourt
County tithable lists from 1770 through 1777 into a single, searchable
spreadsheet-based data set, and virtually eliminated the effect of spelling
variants by assigning a common spelling in a searchable name field. It has
also provided a geographic framework, using GIS-based map graphics, of the
tithable district boundaries. It is our hope that this mapping effort, by
making all data, maps and sources easily available in a web-based
application, renders this important historic data useful, useable and
relevant for family historians. Jim Jackson |
African American Genealogy FINDING WHAT HAS BEEN LOST Presentation of the Botetourt Historical Society A comprehensive collection of African American Genealogy and History by Judy Barnett and comprised of about 1500 slides. It can be viewed at the Botetourt County Historical Society & Museum. 3 West Main St. Fincastle, VA 24090 1-540-473-8394 “I scanned it all and made the photos into a slide show. I am honored to have been a part of this presentation.” Rena Worthen, Botetourt County Coordinator for the VAGenWeb. |
Bibles |
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Biographies of People of Botetourt
County Information on this page provided by Jeff Scism, and may be found elsewhere on the web [Anna Pefley] [David Stoner] [Cary A. Moyer] [John Boswell] [Benjamin Kessler] [Callaway Pierce] [Catherine Peffley] [Catherine Pefley Grubb] [Christina Peffley] [Catherine Kessler Himes] [Clara Etta Mills Ghormley] [Daniel Arnold] [Daniel B Pefley] [David Henry Peffley] [David Rettinger] [Daniel Graybill] [Daniel H. Prunk M. D.] [Daniel Himes] [David Short] [Elizabeth Peffley Rettinger] [Elizabeth Pefley] [Elizabeth Pefley Smith] [Elizabeth Rettinger Bosseck] [E. L. Snodgrass] [Frances Pefley] [Franz O'Neall Myers] [George & Samuel Stover] [Hannah Pefley] [Henry Pefley] [Henry Peffley] [Jacob Peffley] [Jacob Pefley] [Jacob Harshbarger] [J. H. Coffman] [John B. Pefley] [James H. Stone] [James M. Otterman] [James Madison Coon] [Johann Adam Britz] [John B Peffley] [Jonathon Pefley] [Julia Ann Neff] [John Click] [John Frame] [Joseph Stover] [Josephus Graybill] [Magdalene Peffley] [Mary Elizabeth Pefley] [Mary Magdalene Robinson] [Mary Polly Pefley] [Martha Elinor Harris] [Nathan G Kesler] [Salome Brubaker] [Sarah Alice Peffley] [Sarah Garst] [Samuel D Stoner] [Samuel Graybill] [Samuel J Peffley] [Nelson Franklin Wood] [Solomon Pefley] [Tennessee Emma Sherfy] [The Peffley Families] [William B Pierce] [William M Frantz] [William Myers] [William Wood] [Old Letters from Botetourt County] |
Births BOTETOURT COUNTY BIRTH REGISTER These are images from film. Each page has two images. The quality isn't great, but they are readable. The image is about 8 X 10, so it loads slowly on dial-up. I hope these will be useful to someone. Each line reads across both pages so you may need to print out page 1 & 1a to get the full picture. This is not a difficult file to use. Transcriptions are being done on these pages by Dianne Metz. We are greatful for all of Dianne's effort. Some of these images are hard to read so this effort will be most helpful. Thank you Dianne. I credit Volunteers for making these pages so informative. Dianne is only Transcribing page 1-2-3 etc. for now 1a - 2a - 3a etc., will be done at a later date and added. PLEASE check below I have added page 1 & 1a and a transcription for 1 not 1a. and so on. Check back often for more information, and be patient with me as web adm, and Dianne as transcriber or pitch in and help. |
Cemeteries Contributed by the efforts of the Botetourt PHOTOS
NEEDED email Rena Worthen Tombstone Transcription Project Cemeteries and
Other Photos East Hill Cemetery in Salem VA[BR1] East Hill North Cemetery in Salem VA.: Sunset Cemetery Fairview
Cemetery, Roanoke, Va.: Here is a partial listing for Cedar Lawn gleaned from newspaper obituaries Here is a partial listing for Sherwood, gleaned from newspaper obituaries Mt.
Pleasant Church, Botetourt County, Virginia County
Line Primitive Baptist Church, Floyd, VA. |
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Census Botetourt County Census Indexes The 1930 Botetourt County Census transcribed for us by Donna Wood. This is a big job for one person to undertake. Her work is much appreciated. |
Churches Zion Hill Church History 8-12-1905 |
Deaths All the following death records 1853 - 1867 are Transcribed by Liz Black. This is a big project, and we have to thank her for taking on such a huge project. 1853 Botetourt County Death Records 1854 Botetourt County Death Records 1855 Botetourt County Death Records 1856 Botetourt County Death Records 1857 Botetourt County Death Records 1858 Botetourt County Death Records 1859 Botetourt County Death Records 1860 Botetourt County Death Records 1861 Botetourt County Death Records 1862 Botetourt County Death Records There are NO records for 1863 1864 Botetourt County Death Records 1865 Botetourt County Death Records 1866 Botetourt County Death Records 1867 Botetourt County Death Records 1868 Botetourt County Death Records |
Deeds
The following deeds were transcribed and provided by Edna
McPherson.
Isaac
Duckwiler to Samuel Wort
Jacob
Early to Danie Duckwilder John
Harris to Daniel Duckwilder This deed provided by Pam
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Funeral
Home Records
Rader Funeral Home Records have been copied & are
available at the Fincastle Library Genealogy Room.
11 Academy St
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Family Pages with
connection to Botetourt County Jerry & Joanne’s Southern Connections (Surnames: Rowland, Gilmore, Lackey, Paxton, Poage) (Surnames:
Hall) |
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In Memorandum In Memory of Geraldine Mangus Obenshain When
the Botetourt Genealogy Club was formed, we voted two members to be honorary
lifetime members for their interest in Genealogy. Geraldine was our oldest
member and probably had more genealogy research than the rest of us put
together. Geraldine was a very knowledgeable person about just about every
surname in colonial Botetourt. The
other lifetime member is Margarette Tynan. |
Letters
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Links
of Interest to Botetourt County, VA
Botetourt
County Historical Society
Membership
& Items for Sale Form Pg 1
Membership
& Items for Sale Form Pg 2
Hosted By Rena Worthen History of Botetourt County Facebook Group Hosted By Rena Worthen Library of Virginia Historical Newspapers New
River Notes
Great resource for SWVA Genealogy
USGenwebArchives
USGenwebArchives - Botetourt
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Marriages Click on Botetourt for marriage records submitted to this project |
Newspaper Items Botetourt Man lives to age 113 Roanoke
& Botetourt Misc. Items
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Pension
Applications
Botetourt County Revolutionary War Pension Applications Montgomery County Revolutionary War Pension Applications |
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Resources Where to Write for Vital Statistics
All Counties In
Virginia
In Botetourt County, Virginia
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Surveys |
Shortcuts
to Neighboring Counties
Alleghany Co Rockbridge Co (needs adopting) Craig Co. Bedford Co. Roanoke Co. (needs adopting)
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Tax Lists 1794
Botetourt County Personal Property Tax List
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Wills
& Estate Settlements
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