African-American Resources for Wythe County, Virginia

Date: 1790 [unknown]
Location: Wythe, Virginia, United States
Surnames/tags: Black_Heritage Virginia

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Contents 1 Resources for Wythe County, Virginia 2 Genealogy Resources 2.1 Confederate Payrolls 2.2 Freedmen's Bureau Records 2.3 Cohabitaton Records 3 Cemeteries 4 Plantations 5 Slave Owners 6 History

Resources for Wythe County, Virginia

Wythe County, Virginia, was formed in 1790 from a portion of Montgomery County, Virginia. In 1860, more than seventeen percent of Wythe County's population was enslaved (2,162 people). The county seat is Wytheville.

Genealogy Resources

Confederate Payrolls

• Confederate Payroll 327, Wythe County, Virginia
• Confederate Payroll 673 1/2, Wythe County, Virginia
• Confederate Payroll 969, Wythe County, Virginia
• Confederate Payroll 1410, Wythe County, Virginia

Freedmen's Bureau Records

• 1865 Census Returns of the Colored Population of Wythe County, VA. FamilySearch

Cohabitaton Records

• Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866. Library of Virginia, navigate to page 2.

Cemeteries

See: Wythe County African American Cemeteries for cemeteries with categories on WikiTree.

• Blacklick Baptist Church Cemetery - 52 memorials
  • Blacklick Category
• Chaney Branch Cemetery - 36 memorials, also known as Gose Cemetery - 12 memorials (two cemeteries may need to be merged)
  • Chaney Branch Category
• Fisherman Cemetery - 76 memorials
  • Fisherman Category
• Jim Shucks Cemetery - 68 memorials
  • Shucks Category
• Oakwood Memorial Gardens - 464 memorials
  • Oakwood Category
• Pauper Cemetery - 3 memorials -- COMPLETE!
  • Pauper Category
• Red Bluff AME Church Cemetery - 138 memorials
  • Red Bluff Category

Plantations

• Locust Hill and Kentlands, plantations of Joseph Kent, with 54 enslaved people in his estate inventory in 1843 (Kentlands was in neighboring Montgomery County; Locust Hill was his wife's by right and given to his daughters as ratified in his will, along with some enslaved people). Additional info here: http://rockwoodfamily.com/kent/

For Joseph Kent estate inventory, see Image 720 of this source: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2028883:62347?ssrc=pt&tid=116406648&pid=422183285684

Slave Owners

• Wythe County Slave Owners on WikiTree
• Wythe County, Virginia Slave Owners in 1850
• Wythe County, Virginia, Slave Owners in 1860

History

• "Wytheville, VA Historic Walking Tour" See pp 56-59 for the African-American Loop, and Oakwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery on p 61.