Harrison County, West Virginia Genealogy

United States  West Virginia   Harrison County

County Courthouse
Harrison County Courthouse 301 W Main Street Clarksburg, WV 26301-2909 Phone: 304-624-8611

County Clerk has birth and death records from 1853 Marriage Records from 1784

Parent County
1784--Harrison County was created 3 May 1784 from Monongalia County. County seat: Clarksburg

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Harrison County boundary changes.

Neighboring Counties

 * Barbour
 * Doddridge
 * Lewis
 * Marion
 * Taylor
 * Upshur
 * Wetzel

Cemeteries
Oddfellows Cemetery

Census
1785 Enumeration


 * Harrison County Heads of Families - 1785 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 90.

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Baptist
Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):


 * 1) Simpson's Creek (1775)
 * 2) Buchannon (1786)
 * 3) Good Hope (1806)
 * 4) Olive Branch (1803)
 * 5) Salem (1801)
 * 6) Union (1802)
 * 7) West Fork

Harrison County fell within the bounds of the Union Association.

LDS
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Clarksburg

Genealogy

 * [Criss] Johnston, Aaron Montgomery. Ancestors and Descendants of James and Althea (Loose) Johnston and Allied Families: Bennett, Criss, Gay, Loose, Maitland, Montgomery, Palm and Round. Knoxville, Tenn., 1983..
 * [Cunningham] Newman, Betty Cunningham. Adam and 500 More Cunninghams of the Valley of Virginia, c.1734-c.1800. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000..
 * [Deakins] Ganley, Gladys Dickens. "Some Speculations on a Dickens/Washington Connection," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May 1989):75-81. Digital version at Ancestry ($);.
 * [Dennison] Dennison, Edmund and Karl C. Priest. Baptized on the 4th of July: The Elder Edmund Dennison Story. South Charleston, W. Va.: K.C. Priest, 1995..
 * [Hacker] “A Noted Mason Dead: The Demise of William Hacker at a Ripe Old Age,” [Newspaper obituary] (Shelbyville, Ohio), 29 July 1891, reprinted in Hacker’s Creek Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Fall 1987):31-32 - free digital version at Hacker's Creek website.
 * [Mills] Hackett, John Davis and Kathryn Dickerson Shannon. "Mills Families of Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1991):215-228; Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1991):284-296; Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1992):34-48; Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1992):109-119. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Prunty] Wassenaar, Ardyth. Memoirs and Geneology of the Prunty Family. Seattle, Wash.: A. Wassenaar, 1984?.
 * [Shore] Dennis, Barbara. The Shore Family: Michael Shore and His Descendants. 1971; reprint, Spokane, Wash.: M.B. Shore, 1992..
 * [Swisher] Swisher, Robert Edward. The Swisher Family of Harrison and Lewis Counties, West Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1974..

Maps
Map of 1850 Virginia and West Virginia

Revolutionary War

 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. 1967 reprint: 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Western District, Harrison County on page 134.]
 * Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]

War of 1812
Harrison County men served in the 11th and 119th Regiments.

Civil War
Union


 * - 1st Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry

Confederate


 * - 3rd Regiment, Virginia State Line (Cavalry and Infantry) (Confederate). Company C.
 * - 20th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Companies E and F.
 * - 31st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company C (Harrison Rifles) presumably was recruited in Harrison County.

Records and histories are available, including:


 * West Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865

Naturalization
West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991

Occupations

 * Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. . [Includes a section on Clarksburg silversmiths.]

Probate
Harrison County, West Virginia Will Books 1822 - 1970

West Virginia Will Books

Tax List
How can West Virginia tax list help me?


 * [1754-1800] Harrison County, [West] Virginia Tithable Lands: 1754-1800. Extracts in the West Virginia Collection at the West Virginia University Library, Morgantown, West Virginia; also available on microfilm at.
 * [1784-1824] Harrison County, [West] Virginia Tithable List, 1784-1824. Original records, Harrison County Courthouse; also available on microfilm at.
 * [1787] Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 &amp; 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &amp; Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle &amp; Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. Available at . [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Harrison County is included in Vol. 1.]
 * [1789] Indexed images of the 1789 Personal Property Tax List of Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia) is indexed online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * [1801] Images of the 1801 Personal Property Tax List of Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia) are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Harrison County is included in Vol. 6.]

Vital Records
. Includes marriages 1784-1970 - free.

Societies and Libraries
Hackers Creek Pioneers Descendants Inc c/c Central West Virginia Genealogy &amp; Historical Library P O Box 56 Horner, West Virginia 26372-0056

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Clarksburg West Virginia Family History Center

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Cyndi's List for West Virginia
 * Harrison County, West Virginia Microfilms at the Library of Virginia
 * Harrison County, West Virginia Microfilms at the Library of Virginia

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