Cabell County, West Virginia Genealogy

United States  West Virginia   Cabell County

County Courthouse
CABELL County 8th St and 4th Avenue Huntington, WV 25701 304-526-8625


 * Count Clerk has birth and death from 1853
 * Marriage Records from 1809
 * Land Record from 1808 and Probate Records from 1809
 * Clerk Circuit Court records from 1809

Parent County
1809--Cabell County was created 2 January 1809 from Kanawha County. County seat: Huntington, as of 1887. Previous seats include Guyandotte and Barboursville.

Boundary Changes

 * Wayne County was carved from Cabell in 1842, while still part of Virginia.


 * Boone County was created in 1847 from parts of Cabell, Kanawha and Logan.


 * In 1867, parts of Cabell, Boone, Kanawha and Putnam were used to create Lincoln County, West Virginia.


 * See an interactive map of Cabell County boundary changes.

Populated Places
The largest city is the county seat, Huntington (originally Cabell City). Other communities include Barboursville, Guyandotte, Ona, Salt Rock and Milton.

Neighboring Counties

 * Gallia County, Ohio
 * Lawrence County, Ohio
 * Lincoln
 * Mason
 * Putnam
 * Wayne

Cemeteries

 * The Heck Funeral Home, located in Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia, has served many individuals in Cabell County and surrounding counties. Thousands of alphabetically arranged abstracts of records are available online and may include age, birth, death, and burial dates and locations. Some records also include parents' names.

The Cabell County WVGenWeb site includes Cabell County cemeteries

Census
1840


 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Cabell County West Virginia 1840 Census Alphabetically Arranged. 1995. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website.

1850


 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Cabell County West Virginia 1850 Census Annotated. 1998. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website.

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Huntington

Local Histories
A very rare and valuable resource, little known to those not from this area, are the papers of Fred Lambert, housed at the Special Collections of Morrow Library, Marshall University in Huntington. Lambert wrote down oral family histories of hundreds of local families and the collection includes several boxes of his notebooks. Some, but not all, are indexed.

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, Braxton County on page 134.]

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

Naturalization
West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991

Newspapers
Huntington's daily newspapers included the Herald Advertiser (historical) and Herald-Dispatch

Probate
Cabell County, West Virginia Will Books 1820-1968

West Virginia Will Books

Taxation
How can West Virginia tax lists help me?


 * [1810] Schreiner-Yates, Netti. A Supplement to the 1810 Census of Virginia: Tax Lists of the Counties for which the Census is Missing. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1971. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1810 personal property tax list. Cabell County is included because the 1810 Census for that county has been destroyed.]
 * [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. Cabell County is included in Vol. 6.]

Vital Records

 * Cabell County Clerk has birth and death records from 1853 marriage records from 1809 (see West Virginia Archives and History)

Societies
KYOVA Genealogical and Historical Society Box 1254 Huntington, WV 25714-1254 Library located at the second floor of the Second Presbyterian Church Building, 901 Jefferson Ave, Huntington, West Virginia

Cabell - Wayne County Historical Society P O Box 9412 Huntinton, WV 25704

Libraries
Cabell County Public Library 455 9th Street Plaza Huntington, WV, 25701

Marshall Library Stacks Marshall University 3rd Avenue Huntington, WV 25755 1-304-696-3121

Family History Centers
The closest family history center is the Huntingon Family History Center


 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Websites

 * CYNDI'S List West Virginia
 * Cabell County Public Library
 * Cabell County WV GenWeb
 * KYOVA Genealogical and Historical Society
 * Cabell County, West Virginia Microfilms at the Library of Virginia
 * Cabell County, West Virginia Microfilms at the Library of Virginia


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