Montgomery County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

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Montgomery County, Virginia Genealogy General Resources
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Montgomery, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 100,000 entries.

Montgomery County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 175 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Montgomery County families include:


 * Allison, Elizabeth Kelly. Early Southwest Virginia Families: Families of Kelly, Smyth, Buchanan, Clark and Related Families of Edmonson, Keys, Beattie, Ryburn, McDonald. Auburn, Ala., 1960.
 * Heavener, Ulysses S.A. German New River Settlement: Virginia. 1929; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976..
 * Kegley, Mary B. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters. 5 vols. 1990-1998..

Montgomery County, Virginia Genealogy Books and Articles


It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]


 * [Adams] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Austin] Curtis, Janet Austin. "Southside Virginia Austins," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1961):147-154. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Beane] Simbach, Louise Alice Wheelock and Mildred Turner Tirk. Beane Genealogy. San Diego, Calif.: M.T. Tirk, 1900s. Digital version at - free;.
 * [Bell] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Braun] West, Klaus and Joseph H. Meyerhoeffer. Shenandoah Valley Family Data, 1799-1813, From the Memorandum Book of Pastor Johannes Braun. Edinburg, Va.: Shenandoah History Publishers, 1978..
 * [Brown] Brown, Freddy Joe. Dance Steps: Six Generation History &amp; Genealogy of Dance Brown (1776-1860). Scottsville, Ky.: F.J. Brown, c1996..
 * [Brownlee] "Virginia Valley Brownlees 1718-1985," Family File, Augusta County Historical Society.
 * [Buchanan] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Burk] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Irish Burks of Colonial Virginia and New River. Blacksburg, Va.: Walpa Publishing, 1992..
 * [Burnett] Hockett, Thomas Jack. Family of Reuben Helton &amp; Nancy Burnett: Family of Karen Snead &amp; Vanranselrei Aistrop. St. Davids, Pa.: T.J. Hockett, 1992..
 * [Chaudoin] Allen, Cameron. "Francis (Francois) Chaudoin (c.1717/18-c.1799/1800) of Manakin Town and of Buckingham Co., Va.," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1996):83-94; Vol. 40, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1996):179-190; Vol. 40, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1996):261-274; Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997):18-33; Vol. 41, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1997):97-113. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Cloyd] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Coon] Coon, Eunice. "Benjamin Coon Family," Tree Builders, Christian County Genealogical Society, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar. 2001):1-3. Digital version at.
 * [Cox] Cox, Elza B. Cox--Phillips Family Newsletter: Where Ends Meet. Lexington, N.C.: Phillips Printing, c1981-2002..
 * [Cowan] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Crockett] Trimble, David B. Crockett and Graham of Southwest Virginia. Austin, Texas: D.B. Trimble, c1992..
 * [Davis] Davis, Eleanor M. Davis: A Quaker Family. Charles Davies, the Immigrant, to Pennsylvania about 1725, from There to North Carolina, His Wife, Hannah Matson, and Their Descendants. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, Inc., 1985..
 * [Dean] Shields, Carolyn Ann Dean and Charles Louis Shields. Kanawha County Cousins: A History of the History of the Families of Dean--Perry--Painter--Ritz: Related and Allied Families Include: Lane, McDermott, Burgess, Morris, Holenson, Vanderzee, Kller, Copen, Spencer, Glassburn, White, Sulovka, Mulesa, Slack, Elswick, Garten. Wyandotte, Okla.: Gregath, 1998..
 * [Downing] Williams, Frank L. The Downing Family from Montgomery and Bedford Counties, Virginia, to Lincoln County, Missouri, by Way of Lincoln County, Kentucky. MSS., Urbana Free Library Archives, Illinois..
 * [Duncan] Dobson, Mary Ann Duncan. Duncan Research Files of Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson. MSS. 1975-1999. Includes Montgomery County Duncans.
 * [Finley] Finley, Carmen J. John and Mary Finley of Montgomery and Wythe County, Virginia. Santa Rosa, Calif.: C. Finley, 1990..
 * [Finley] Finley, Carmen J. "John and Mary Finley of Montgomery (Wythe) County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1990):243-255; Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1991):18-33; Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1991):122-135; Vol. 35, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1991):173-185; Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1991):251-262. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Finley] Finley, Carmen J. "John Finley of Montgomery/Wythe County, Virginia: Additional Children Identified," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1995):3-222. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Finley] Finley, Carmen J. "The John Finleys of Augusta County, Virginia: Correcting the Record," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2002):3-13; Vol. 46, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2002):98-113; Vol. 46, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2002):171-178; Vol. 46, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2002):268-281. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Francisco] Fletcher, Virginia Billingsley and Paul E. Fletcher. "Time and Tide": A Francisco Family History: The Ancestors and Descendants of Christopher Francisco and Halana Bowen of Southwest Virginia and Claiborne County, Tennessee. Chelsea, Mich.: BookCrafters, c1989..
 * [Graham] Trimble, David B. Crockett and Graham of Southwest Virginia. Austin, Texas: D.B. Trimble, c1992..
 * [Harless] Bjorkman, Gwen Boyer. The Descendants of Peter Simmons, Brunswick County, Virginia: With Allied Lines of Hiatt, Mills, Patton, James, Harless, and McGriff. Bellevue, Wash.: unknown, 1973. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Harman] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Hawley] Hawley, Raymond G. Hawley Families in America: Descendants of Peter Hawley of Montgomery County, Virginia. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1997..
 * [Hawley] Hawley, Raymond G. Hawley Families in America: Descendants of Peter Hawley of Montgomery County, Virginia: Supplement. n.p.: Society of the Hawley Family, 2000. ; digital version at.
 * [Heavener] Bodell, Dorothy H. The Heavener Family of Montgomery County, Virginia, 1797-1982. Blacksburg, Va.: D.H. Bodell, 1983..
 * [Hedge] Hall, Beuford. The William Hedge Family of Virginia and Indiana. Clermont, Ind.: Beuford Hall, 2007. Digital version at ;.
 * [Helton] Hockett, Thomas Jack. Family of Reuben Helton &amp; Nancy Burnett: Family of Karen Snead &amp; Vanranselrei Aistrop. St. Davids, Pa.: T.J. Hockett, 1992..
 * [Howe] Howe, Daniel Dunbar. Listen to the Mockingbird: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Virginia Family. San Antonio, Texas, 1961.
 * [Howell] Roseberry, Greg E. The Elbert Howell -- Bertha Burnop Family of Floyd, Smyth, and Montgomery Counties, Virginia Including the Burnop, Duncan, Fischbach, Hanks, Heimbach, Holtzclaw, Howell, Hylton, Morricle, Otterbach, Pratt, Stuell, Vaughan, and Weddle Families. Lincoln, Nebraska: Writer Club Press, 2002..
 * [James] Trimble, David B. Montgomery and James of Southwest Virginia
 * [Keith] King, Larry. Blue Ridge Mountain Kinfolks: A Record of Ancestors, Descendants and Relatives of the Author and Wife, Including Fisher - Gilbert - Hall - Hartley - Hill - King - Kirby - Lawson Families. Manchester, Tenn.: King, 1976..
 * [Keith] King, Larry. Keith Kinfolks: Descendants of James Keith, Sr., from 1720 to 1979. Hendersonville, Tenn.: King, 1979..
 * [Kent] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Krieger] King, Larry. Blue Ridge Mountain Kinfolks: A Record of Ancestors, Descendants and Relatives of the Author and Wife, Including Fisher - Gilbert - Hall - Hartley - Hill - King - Kirby - Lawson Families. Manchester, Tenn.: King, 1976..
 * [Ledgerwood] Riggins, Stephen and Eithel Riggins. Country Lilacs. Part One. Eithel Riggins' Account of the Nathaniel Ledgerwood Family in Southern Indiana, 1830-1930. Toronto, Can.: S. Riggins, 1983..
 * [Lester] Tise, Marguerite. The Lester Family of Floyd County and Montgomery County, Virginia. Floyd, Va.: M. Tise, 1996..
 * [Lester] Tise, Marguerite. The Lester Family of Floyd County and Montgomery County, Virginia. Floyd, Va.: M. Tise, 1997..
 * [LeSueur] Allen, Cameron. "David LeSueur (1703/04-1771/72) of Manakin Town, Virginia: An Outline of the First Three Generations of His Descendants, As Constructed from the Tax Records of the 'Burned' County of Buckingham," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1999):3-22; Vol. 43, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1999):110-125; Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1999):178-189; Vol. 43, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1999):256-269. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors($).
 * [Light] Vaughn, Onie W. "Light Family Sketch," The Southwest Virginian, Vol. 3, No. 13 (Feb. 1980):15-17..
 * [Linkous] Linkous, Clovis E. The Linkous Family History, Henry Linkous (1742-1822): 5000 Descendants in 10 Generations. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1982..
 * [Locke] Tiller, Linda Locke, Ardith H. Johnson, Jeanne R. Stanis, and Stella Locke. "Locke Families of Southwest Virginia," The Southwest Virginian, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1978):25-33..
 * [Love] Love, Robert A. General Thomas Love of Western North Carolina and Western Tennessee, and His Brothers Robert and James. 2nd ed. St. Petersburg, Fla.: R.A. Love, 1950s..
 * [Lynch] Roberson, Rhonda S. "Lynch," The Southwest Virginian, Vol. 3, No. 14 (Apr. 1980):29..
 * [MacDonald] Roberson, Rhonda S. "MacDonald Family Sketch," The Southwest Virginian, Vol. 3, No. 16 (August 1980):35-36..
 * [McCoy] Wheeler, Phillip Glenn. My McCoy Family &amp; Parr Family Roots. 1980?.
 * [McGriff] Bjorkman, Gwen Boyer. The Descendants of Peter Simmons, Brunswick County, Virginia: With Allied Lines of Hiatt, Mills, Patton, James, Harless, and McGriff. Bellevue, Wash.: unknown, 1973. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [McKinney] Eckert, Mary. McKinney Family History. MSS. Copied in 2005:.
 * [McMahan] Cantrell, Dorothy McMahan. "McMahan," Bulletin of the Watauga Association of Genealogists, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1991):144-145.
 * [Marshall] Langley, Roberta M. and Walter F. Langley. An Echo of Sweet Voices: A Marshall Family History. St. Paul, Va.: G. Marshall, c1972..
 * [Newberry] Counts, Belva Marshall. Unto the Hills...Some Hillmans and Others. Radford, Va.: Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1979..
 * [Newell] Roberson, Rhonda S. "Newell Family Sketch," The Southwest Virginian, Vol. 2, No. 12 (Dec. 1979):11-12..
 * [Ogle] Reagan, Donald B. Smoky Mountain Clans. 3 vols. Knoxville, Tenn.: D.B. Reagan, 1978-1983. . [The Ogle family is discussed in Vol. 1.]
 * [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. Page Family Records in Virginia Counties. 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 1982-2006. [Montgomery County appears in Vol. 2 Part 3]
 * [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850). 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. [Montgomery County appears in Vol. 2]
 * [Patterson] Haulman, Donald J. The Family of James Patterson, 1758-1838 Revolutionary War Veteran: Montgomery County, Virginia to Moultrie County, Illinois and Beyond: What is Known of His Life and His Descendants. Sanger, Calif.: D.J. Haulman, 1995. ; digital version at.
 * [Peden] Peden, Henry C. The Pedens of Southwest Virginia and Southcentral Kentucky: Descendants of John Peden (1734-1815) and Mary Smith (1734-1806). Baltimore, Md.: Jet Printing Service, 1978..
 * [Pennington] Jones, Marvin T. Some Descendants of Ephraim Pennington of Rowan Co., NC, Including Those of Pennington's Point, McDonough County, Illinois. Wyndmere, N.D.: privately published, 1994.
 * [Peterman] Tise, Marguerite. The Peterman Family of Floyd and Montgomery Counties Virginia. Floyd, Va.: M. Tise, 1988..
 * [Phillips] Cox, Elza B. Cox--Phillips Family Newsletter: Where Ends Meet. Lexington, N.C.: Phillips Printing, c1981-2002..
 * [Pratt] Pratt, Warren C. "Finding the Father of Henry Pratt of Southeastern Kentucky," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 2 (June 2012):85-103. Digital version at NGS website ($);.
 * [Reynolds] Moffett, Linden Byron. Genealogy of the Descendants of William Jr. and Elizabeth Tuggle Reynolds of Montgomery County, Virginia. Muncie, Ind.: n.p., 1929..
 * [Roach] Edgerly, Dorthea Roach and Raymond Henry Edgerly. James Roach of Greene County, Indiana. Oceanside, Calif.: D.R. Edgerly, c2000..
 * [Roseberry] Roseberry, Greg E. The Charles E. Roseberry -- Betty Jean Keister Family of Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, Virginia Including the Angstadt, Beck, Burk, Carper, Daux, Filenger, Foster, Glasgow, Godbey, Gunn, Keister, King, Long, Patterson, Patton, Rankin, Roseberry, Shell, Shufflebarger, Songer, Sutton, Whitt and Wysor Families. Lincoln, Nebraska: Writers Club Press, 2002..
 * [Sage] Ball, Bonnie and Sybil Dawson Scofield eds. The March of the Sages.
 * [Sage] Ball, Bonnie. Red Trails and White. 1955.
 * [Sassin] Allen, Cameron. "Francois Sasin/Sassin of Manakin Town: The First Six Generations of the Sassin/Sasseen Family in America," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1993):3-17; Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1993):99-116; Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1993):193-205; Vol. 37, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1993):259-271. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Shelor] Padgett, Wilma Lawson. Early Virginia Settlers: Blackard, DeHart, Hubbard, Hurst, Lawson, Shelor, Southern, Thompson, Turner. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, c2001..
 * [Shockley] Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. "Worrell-Shockley-Bobbitt Connections in Carroll (Montgomery) County, Virginia," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb. 2002):19-25. Digital version at Ancestry ($);.
 * [Simpson] Johnson, Katherine Baker. The Family of John Simpson of Montgomery and Halifax Cos., Virginia. Typescript, 1940..
 * [Slusher] King, Hatcher and Alta King. Turman and Slusher Genealogy, 1757-1974 Christopher Slusher Sr., Wife, Eva, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Fredrick, Washington Counties, Maryland, Montgomery, Floyd Counties, Virginia. MSS., microfilmed 1974-1975..
 * [Smith] Smith, David H. Footprints Behind Me History and Genealogy Track: A Smith Family of Montgomery County, Virginia. Richmond, Va.: D.H. Smith, 2003. ; digital version at.
 * [Spencer] Kelly, Margaret J. Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors: An Examination of Genealogical Records Concerning Joseph Spencer of Lee County, Virginia. Arvada, Colo.: M.J. Spencer, c2004..
 * [Thompson] Padgett, Wilma Lawson. Early Virginia Settlers: Blackard, DeHart, Hubbard, Hurst, Lawson, Shelor, Southern, Thompson, Turner. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, c2001..
 * [Tollett] John Tollett, Sr. of Montgomery Co., Virginia and Descendants. MSS., microfilmed 1991..
 * [Trigg] Johnson, Patricia Givens. Kentland at Whitehorne: Virginia Tech's Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It, Harmans, Buchanans, Triggs, Cloyds, Kents, Cowans, Bells, Adams. Dublin, Va.: Pulaski Printing Co., c1995..
 * [Waggoner] Hatcher, Thomas C. and Nancy Nash. The Adam Waggoner Family of Tazewell and Montgomery Counties, Virginia 1750-1996. North Tazewell, Va.: N. Nash, 1996. Digital version at - free;.
 * [Worrell] Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. "Worrell-Shockley-Bobbitt Connections in Carroll (Montgomery) County, Virginia," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb. 2002):19-25. Digital version at Ancestry ($);.
 * [Wynne] Clepper, Barbara Gonce. Gonce and Wynne Genealogy. 1986.
 * [Wysor] Steinke, Mark Edward. The Early Wysor Family: With Variant Spellings Weiser and Wiser, and Associated Families of Trinkle, Anderson, Cecil, Shufflebarger and Peck. Cincinnati, Ohio: M.E. Steinke, c1998. Digital version at - free;.