Pleasants County, West Virginia Genealogy

United States   West Virginia    Pleasants County

County Courthouse


Pleasants County 301 Court Lane #101 Saint Mary's, WV 26170 304-684-3542


 * County Clerk has birth, marriage, death, and probate from 1853
 * Land records from 1851
 * Circuit Court Clerk has divorce and court records
 * Pleasants County, West Virginia Home Page
 * Pleasants Area Chamber of Commerce

Parent County
1851--Pleasants County was created 29 March 1851 from Wood, Tyler and Ritchie Counties. County seat: St. Marys

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

Neighboring Counties

 * Ritchie
 * Tyler
 * Washington County, Ohio
 * Wood

Research Guides

 * "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Pleasants County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1976):209-210. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors ($).

Cemeteries
The Pleasants County website of West Virginia GenWeb offers a listing of county cemeteries, with beautiful photographs of the cemeteries, and transcriptions of the burials found therein.

Find A Grave Pleasants County

Tombstone Transcription Project Pleasants County

Interment.net Cemetery Records On Line Pleasants County, WV

Ingram Funeral Home

Topographic May Cemetery Pleasants

Cemeteries near West Union, West Virginia

Pleasants County USGENWEB Obituaries

Census


Pleasants County West Virginia Census records

Local Histories
Pemberton's History of Pleasants County, West Virginia 1929

Maps
Map of 1850 Virginia and West Virginia

Pleasants County, West Virginia Map

Pleasants County Map

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

5th West Virginia Cavalry

Pleasants County, West virginia World War II Casualties Army and Air Force

Naturalization
West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991

Probate
Pleasants County, West Virginia Will Books 1851 - 1971

West Virginia Will Books

Vital Records
Pleasants County WV Gen Web: The Pleasants County West Virginia website for US GenWeb is host to may excellent transcriptions of county records, including of Pleasants Co Birth Records from 1853-1891 from the LDS Family History Film #0163911, with only a couple of years missing

There are also marriage recordsavailable, from 1853 to 1931, transcribed from both LDS film #0163911 and from courthouse record.

Complying with the law enacted in 1853, Pleasants County deathswere recorded and transcriptions are available at this site also.

The West Virginia State Archivesalso has a searchable database of the actual death certificate imagesavailable for deaths occuring during the years 1917-1919, and 1921-1957 for Pleasants County.

Family History Centers
Pleasants County Public Library


 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Pleasants County WV GenWeb
 * Pleasants County, West Virginia Wikipedia
 * Pleasants County, West Virginia Facebook
 * Pleasants County West Virginia Encyclopedia
 * Pleasants County, West Virginia Commons
 * Pleasants County, West Virginia enotes
 * Cyndis List
 * Clark FamilyOwens Genealogy
 * Combs Families of Pleasants County, WV
 * Skinner Family
 * Skinner Family


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