Dickenson County, Virginia Genealogy

United States   Virginia    Dickenson County

Southwest Virginia county.

County Courthouse
Dickenson County Courthouse Box 190 Main Street Clintwood, VA 24228-0190 Phone: 540-926-1616

County Health Department has birth, death, and burial records, Clerk Circuit court has marriage, divorce, court and land records from 1880 and military discharge records

Parent County
1880--Dickenson County was created 3 March 1880 from Buchanan, Russell and Wise Counties. County seat: Clintwood

African American
Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-18721

Cemeteries

 * Tombstone Transcription Project Dickenson County - cemetery transcriptions - USGenWeb

Census
1890 Union Veterans


 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website. [Includes residents of this county.]

1900


 * Vanover, Gregory Lynn, Joan Short Vanover, and Barbara Kendrick Vanover. Dickenson County, Virginia, 1900 Federal Census. Pound, Virginia: G.L. Vanover, 1984. Available at.

Baptist

 * Sutherland, Elihu Jasper. Sand Lick Primitive Baptist Church, the First Hundred Years, 1837-1937: A History of the Oldest Religious Organization in Dickenson County, Virginia. 1937; reprint, [Clintwood, Virginia?]: Mullins Printing, 1985. Available at.

Genealogy
More than a dozen genealogies have been published about Dickenson County families. For a list, see Dickenson County, Virginia Genealogy.

Local Histories

 * Giles, Albert William. The Geology and Coal Resources of Dickenson County, Virginia. University of Virginia, 1921. Digital version at Google Books (full-view).
 * Schwab, W.G. The Forests of Dickenson County, Virginia. Charlottesville, Va., 1917. Digital version at Google Books (full-view).
 * Sutherland, Elihu Jasper. Meet Virginia's Baby: A Brief Pictorial History of Dickenson County, Virginia, from Its Formation in 1880 to 1955, with Stress on Pioneer Background. Clintwood, Va.: E.J. Sutherland, 1955. 1975 reprint available at.
 * Sutherland, Elihu Jasper and Hetty Swindall Sutherland. Pioneer Recollections of Southwest Virginia. Clintwood, Va.: H.S. Sutherland, G.L. Vanover, and J.S. Vanover, 1984. Available at.

Civil War

 * - 2nd Regiment, Virginia State Line (Cavalry) (Confederate). Company B.
 * - 5th Regiment, Virginia State Line (Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry) (Confederate). Companies C and D.

Records and histories are available, including:


 * Virginia, Civil War
 * Virginia, Civil War
 * Gobble, Lillian and Rhonda Robertson. Between Brothers: Civil War Soldiers of Wise and Dickenson County [Virginia]. [Big Stone Gap, Virginia: L. Gobble and R. Robertson, 200-?]..

Naturalization

 * Virginia

Private Papers
Dickenson County, Virginia, Family Bible Records, 1934-1935. Clintwood, Virginia: Mullins Printing, 1999. Available at.

Research Guides

 * "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Dickenson County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1964):124-126. Available at ; digital version at New England Ancestors($).

Vital Records

 * Sutherland, Elihu Jasper. E. J. Sutherland Collection, Dickenson County, Virginia, 1650-1965. MSS., available at . [Includes Dickenson County Vital Statistics, 1830-1938.]

Marriage

 * 1740-1850 - Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (Ancestry) ($).

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Websites

 * Dickenson Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.
 * RootsWeb Mailing List: SW_VA-L (Topic: Southwest Virginia)
 * Cyndi's List
 * Cyndi's List