Cabell County, West Virginia Genealogy

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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 WV Gen site, listed below, has clickable links to cemeteries in Cabell County. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvcccfhr/cemeteries/index.htm

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.

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.]

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

Taxation
How can 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.]

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

Family History Centers

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

Websites

 * Cabell County Public Library
 * Cabell County WV GenWeb
 * KYOVA Genealogical and Historical Society
 * KYOVA Genealogical and Historical Society