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Welcome to the home of the Hardy County WVGenWeb project. You will find queries, lists of published
resources, links to other genealogy sites and other items of
interest to Hardy County genealogy researchers. This page will be
updated and expanded as I find more to include. Please come back
often!
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Hardy County Cemetery Readings Recorded by Clifton and Lila Funkhouser
Persons of Color in the 1870 Federal Census of Hardy County
Johann Michael Ernst Hörner; His Birth Family, Marriage and Life Span
1800 Hardy County Personal Property Tax List
South Branch Manor Rent Rolls
Hardy County Genealogy
E-mail Discussion List
About Hardy County West Virginia
Published Resources and Lookup Volunteers
QueriesUpdated 2 February 2020
Hardy County SurnamesUpdated 2 February 2020
More Hardy County Resources
Hardy County Family AlbumAdd a page to the Hardy Family Album. The format? It is open to your creativity: send me -- a family story, memoir, letters, or family group sheets, descriptions of places in Hardy County, bits of County history or geography, photographs or illustrations -- old or new. As the pages fill we will learn more about the County our ancestors lived in.
Write to me with your page ideas: Margaret C. Lew
A sample of Hardy County Family Album articles:
Deaths in United Bretheran Church Records, Hardy Charge, 1879-1896
The Benjamin Bean and Rebecca Evans Family
The Hanson Veatch and Elizabeth Bean Family
Hanson Veatch Estate Settlement records
The Sniders – From Hardy County to Winchester Virginia, A Family History
George and Elizabeth Stump Family Bible
Dating Daniel Tevebaugh's Death and Will - using contemporary documents
North Mill Creek Church Records
The David & Lydia Knee House, near Wardensville
Some MacDonald Family records from Grant and Hampshire Counties
The Parents, Siblings and Birth of Johann Michael Ernst Hörner
(aka Michael Harness, Sr.)
Kidner Family, items from Hardy County Records
John Hopewell Family Bible Records
L. Brake et al vs. N. See et al.
Hardy Blues Muster Roll
Obituary of Isaac Rumer
Johann Michael Ernst Hoerner and his Harness Children
Alfred Slusher of Hardy County, Virginia
Michael Stump Sr. of Virginia 1709-1768
Michael Stump and The Phoenix, 1743
Descendants of John Groves
Colonial NotesLearn about colonial Hardy County and surrounding area as local historian Terry Gruber shares insight, advice and experience.
Suggested Readings on Life in Virginia During the Colonial Period
Hardy County MarriagesSome marriages performed by Valentine Powers for the years 1792 and 1799. Transcribed from courthouse records.
Hardy County Marriage ListA collection of marriages from Hardy County from 1792 through 1842.
Hardy County
CemeteriesOver 50 cemetery readings
Hardy County Cemetery Readings Recorded by Clifton and Lila Funkhouser
These readings are from the collection held by the Hardy County Public Library which has kindly allowed them to be shared here.
Hardy County Will RecordsPhotocopies and transcriptions of some Hardy County wills
Index of persons named in each will
New wills added January 2014
Hardy County Estate Appraisals and SalesNew Appraisal added January 2014
Names found on Lists of Wills and Appraisements for Hardy
CountyA list of the wills on record for Hardy County in the early years of its history. The county was formed in 1785 and the list extends through the first decade of the 19th Century.
Hardy County Land RecordsDeeds, Sales, Survey and other Records
South Branch Manor Rent Rolls
1782 & 1784 Tax Enumeration InformationLists locations, enumerators and some residents
1800 Hardy County Personal Property Tax List
Hardy County in 1800Names from tax lists, was your ancestor taxed?
Hardy
County Genealogy Archives
About the USGenWeb Project
About the WVGenWeb Project
GENDEX
- Gene Stark's WWW Gedcom Index
The Act Creating Hardy County Passed October 1785 --- 10th of the Commonwealth. The newly formed county was created as follows:Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that from and after the first day of February next, the county of Hampshire shall be divided into two distinct counties, by a line beginning at the north branch of Potowmack, opposite to the mouth of Savage river, and running thence in a direct course so as to strike the upper end of the plantation known by the name of Myres's mill, on New Creek; thence in a direct course to the highest part of the mountain known by the name of the High Nob; thence in a direct course to the gap of the short Arse Mountain,where the North river runs through the same; thence along the road leading by the upper end of Henry Fry's plantation on Cap Capon, and along the said road to the top of the North mountain to the dividing line between the counties of Shenandoah and Hampshire; and that all that part of the said county lying south of said line shall be called and known by the name of Hardy; and the residue of said county shall retain the name of Hampshire.
A court for the said county of Hardy, shall be held by the justices thereof the Friday after the 2nd Tuesday in every month, after such division shall take place.
The first court was held at the house of William Bullitt.
Part of Hardy County was added to Hampshire County on 4 December 1787. "... all that part of the County of Hardy lying North of a line to be run from the mouth of Stoney River to the High Knob, shall be and the same is hereby added to and made part of the County of Hampshire."
A part of Pendleton County was also formed from Hardy County in December 1787.
(12 Hening, Ch 35 pp. 86-88)The County Seat is Moorefield.
Note: See 1787 Petition to add a portion of Hardy County to Hampshire County. The list of petitioners is included.
The Handy Book for Genealogists lists the following records available for Hardy County: birth, marriage, death and burial records from 1853; probate and land records from 1786; civil court records from 1960 and divorce records. For records or events prior to the date of formation of Hardy County try its parent county Hampshire or their parent county Frederick County, Virginia.
West Virginia became a state in June 1863. Records that were of interest to the state government (tithables, military records, assessor's records, etc.) prior to 1863 may be on file in the county or at the Virginia State Library.
Similar records after West Virginia statehood will be found at Archives and History, the Cultural Center, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East, Charleston, West Virginia 25305-0300. Archives and History recently acquired the tax records for most West Virginia counties pre-1863.
We are collecting information about published records, county histories and other references about Hardy County families and adding it to the Publications Information Page for you.
Please write to me if you can add to this list. Margaret C. Lew
To the Hardy County Resources
Lookup Page
Publications Information Page
Please send me your Hardy County VA/WV query. Use either the New Query Form, or send the query to me in e-mail.
To make your query work harder for you, remember the old rules of news reporting, and include as many of the following things as possible:
I hope that we can help you to fill in the blanks in your family stories.
Read: QUERIES 2020-2022
and
Hardy County Surname Page to find
connections to your lines.
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Margaret Lew
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