Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia, from 1800 to 1922

This history is the digital edition of a two-volume set of books with a total of 1034 pages by John Newton Harman, Sr., originally published in 1922 and 1925. It consists of two text files (3.6 Mb) in doc format and 26 high-resolution image files (11.4 Mb) in gif and jpg format, digitized in 2008 and issued on CD-Rom. The first volume, 444 pages, chronicles the history of the county to 1853. The second volume, 590 pages, continues the history through 1922. The work consists mainly of extracts from the official records of the County and its various towns and villages. In addition, the first volume includes Judge Lyman Chalkley's essay, "Before the Gates of the Wilderness Road," originally published in the Virginia Historical Magazine (20 pages), and George W. L. Bickley's "History of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell County, Virginia" (110 pages), originally published in 1852. "Family Genealogies" and biographical sketches fill nearly 260 pages. The families featured there include BANDY, BARNES (with Moss, Baldwin, and Copenhaver), BOWEN, CHAPMAN, COULLING, CROCKETT, DESKINS (with Maxwell, Witten, and Fields), GILLESPIE (with Williams, Harrison, and Johnston), GOSE (with Leece and May), GRAYBEAL and GREEAR, GREEVER, HANKINS, HARMAN, HIGGINBOTHAM, HOPKINS, LAIRD, LINKOUS, LITZ, LOCKHART, MAXWELL, MARTIN, MAYS, MOORE (with St. Clair), MUSTARD, McGUIRE, PEERY, STRAS, SPARKS, WARD, WITTEN (with George), WOLFORD, YOST, and YOUNG. There biographical sketches are of Colonel Andrew Jackson May; Samuel Cecil Graham; Joseph and Abel Hankins; Henry Sr., Elias, Daniel, and Mathais Harman; Dr. E. A. Holmes, Joseph Stras, Dr. Caleb Anderson Thompson, and Capt. A. J. Tynes.