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TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA

African American Heritage

This is an entire section and is being UPDATED frequently. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS. I am finding it to be very rewarding and I am learning so much more than I knew before I started. Won't you please help with this project?
Please send in any information you have to me, Dodie Browning and I will find a way to post it.

PLEASE NOTE: While this information is thought to be accurate, nothing can replace your own research. As always, if you notice any errors, please let me know!


  • Some "Free" People of Color
  • Some Free People of Color on 1850 Tazewell County Census
  • Some Tazewell Slave Death Records
  • Some Tazewell Slave Holders In 1801
  • Some Slave Holders From Wills
  • Some Slave Holders 1850
  • Bowling/Boling Marriages
  • Some Bowling Birth Records
  • Steele and White (surname) Slave Holders From 1850 Census
  • Some Information on African American Steele Families
  • Some African American Steele Marriages
  • Some African American Witten Marriages
  • Witten Slave Birth Registrations
  • Peery Slave Birth Registrations
  • Higginbotham Slave Birth Registrations
  • Fatalities of the 1932 Boissevain Mine Explosion
  • Family Histories and Genealogy Section

  • Family of William Johnston & Cynthia (Holly) Warren
  • Wagon Road West
  • Wagon Road West- Revisited
  • More to come soon!


    Links to Information on
    The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863

    Featured Document in National ArchivesThe Emancipation Proclamation

    Transcription of The Emancipation Proclamation by John Hope Franklin,
    National Archives and Records Administration, 1994.


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