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A Partial Bibliography - Cont'd.
Morton, Oren F. A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Staunton, The McClure Co.,
1920. (Note: Any of Morton's histories are good.)
Robinson, Morgan Poitiaux. Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Vol. 9, Virginia
Counties: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation. Richmond, Va., Davis Bottom,
1916. (Note: this information is incorporated in The Hornbook of Virginia.)
Sarles, Frank B., Jr., and Shedd, Charles E. Colonials and Patriots. Historic Places
Commemorating our Forebears 1700-1783. Vol. VII, National Survey of Historic
Sites and Buildings. U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
Washington, 1964.
Stoner, Robert Douthat. A Seed-Bed of the Republic. A Study of the Pioneers in the
Upper (Southern) Valley of Virginia. Roanoke, Roanoke Historical Society,1962.
U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of the Census. A Century of Popula-
tion Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth 1790-1900.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1909.
U. S. Department of the Interior. Geological Survey. Bulletin 817, Boundaries, Areas, 6
Geographic Centers, and Altitudes of the United States and the Several States,
by Edward 1. Douglas. 2d edition. Washington, Government Printing Office,1932.
Washington, George. The Journal of Major George Washington...Facsimile edition,
printed for Colonial Williamsburg by Henry Holt, New York, 1959.
Wharton, Walter. Walter Wharton's Land Survey Register 1675-1679. West side Delaware
River.fromflewcastle County, Delaware, into Buck's County, Pennsylvania ...
Edited by Albrt Cook Myars. Wilmington, Historical Society of Delaware,1955.
Works Progress Administration. Historical Records Survey. Inventory of the County
Archives of ----(A Series) (Note: Obtain the inventory of the particular county,
in the particular state in which you are interested. THIS IS A MUST.)
NOTE: This is a mere sampling of the reading that should be done to learn par-
ticulars of the subject of the Colonial boundary disputes. I have relied almost en-
tirely on the U.S. Government publications
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IMPORTANCE AND MEANS OF PRESERVING LOCAL HISTORY
LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
TENTH ANNUAL GENEALOGICAL INSTITUTE AND WORKSHOP
May 23,24, 1964 - DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY
PAPER PRESENTED BY: James Wilkins, President (1964) MODERATOR:
Smith County Historical Society Mr. John Plath Green
Tyler, Texas
"STORIES IN STONE...TOMBSTONE RECORDATION"
There's no real need to convince fellow genealogists that tombstones are a rich
source of family data..and local historians agree that old cemeteries are a part of
our historical heritage. Research on early communities, for example, often begins
and ends in some abandoned, overgrown burying place.
Convinced of its merits, my wife and I set out to locate and record the inscrip-
tions of every white cemetery in our county...from the single marker in somebody's
field, to the enormous city burial ground with its thousands of stones, to the un-
inspiring brass flatness of the memorial parks.
Even at the beginning, we decided that this was not to be a record of the people
buried in each cemetery, but rather a record of the inscriptions found there... every
tombstone, every tin funeral home marker, every name and date that-was readable.
We used boxes of chalk, suffered tickbites and poison ivy. We had tombstones
fall near us and on us, and copied hour-after-hour in everything from 1050 in the
shade to below-freezing weather. Our two small children (now 4 and 6) went with us
on every expedition' They soon became experts on the chalking of a weather-worn
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