Research By County

Multiple lists, details, and maps for the 7,975 Wilkes County Land Grants.

In 1839, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Education Act which led to the formalization of county school districts. In Wilkes County, these were created on March 4, 1841, as detailed in Volume 1 of the Wilkes County Board of Education Minutes. These boundaries aren't very detailed, but combined with other information, they can be mapped accurately enough to see the general area where families lived.
The black numbers and boundary lines are the original districts created in 1841. The green districts are the ones that were added or amended over the following twelve years. The Board of Education was abandoned before the Civil War, but it was re-established in the 1870s. The Minutes books and the individual census pages for each district are available at the NC State Archives and on familysearch.org.

A group of maps showing land purchased in 1902 by the Stone Mountain Granite and Timber Company on the waters of Roaring River.

This is an assortment of obituaries for Wilkes and Alleghany Co between 1869 and 1982.

Mainly from Wilkes and Alleghany Co in NC, and Carroll and Pulaski Co in VA. There are about 440 names here from cemeteries I visited mainly in the 1990s. They are listed alphabetically by last name.

I received these records from the NC State Archives in 2005.

His son Jonas Bauguess was the administrator, but he had a difficult time settling the account. He experienced a classic case of sibling rivalry.

Ezra Deborde was born in 1825. After being forced to enlist in the Confederate Army by the Home Guard, he left home in October 1863. His first action was in Tennessee the following month where he was tragically killed in his first battle. These pages are from his pension file requested by his wife Mary C. Boaz Deborde in 1885.

This 60-page booklet was printed in 1906 as a marketing tool to bring in new business to the new town of North Wilkesboro.

This pdf file lists the grandchildren of Richard Bauguess who settled in Traphill in 1789.

Bauguess cousins often used the same names for their children, and this is an attempt at sorting them all out. This pdf file lists the Bauguess families as they are found in early census records, starting with Richard Bauguess (born 1750s).

This pdf file is a 13-page booklet of memories and information about Joynes School that was located on Longbottom Rd near Little Stone Mountain Baptist Church. This was shared with me by Virginia Johnson.