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Featured below is a copy of the Table of Contents from the current issue of our quarterly newsmagazine, “Piedmont Lineages”, which is distributed to members of our Society as part of their annual membership cost. This should give you an indication of the types of material we publishin each issue.


Piedmont Lineages


The Quarterly Journal

of

The Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society




Volume XXVI


February 2004


Number 1

President’s Message

 

by Cynthia O. Hewett

 

ii

From the Librarian

 

by Charlotte Lowther

 

ii

A Timeline of Events in the History of Rocky Mount

 

published in The Historical News, October 2003

 

1

Early Henry County Deaths, 1847

 

from Richmond, VA Newspapers in Society Files

 

2

Early Halifax County Death, 1847

 

from Richmond, VA Newspapers in Society Files

 

2

Anthony Par Lipford, Patriot

 

Contributed by Beverly Lipford Yeager

 

3

Death of a Rockingham County Man, from the Memphis Daily Appeal, October 19, 1876

 

Abstracted by Larry Brandon

 

4

Findings from Our Files: Bible Records

 

from Society files

 

5

Person County Woman Dies, from The Nashville Christian Advocate, January 14, 1892

 

Abstracted by Larry Brandon

 

6

Chesley Cockerham and His Family, Part II of III

 

by Frank Cockerham, Melbourne, FL

 

7

Rivers, Creeks and Branches in Pittsylvania County, VA

 

by Mike K. Williams

 

11

Rudder, Dejarnette and Francis Cemeteries

 

Contributed by Bernice Rudder

 

12

Memories of Long Ago, Diary of Lala Ingram Wade, Pt. V

 

Contributed by Cynthia Owens Hewett

 

15

Miscellaneous Halifax County Deaths, Summer 1846, from the Southwestern Christian Advocate

 

Abstracted by Larry Brandon

 

17

Person County Woman Dies, from The Nashville Christian Advocate, March 17, 1892

 

Abstracted by Larry Brandon

 

18

Death Notices for Caswell County Residents, from The Nashville Christian Advocate, March 17, 1892

 

Abstracted by Larry Brandon

 

19

Pittsylvania Co. Inventories & Accounts Current Book for Sale

 

 

 

19

Queries

 

by Lineages Staff Members

 

20

Rockingham County Woman Dies, from The Nashville Christian Advocate, May 25, 1872

 

Abstracted by Larry Brandon

 

20

Book Review

 

by Lineages Staff

 

21

Acquisitions

 

by Marillyn Halstead

 

22

Death Notices from Franklin County, VA, 1845-1847

 

from Richmond, VA Newspapers, in Society Files

 

22

Index of Names from 2003 issues of Piedmont Lineages

 

Compiled by Ermine Payne

 

23

Second-Hand Quarterlies for Sale

 

 

 

44

Publications

 

 

 

45

Postmaster Lumpkin and Ben Powell have fight

 

Published in Danville Register, Sept. 7, 1928, from Society Files

 

Inside Back

Cover

Book for Sale

 

 

 

Outside Back Cover



Volume XXVI

May 2004

Number 2

President’s Message

 

by Cynthia O. Hewett

 

ii

Chesley Cockerham and His Family

 

by Frank E. Cockerham

 

47

Are You Ill?

 

From “The Times of Franklin”

 

50

Findings from Our Files: Bible Records

 

from Society Files

 

51

Oldest County Resident Dies at 105 Years

 

from Society Files

 

53

Death in Tennessee

 

from The Christian Advocate, Nashville, TN

 

53

Pittsylvania County, Virginia Families

 

from Society Files

 

54

Early Henry County Marriages

 

from Virginia Appalachian Notes

 

55

Death of George Saunders – Charlotte, NC

 

from Society Files

 

56

Early Caswell County Deaths

 

from Multiple Sources

 

57

DNA Testing – Tearing Down Those Brick Walls

 

Submitted by Adrian Williams, Project Administrator

 

58

Died in Tennessee

 

from The Nashville Christian Advocate, TN

 

59

In Remembrance – Henry & Amillia S. Bohanan

 

contributed by Arthur M. Bohanan, New Market, TN

 

60

Voters for Representatives to VA Convention

 

from Janie Crosby’s collection

 

61

More Henry County Marriages

 

from Virginia Appalachian Notes

 

61

Mrs. Laura Crump Patrick Dies

 

from Society files

 

62

Biographies of Society Members

 

by Richard B. Anderson, Jr., Piedmont Lineages Editor

 

63

Bradley Family Items

 

Submitted by Sandra Shortridge

 

64

Payment of Bounty Due Deceased Soldiers

 

from Society files

 

65

Suicide at Reidsville

 

from Society files

 

66

Processioned Land – 1817

 

from Janie Crosby’s collection

 

67

Early Rockingham, NC News

 

from The Southwestern Christian Advocate

 

67

Colonel Thomas Leftwich

 

by Kathy Carmichael Colby

 

68

William Dixon Carnell Dies

 

from The Christian Advocate, Nashville, TN

 

69

The Buck Bryant Testimony

 

from Janie Crosby’s collection

 

70

Veterans Can Request Copy of Separation Notices

 

from Library of Virginia Official Newsletter

 

71

Sudden Death of State Senator Clark

 

from Lynchburg Daily Virginian, February 3, 1875

 

72

Died in Rockbridge County

 

from Death Notices from Richmond, VA Newspapers

 

72

Watlington & Scarce Family Marriages

 

from files of Janie Crosby

 

73

Another Gone – Dr. G. K. Bagby Passes Away

 

Supplied by member Helen Ligon

 

76

Paul Jones on Roads

 

from Society files

 

77

Person County Death in Tennessee

 

from The Christian Advocate, February 2, 1884

 

77

Mrs. Cornelia Adeline Webb

 

from The Nashville Christian Advocate, March 17, 1892

 

78

Acquisitions

 

by Marillyn Halstead

 

79

A Taste of the Past

 

from “The Times of Franklin” by Franklin Co. Historical Society

 

80

Queries

 

 

 

81

Minutes of March 4, 2004 Regular Meeting

 

Minutes of Society Meeting

 

82

Publications

 

 

 

83

Ingram Institute, Halifax County, VA

 

from Society Files

 

Inside Back

Cover

Book for Sale

 

 

 

Outside Back Cover


 

Volume XXVI

August 2004

Number 3

President’s Message

 

by Cynthia O. Hewett

 

ii

Piedmont Lineages Wins 2nd Place

 

by Richard B. Anderson, Jr., Editor

 

85

Findings from Our Files – Bible Records

 

from Society files

 

 

Norcutt-Waggoner-Smith

 

 

 

87

Shorter

 

 

 

88

Hampton-Logan

 

 

 

89

Deed Books Often Give More Than Metes and Bounds

 

by Mary Leigh Boisseau

 

90

Early Pittsylvania County Tidbits

 

from Society files

 

91

Personal Property Tax Lists, Pittsylvania Co., 1788-1806

 

from Janie Crosby’s files

 

92

Improvements Coming to Piedmont Lineages

 

by Richard B. Anderson, Jr., Editor

 

94

Clement Baptist Church Cemetery, Person County, NC

 

from the files of researcher W. Ernest Blalock

 

95

You Can Search Census Pages on the Internet

 

by Bill Grier

 

100

Piedmont Railroad

 

from Society files

 

101

Old Blalock Cemetery, Person County, NC

 

from the files of researcher W. Ernest Blalock

 

102

Early Halifax County Deaths

 

Transcribed by member Larry Brandon

 

104

Genealogy and the Internet

 

by Richard B. Anderson, Jr.

 

105

Early Pittsylvania County Tidbits

 

from Society files

 

107

Biographies of Society Members

 

 

 

108

Reverend George Stevens

 

Contributed by member Mrs. Betty Fitzgerald

 

109

Danville Male School Meeting

 

from Society files

 

110

My Virginia

 

by Kenneth W. Colby

 

111

Early Person County Deaths

 

Transcribed by member Larry Brandon

 

112

Death of Rev. John Tillett

 

Transcribed by member Larry Brandon

 

113

At a Meeting of the Council

 

from Society files

 

114

Early Caswell County Divorces

 

from NC Archives, transcribed by Larry Brandon

 

115

Acquisitions

 

 

 

117

Book Reviews

 

by Lineages staff

 

118

Queries

 

by Lineages staff

 

120

Publications

 

 

 

121

Home of Mrs. Bettie S. Ray, Halifax County, VA

 

from WPA files

 

Inside Back

Cover

Christmas Dinner Notice

 

 

 

Outside Back Cover





Back Issues for 2003



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