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Publications
Home PageThe Rockingham County Historical Collection - This impressive and growing collection is a MUST SEE if you are stopping by Rockingham County for a research trip. Click here to view a list of the types of materials you will find here.Rockingham Community College - James Library
North Carolina Collection - The library also contains a North Carolina publication section.
Rockingham County Historical Society
The following publications are listed for sale on the Rockingham County Historical Society website. I list them here for your convenience.
Postcards from Rockingham County - A book containing reprints of over 50 historic postcards
Rockingham County - A Brief History
Rockingham County Will Abstracts, Vol II - 1965-1915
Rockingham County Marriages - Through 1968
Rockingham County Heritage Book ©1982 (2004 Reprint)
Back issues of The Journal of Rockingham County History and Genealogy
Genealogical Society of Rockingham and Stokes Counties
The following publications are listed for sale on the Genealogical Society of Rockingham and Stokes Counties website. I list the Rockingham related references here for your convenience.
Rockingham & Stokes Counties, NC Listing of Estate papers filed with the NC State Archives
Bible Records of Rockingham County, NC Vols. 1 & 2
Rockingham County Marriage License Index
Cemetery Records of Rockingham & Stokes Counties, Vol. 1 - 7
Greenview Cemetery, A Survey
Some Cemeteries of Eden, NC
Federal Census of Rockingham County (1850-1880 Available)
The First Families of Mayodan, NC, 1900 Census
Confederate Pensioners and Widows of Rockingham County
The Smith Family of Rockingham County
Many other Stokes County and other publications are listed.
The Rockingham County Public Library has a North Carolina history section. The library site can be found here: http://www.rcpl.org/index.html
UNC University Libraries
è Reference copies is available at the Madison-Mayodan Library and the Bassett Historical Center, Bassett, VA (In neighboring Henry County).Footprints of the Past - Wigington/Wiggenton Families - The Wigington family lived in Henry County and Patrick County, Virginia. Some of the descendants of these Wigington families moved into Rockingham and Stokes Co., NC. Volume 3 covers Wigington, Wigginton (and other spellings); there are many other family names covering the female marriages...I just didn't follow their husband's families ancestors further than his parents in most cases. This book also contains information regarding the relationship of Pocahontas to Wigington; Letitia Wigington of England 1681; The Aquia Massacre (1697) of William Wigington's wife and 3 children; Sophia Wigington Hume 1702-1774; George Wigginton 1862 a member of Quantrill's Raiders; Edith Bolling, 2nd wife of Woodrow Wilson; and 2002 Aquia Quarry Presentation. A chapter is dedicated to Wigington Patriots, soldiers in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Indian War, Civil War (on both sides) and Draft Registration Cards for WWI.
è Available for purchase for $40.00 plus $2.81 for postage from: Eva Joann Caravito, 2912 Eldon Drive, Uniontown, Ohio 44685-9723
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