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This book contains all the death records gathered by the Bureau of Vital Statistics for King George County during the period 1853 to 1896. This collection of abstracts includes the name of the deceased and the date of his or her death, cause of death, age at the time of death, parents, birthplace, spouse, and the informant's name and relationship to the deceased. In addition, slave deaths were sometimes recorded by their masters. The information was copied as it appeared in the original records; however, when the author found the discrepancies too obvious to ignore she included short editor's notes. Each record is listed in the order in which it appeared; page and line numbers corresponding to the original documents are given.
Set amidst lush, rolling hills, Louisa County was once home to religious dissenters, emancipationists and some of Virginias first families. Its epicenter was Louisa Courthouse, where all the countys residents managed their business affairs. From Patrick Henrys seminal speech for Louisa against tyranny, to a county chief justice too fat to ride horseback, Louisa has a rich and fascinating heritage. Historian and longtime Louisa County resident Pattie G.P. Cooke chronicles the countys coming of age as part of the new United States of America, retaining its small, tightly knit communities while embracing inevitable progress.
On April 11, 1853, the General Assembly of the State of Virginia passed an Act requiring that each county clerk keep marriage, birth and death records for his county-beginning January 1, 1854. The information required was place and date of death, full nam