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Historical Records from Bolivar

120 records 1832–1976

GIRL PUTS NEGRO TO FLIGHTBolivar Teacher Fires Four Shots At Night Intruder[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] Harpers Ferry, W.…

Bolivar Teacher Fires Four Shots at Intruder

1909
List of the Taxable Land in Jefferson County for the Year 1874. Name of Owner Flanagan, Jas. heirs Residence Bolivar…

Land Book, 1874 – James Flanagan, heirs

1874
Mr. Fenton Cockerel, of the vicinity of Bolivar, by some means had his clothing caught in the machinery of his…

Fenton Cockrell, Escaped Injury

1895
On the 26th July, at Bolivar, in this County, Mr. JAMES CONLIN, a native of Ireland, aged 71 years. He…

Death: James Conlin

1870
List of the Taxable Land in Jefferson County for the Year 1873. Name of Owner Flanagan, Fannie Residence Bolivar Estate,…

Land Book, 1873 – Fannie Flanagan

1873
Matthew McCormick, a native of Ireland, this day applied to the Court to be admitted a citizen of the United…

Naturalization: Matthew McCormick

1844
THE CHOLERA. — Since our last publication, Mr. Wm. C. House, and a Mr. Watson, died of cholera. They resided…

House, Watson, cholera death

1850
Died Oct. 17, 1862, near Kerneysville, Turner Ashby, son of James F. and A. M. Randal, aged 8 months, 2…

Deaths in Shepherdstown Register 06 Jan 1866

1866
Died, February 16, 1902, at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, Edward Tearney, aged eighty four years and fourteen days. Mr. Tearney…

In Memoriam: Edward Tearney

1902
List of the Taxable Town Lots in Jefferson County for the Year 1851. Name of Owner Walsh, Michael, Heirs Residence…

Land Book, 1851 – Michael Walsh Heirs

1851
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Obituaries & Deaths 32 Real Estate 31 Census 14 Industry 9 Government & Law 6 Visitations 6 Births & Baptisms 5 Military 4 Epidemics 4 Crime & Murders 4
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Families in Bolivar

People and surnames most strongly associated with Bolivar.

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Common Surnames

Flanagan 32 Walsh 24 Welsh 23 Daniels 17 Moler 11 Kidwiler 10 Hopper 7 Moore 7 Hackley 6 Jones 5 McGlone 5 Smallwood 5 Badger 4 Brown 4 Eackles 4
Frances Magdalena Flanagan 1808–1896
Michael Welsh 1846–1922
Catherine Irene Eichelberger 1874–1947
Mary E. Welsh 1870–1871
John Doody 1810–1881
Mary Catherine Welsh 1850–1940
Christopher William Slavin 1820–1858
Thomas Buchanon Walsh, Sr. 1834–1875

A Timeline of Harpers Ferry

St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Harpers Ferry: An Irish Parish on American Soil

Without the Irish, there would be no Catholic congregation in Harpers Ferry. Although St. Peter's…

River Boyne. County Louth Ireland LCCN2002717437

The unveiling of Elizabeth Slavin

By the 1860 census, a young Irish girl had taken residence with Thomas and Annie Walsh in Bolivar, [West] Virginia. Who is she and why did she live with Tommy…

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