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Historical Records from Bolivar

120 records 1832–1976

List of the Taxable Town Lots in Jefferson County for the Year 1850. Name of Owner Walsh, Michael, Heirs Residence…

Land Book, 1850 – Michael Walsh Heirs

1850
Bolivar Names New PolicemanBy MARTIN D. WELSH JR.Herald Correspondent BOLIVAR, W. Va. — Mayor Robert Dunn has appointed a Bakerton…

Bolivar Names Bakerton Man New Policeman

1965
County Jefferson District Harpers Ferry Town or City Bakerton Full Name Adam McClellan Best Residence Bakerton Personal and Statistical Particulars…

Death Certificate: Adam McClellan Best

1934
Register of Marriage Licenses by the Clerk of Jefferson County, Virginia Lines No. 8 Date October 26, 1876 Town or…

Marriage: John Flanagan & Eliza Krepps

1876
Register of Births Within The District of Charles H. Trail, Assessor, For The County Of Jefferson, In The Year Ending…

Birth: Stillborn Flanagan (1880)

1880
Line # 24 Name in Full Chas. Flanegan Color W Sex M Date of Death Oct. [1880] Place of Death…

Death Register: Charles F. Flanagan

1880
The account given in Thursday’s issue of our paper is mainly correct, as to sales of the Public Property at…

Government Sales, second & third day

1869
List of the Taxable Town Lots in Jefferson County for the Year 1847. Name of Owner Walsh, Michael, Heirs Residence…

Land Book, 1847 – Michael Walsh Heirs

1847
Died on Saturday, January 18, 1896, of heart failure, Miss MARGARET T. McGRAW, of Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., in the…

Obituary: Margaret T. McGraw

1896
On the paling fences vines are still trailing their green length. The cosmos of white and pink blossoms and every…

Harpers Ferry & Bolivar Items

1907
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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
Mary E. Welsh 1870–1871
Mary Catherine Welsh 1850–1940
Margaret Virginia Welsh 1873–1925
Patrick Henry Welsh 1863–1931
Christopher William Slavin 1820–1858
Michael Welsh 1846–1922
Catherine Irene Eichelberger 1874–1947
John Doody 1810–1881

A Short History of The U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry

A Timeline of Harpers Ferry

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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