Davie County Records and Family Links

MISCELLANEOUS LOCAL AND HISTORY LINKS

• Davie County NCGenWeb Archives

• Rowan County NCGenWeb Archives
  Prior to 1836 Davie County was part of Rowan County. The Rowan archives include quite a few documents with relevance to Davie families. I have listed some of these links here that pertain to families that I recognize as being in Davie, but be sure to check the archives page itself, since it's updated frequently.
  Bible of John BEEMAN
  Forks of the Yadkin Baptist Church, history contributed by Mary Meyer
  deed, Catherine Beck & Daniel Beck to Ludwick Beck
  will of John BEAMAN, 1819
  will of Battley BRYAN, 1810
  will of Thomas H. CAIN, 1832
  will of Henry CALL, 1774
  will of Adam CASPER, 1844
  will of Henry CASPER, 1832
  will of Peter K. CASPER, 1786
  will of Pleasant CHAFFIN, 1815
  will of Nicholas COPE, 1785
  will of Charles HUNTER, 1803
  will of John KELLER Sr., 1803
  will of John McMAHAN - 1776
  will of James RATLEDGE Sr., 1813
  will of Seaborn TACKER, 1805

• The Revolutionary War Battle of Shallow Ford
  Ann Brownlee's page of research on a battle in what is now Yadkin Co. (but very close to Davie) October 14, 1780.

• Another page by Ann Brownlee that includes local information: The Struggle for Independence in North Carolina

CENSUS RECORDS, TAX LISTS AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

• 1850 Davie Co. census index, every name

• 1850 Davie Co. census index
  160k tab-delimited text file for import into database or spreadsheet format

• census township map from S-K Publications

• Rowan Co. 1790 census
  (80.4k ftp file)

• 1759 Rowan County tax list

• Davie County population table by decades 1900-2000

• Davie County 1850 Census Project

CEMETERY AND CHURCH RECORDS

• locations of churches and cemeteries of Davie County
  Thanks to Ron Cornelius for this very useful page!

• The Political Graveyard, Davie County NC
  Famous and infamous people buried in Davie County

• Eaton Baptist Meeting House Records, 1772
  Thanks to Faye Moran!
  For more information on this church, also see the manuscript Dutchman's Creek Church of Jesus Christ in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill

• There are more cemetery records in the Davie County NCGenWeb Archives

  Davie County photographs in the North Carolina Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
  This page displays a photo of Ascension Church in the community of Fork, ca. 1920s

OBITUARIES

• Davie County Enterprise-Record, current obituaries

• list of some 2002 obituaries
  These are no longer available on line, but can be found in archived or microfilmed copies of the newspaper

FAMILY PAGES AND OTHER GENEALOGY SITES

• Will of Polly McGuire, 1853, transcribed by Glinda Edmonds

• Access Genealogy page of Davie County deaths in World War II

• Migrations project, Davie County entries

• Charles Wilson's WILSON family tree page includes BEAMAN, PINCHBACK, HOLEMAN and other Davie Co. names

• PARKER family of Rowan and Davie Counties

• Christian FENDER family; includes a map of early landholders near the Fender tract

• Descendants of Christian Edward BRENDEL

• Karen Gideon's CLIFFORD FAMILY HISTORY includes many Davie County families

• Pat Geary's page on the BOONE family.

• Dan Michael Patterson's RowanRoots site includes some Davie county names.

• Orrell Family Association

• Carline Harp Doyle's web page has information on the WHITAKER family and many others.

• Clark Family repository
  John B. Clark and his son Eli S. Clark were members of Beals Chapel Methodist Church; contact Liz Clark for information on this family.

• Jarvis Family page by Faye Moran includes data on BRINEGAR, HELPER, MYERS, ORRELL, and SHUTT families of Davie County

• Generations page by Elizabeth Harris includes the BRINEGAR, BROCK, BROWN, CHINN, CUTHRELL, and HENDRICKS families of Davie County