A Guide to the Leon M. Bazile Hanover County Records, 1796-1842
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 22467
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Preferred Citation
Leon M. Bazile Hanover County Records, 1796-1842. Accession 22467. Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Lent for copying 17 August 1945, by Leon M. Bazile, Elmont, Virginia.
Biographical Information
Leon Maurice Bazile was born 9 September 1890 in Hanover County, Virginia to Aime Maurice Bazile (1848-1928) and Josephine Fox Bazile (1858-1926). He attended Hanover County public and private schools and Richmond College, from where he earned his LLB in 1910. Bazile practice law in Richmond, Virginia, until 1916, when he became assistant attorney-general for Virginia. Retiring from that post in 1930, he returned to private practice. In 1935, he was elected to represent Hanover and King William Counties in the Virginia House of Delegates. He served in the House until appointed judge of 15th judicial circuit court from 1941 until his retirement in 1965. Bazile was also a historian of Hanover County and active in education. He married Virginia Hamilton Bowcock (1889-1970) of Alabama 26 January 1918, and they had one daughter. Bazile died 18 March 1967 at his home "Retirement" in Hanover County and was buried in the family plot.
Scope and Content
Hanover County, Virginia, records, 1796-1842, collected by Leon M. Bazile (1890-1967) of Hanover County consisting of deeds, 1796-1829, and surveys, 1796, for real property in Hanover County, including the Offley Mill tract; plats, no date, of the Offley Mill tract; memoranda, 1837-1842, concerning assignment of a bond and a deed of trust from John Cooke (1801-1861) to Dr. Carter Berkeley; and a copy of the will, 1842, of Samuel Terrell of Caroline County, Virginia. The will is incomplete.