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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 25585
Library of Virginia
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Stephen Osborne Southall was born in Woodstock, Virginia on
15 May 1858. He attended Kenmore High School, Amherst Court
House, and the University of Virginia. In 1890, he graduated
from the Theological School of the Episcopal Church and was
placed in charge of the churches in Tazewell County. He also
served in Lunenburg Parish in Richmond County, Rocky Mount,
Virginia, and Wilmer Parish in Prince Edward County. He
married (1) Nelly E. Southall in 1891 and (2) Julia Pride
(Wood) on 26 April 1899. The children from his second marriage
included three sons: Stephen Osborne, Valentine Wood, and
Robert Goode. He died in Amelia County on 10 December
1943.
Papers, 1885-1943, of Stephen Osborne Southall primarily
consisting of genealogical research material for the Southall
and related families. Includes correspondence, genealogical
notes, pedigrees, horse pedigrees, abstracts of county and
church records, and thirty-seven notebooks.
The correspondence includes letters to and from various
people either asking for or providing genealogical
information. The notebooks (labeled Volumes I-XXXVII) contain
genealogical notes, and transcripts of county, church, and
census records, correspondence, bible records, and excerpts
from newspapers and other publications. This collection
includes genealogical information on the following families:
Allen, Alexander, Anderson, Archer, Argall, Atkinson, Barrett,
Bibb, Bland, Boisseau, Booker, Bowden, Boyd, Branch, Brown,
Burwell, Cabanis, Carter, Chappell, Clay, Cobbs, Cocke, Cox,
Craddock, Cutler, Cutts, Dabney, Dangerfield, Darricote,
Dickie, Dickson, Dixon, Epes, Farrar, Filmer, Fitzgerald,
Flournoy, Ford, Fowles, Frost, Goode, Goodwyn, Green,
Greenway, Hardaway, Hardyway, Harris, Harrison, Hatcher,
Henry, Irving, Jarratt, Jeter, Johnston, Jones, Ligon,
Lockett, Macon, Marston, McCullock, Meriwether, Milton,
Morris, Moseley, Mutter, Nicholas, Osborne, Platt, Pleasants,
Pollard, Pride, Proctor, Pryor, Radford, Royall, Saunders,
Seay, Scott, Shelton, Southall, Steger, Stern, Stras, Strass,
Sullivan, Syme, Tanner, Taylor, Thaxton, Townes, Underwood,
Vandewall, Van Zandt, Walthall, Watkins, Webster, Wills,
Wilson, Winston, Withers, Wood, and Woodson.
Alphabetical List of Marriage Licenses
Granted by the Clerk of Chesterfield County Court,
1771-1803 (typescript)
Box 2 Folder 6
List of Tithables, Amelia County,
1786
Box 3
Volume I
"Scott, Southall, Green, Clay, Lockett, Ligon,
Branch, Argall, Epes, Osborne, Tanner, and Hatcher" -
This volume contains genealogical notes, abstracts of
county records, extracts from publications, and
transcripts of Bible records relating to the following
families: Argall, Branch, Clay, Filmer, Green, Hatcher,
Jones, Ligon, Lockett, Milton, Marston, Moseley,
Osborne, Scott, Southall, and Tanner. Pages 165-391 are
blank. Includes an index.
Box 3
Volume II
"Southall, Underwood, Dangerfield" - This
volume includes genealogical notes relating to the
following families: Dangerfield, Goode, Macon, Mutter,
Southall, and Vandewall. Pages 79-97 and 99- 347 are
blank. Also, a number of pages appear to have been torn
out.
Box 3
Volume III
Contains a history of the Southall family in
England, transcripts of letters from Southalls in
England regarding the family history, and notes on the
family of Dasey Southall. Also includes: biographical
sketches of James Cocke Southall, Robert Goode Southall,
Stephen Osborne Southall (1816-1884), Dr. Turner
Harrison Southall, and Valentine Wood Southall
(1793-1861); Bible records for the Cutts family, the
Goode family, and the family of Dr. Philip Turner
Southall; and transcripts of newspaper articles on
various Southalls.
Box 4
Volume IV
"Southall, Tanner, Branch, Scott, Osborne,
Lockett, Henry, Wood" - This volume contains
genealogical notes on the following families: Branch,
Brown, Harris, Lockett, Osborne, Saunders, Scott (of
Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Caroline, and Prince Edward
Counties), Southall, and Wood (of Goochland County).
Also includes information on the English ancestors of
the Southall family, and transcripts of testimonials
published in various newspapers to Stephen O. Southall
on his untimely death. Includes a table of
contents.
Box 4
Volume V
"Governors of Virginia 1604-1788, Burgesses,
General Assembly, Speakers, Clerks of Assembly and
Burgesses, Parishes, Division of the State, Settlements,
Committees and other officers and facts, and Trustees
from 1660 to 1800, Amelia County, Other data" - This
volume lists the governors, members of the House of
Burgesses, General Assembly, and Council of Virginia,
Speakers of the House of Burgesses, Clerks of Assembly
and House of Burgesses, Virginia signers of the
Declaration of Independence and Articles of the
Confederation, some persons to whom charter of treasurer
was given, commissioners of court. Also includes
information on the evolution of the military in
Virginia, information on the creation of counties,
parishes, and settlements, transcripts of Littleton
Parish register including baptisms, communicants,
confirmations, marriages, and funerals, a genealogical
chart for the Meriweather family. Much of the material
in this volume was extracted from Henning Statutes.
Includes an index.
Box 4
Volume VI
"St. Peters New Kent, Diocesan Convention
1854, Bath Parish Dinwiddie, Southalls, Tanners, Scotts,
Symes, Cutlers, and others" - This volume contains
transcripts of marriages, births, deaths, baptisms and
clergy from St. Peters Parish (New Kent County);
transcripts of clergy, baptisms, marriages,
communicants, funerals, and confirmations from Bath
Parish (Dinwiddie County) Register; history,
inscriptions from Blandford Church Yard, and vestry
minutes from Bristol Parish; transcripts of minutes and
reports from the Annual Convention of the Diocese of
Virginia, 1854; an extract from the Journal of the
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
Diocese of Virginia (20 May 1846); list of lay delegates
to the Diocesan Conventions, 11785-1846; and marriage
licenses from Chesterfield County, 1771-1831. Also
includes a list of family names descended from
Pocahontas and genealogical notes on the following
families: Allen, Alexander (Robert Alexander family),
Archer, Bland, Boisseau, Branch, Clay, Cutler, Goode,
Goodwyn, Greenway, Jarratt (line of Reverend Devereux
Jarratt), Scott, Southall (North Carolina line), Syme,
Winston, and Withers.
Box 4
Volume VII
"Miss Bassett mare, Wood, Southall, Scott,
Tanner, Pride - This volume includes horse pedigrees,
transcripts and abstracts of Prince George County
records, and genealogical notes on the families of
Branch, Green, Henry, Jones, Scott, Southall, Syme,
Tanner, Walthall, and Wood.
Box 5
Volume VIII
"Charles City Southalls and Connections" -
Contains accounts, loose newspaper clippings regarding
the launching of the S. S. Sallie S. Cotton, published
story of the wounding in action of William B. Southall
at Chateau-Thierry, a biographical sketch of Richard M.
Graves, Bible records for the Nicholas and Harrison
families, and genealogical information on the Southall
family of Charles City. Pages 61-83, 89- 99, 181-323 are
blank.
Box 5
Volume IX
Includes genealogical information on the
following families: Anderson, Green, Jeter, Lockett,
Osborne, Pride, Scott, Southall, Steger, Stern, Tanner,
Wood. Page 180 includes a brief biographical sketch of
the author.
Box 5
Volume X
"Notes from Calendar of State Papers, Henrico
Marriages, Notes on Various Families" - This volume
contains transcripts of Henrico marriage bonds, an index
to female names in the Henrico County marriages, and
genealogical notes on the families of Clay, Cox, Frost,
Pleasants, Southall, Wilson, Wood, and
Woodson.
Box 5
Volume XI
"Early settlers of Alabama, Notes on Coxes of
Chesterfield, Clay, Negro uprisings, Bibb, Saunders,
Harris, Wilson, Minutes of Dinwiddie Co." - This volume
contains extracts from James Edmunds Saunders' Early
Settlers of Alabama, genealogical notes on the families
of Bibb, Clay, Cox, Harris, Ligon, Lockett, Saunders,
Scott, Wills, and Wilson, a chronology of African
American uprisings extracted from the Virginia Calendar
of State Papers, Volume IX, and abstracts of 1789
entries from the Dinwiddie County Minute Book. Pages
50-147 are blank.
Box 6
Volume XII
"Short Notes on Pride, Cox, Goode, etc." -
This volume contains genealogical notes on the Goode and
Cox families, and very short notes on the Pride family.
The majority of the pages in this volume are
blank.
Box 6
Volume XIII
Includes transcripts of Cumberland County
marriage bonds (extracted from the William and Mary
Quarterly), and genealogical notes on the families of
Atkinson, Cabanis, Clay, Cox, Jones, and Southall. The
majority of the pages in this volume are
blank.
Box 6
Volume XIV
"Gov. of Virginia 1607-1849, Judges of Supreme
Court (Circuit), Members of House and Senate, etc., List
of tithables in Amelia County beginning with year
1741-1768" - This volume contains lists of governors,
councils of state, judges of circuit superior courts,
congressmen and senators, judges, and members of the
General Assembly. Also includes extracts from Landon C.
Bell's "The Old Free State," minister's returns,
marriages and baptisms from the Douglas Register, lists
of tithables in Amelia County (1741-1768) and Nottoway
County (1771), Amelia County guardians, orphans, and
securities, and genealogical notes for the families of
Efford Booker, Seay, Steger, and Townes. Pages 126-141
and 147-193 are blank.
Box 6
Volume XV
"Amelia Marriages and other data" - This
volume includes Southall family information found in the
Order Books, Deed Books, and Will Books at the Amelia
County clerk's office, and transcripts of letters giving
information about different branches of the Southall
family in Mississippi, North Carolina, etc. Also
contains marriage bonds (A-M) of Amelia County, extracts
from "St. Mark's Parish," by Dr. Slaughter, genealogical
notes from the families of Clay, Green, Lockett, and
Withers, information on the families of Booker, Davis,
Green, Johnson, Lockett, Osborne, and Scott gleaned from
Prince Edward County records, information on the Lockett
family from the Cumberland County records, and
information on the Clay, Lockett, and Watkins families
from the Chesterfield County records.
Box 6
Volume XVI
Contains genealogical notes on the following
families: Archer, Bowden, Branch, Carter, Clay, Cocke,
Cox, Cutts, Green, Hatcher, Henry, Jones, Johnston,
Lockett, Meriwether, Mutter, Osborne, Pleasants, Pride,
Pryor, Royall, Scott, Southall, Steger, Tanner, Taylor,
Underwood, Webster, and Wood. Also includes a biography
of Charles Cutts and transcripts of resolutions of
respect for Judge Robert Goode Southall. Pages 269-416
are blank. Includes an index.
Box 7
Volume XVII
"Valentine Southall Latin, Algebra Book,
Dinwiddie, Virginia" - This composition book contains
lists of names with volume numbers, page numbers and
year, and transcripts and abstracts of deeds information
relating to the Pride family including.
Box 7
Volume XVIII
Contains transcripts and abstracts of deeds
and wills relating to the Pride family. Provides volume
and page numbers of deed and will books.
Box 7
Volume XIX
Includes marriages and court record abstracts
relating to the Pride family. The majority of the pages
in this volume are blank.
Box 7
Volume XX
"Halifax Records" - Primarily contains
information on the families of Booker, Clay, Green,
Henry, Lockett, Pride, and Thaxton taken from Halifax
County marriage bonds (1753-1800), deeds, and wills.
Also includes notes from the "History of Halifax," an
extract of an article from the Richmond News Leader
concerning a tomb in Chase, City, Virginia with
genealogical information on the Boyd, Burwell, and Goode
families, and abstracts from the 1790 Census of the
Clay, Green, Osborne, Pride, and Wood
families.
Box 7
Volume XXI
This volume contains genealogical notes on the
Southall family of Charles City County,
Virginia.
Box 7
Volume XXII
Includes genealogical notes on the families of
Anderson, Clay, Hardyway, Pride, and Webster,
transcripts of a list of vouchers began 8 March 1805,
abstracts of Methodist Conference minutes, excerpts from
the Gazetteer of Virginia, and excerpts from Cumberland
County records. Pages 3-12 are missing. Pages 13-17,
21-84, and 94-99 are blank.
Box 7
Volume XXIII
"Schools, Jno. Randolph of Roanoke, Saylors
Creek, Amelia Names" - This volume includes excerpts of
letters from John Randolph of Roanoke to his nephew,
transcripts of school advertisements published in
newspapers, excerpts from Walter A. Watson's Notes on
Southside Virginia regarding Saylor's Creek, land
patents of William Cox, and genealogical notes on the
Anderson, Booker, Clay, Cobbs, and Meriwether
families.
Box 7
Volume XXIV
"Mr. Virginius Wrenn's Register of his work in
Amelia, etc." - Contains transcripts of church
assignments, marriage records (1895-1923), baptisms
(1895-1922), confirmations (1895-1915), burials
(1895-1915), Raleigh Parish communicants (1898 May 1),
Bristol Parish vestry minutes (23 November 1721-15
September 1735), and excerpts from will book and Bristol
Parish Processioners Returns.
Box 7
Volume XXV
"Notes on Anderson, Wood, Pride, Clay, Booker,
Cocke, and Green" - This volumes includes abstracts of
order books, deeds and wills from various counties, and
family charts relating to the families of Anderson,
Archer, Booker, Clay, Cobbs, Cocke, Epes, Fitzgerald,
Flournoy, Ford, Green, Irving, Lockett, Marston,
Osborne, Pride, Scott, Southall, Sullivan, Tanner,
Winston, and Wood. Also includes ancestors of Colonel
William Byrd and information on Raines Tavern, Prince
Edward County, Virginia. Pages 1-44 are
missing.
Box 7
Volume XXVI
Contains genealogical on the following
families: Cox, Craddock, Cutts, Goode, Harris, Henry,
Johnston, Meriwether, McCullock, Pryor, Southall,
Strass, Underwood, Winston, and Wood (Goochland County).
Loose are clippings regarding Gilbert Stuart's portrait
of Richard Cutts.
Box 8
Volume XXVII
"Prince Edward Marriages, 1780 to 1800" - An
alphabetical list, by husband's name, of Prince Edward
County marriage bonds. Includes husband's name, wife's
maiden name, date of bond, and minister performing
ceremony.
Box 8
Volumes XXVIII and XXIX
"Book 1st, Notes from the Order Books of
Amelia County" and "Book II, Notes from the Order Books
of Amelia County" - These volume contains notes on
roads, church records, and court houses as found in
Amelia County Order Books, 1735-1769. The last two pages
of Book I contain excerpts of Amelia Academy 1856
Catalogue including description of school and names of
student and their parents.
Box 8
Volume XXX
"Worn out register of Amelia Wills New copy in
book no. I" - Contains Amelia County marriage bonds, and
register of Amelia County marriages with date and of
minister performing the ceremony. Loose are abstracts
from Prince Edward County Will Book L containing
information on the families of Booker, Lockett, Osborne,
and Scott, and genealogical notes on the Anderson,
Branch, Green, Scott, and Tanner families.
Box 8
Volume XXXI
"Copied in book no. I, Abstracts of Wills,
some fugitive data" - Includes genealogical notes on the
following families: Anderson (Amelia County), Booker,
Branch, Cobbs, Cocke, Jones, Locke, Osborne, Platt,
Pride, Tanner, and Webster. Also contains abstracts of
Amelia County wills including lists of family members,
administrators, witnesses, and date; abstracts of
Nottoway County wills; an index to Amelia County wills
with book and page numbers, and other descriptive data;
and a biographical sketch of William Barrett excerpted
from William and Mary Quarterly, Volume VII, p.
202.
Box 8
Volume XXXII
This volume contains genealogical notes on the
Archer, Booker, Branch, Chappell, Cox, Dickie, Farrar,
Goode, Green, Lockett, and Pleasants, and Pryor
families; lists of original members of the Society of
the Cincinnati, Virginia troops in Continental Line;
transcript of petition to Council, 4 June 1776,
regarding overseers and military service; marriage bonds
of Charles City, Elizabeth City, Middlesex, Surry,
Sussex, and York Counties; Chesterfield County deeds
relating to the Booker, Branch, Lockett, and Goode
families; and birth, baptismal, and death register of
St. Peter's Parish (New Kent, King William, King and
Queen, and Hanover Counties).
Box 8
Volume XXXIII
"Register of Raleigh and Dale Parishes and
Genito, Inventory of the Rev. W, Proctor" - This volume
contains transcripts from registers for the parishes of
Dale, Genito, and Raleigh including funerals, marriages,
baptisms, communicants, confirmations, and vestrymen.
Also includes Booker family genealogical notes and an
inventory (appraisement) of Rev. Wm.
Proctor.
Box 9
Volume XXXIV
"Hanover Records, St. Paul's, Other data" -
This volume contains genealogical notes on the following
families: Archer, Dabney, Darricote, Fowles, Morris,
Pollard, Radford, Royall, Shelton, Taylor, and Wood.
Also includes list of communicants; transcripts of
Hanover County record abstracts; transcripts of births,
baptisms, church wardens, and ministers from Bristol
Parish register; vestry minutes from St. Paul's Parish
and St. Peter's Parish; and extracts from the Calendar
of State Papers about the Episcopal Church regarding
appointment and removal of rectors and
petitions.
Box 9
Volume XXXV
"Southall and some collaterals, Van Zandts -
Page 37" - Includes transcripts of letters from other
Southalls containing family information and genealogical
notes on the families of Cutts, Dickson (Dixon), Mutter,
Shelton, Underwood, Vandewall, and Wood. Pages 133-179
are blank.
Box 9
Volume XXXVI
"Book No. I, Amelia Mar. Bonds, Amelia Wills,
Booker, Andersons, Prides, Woods, Tanners, and others,
Indexed" - This volume is the Book No. I referenced to
in Volumes XXX and XXXI. See the descriptions for these
volumes for more information.
Box 9
Volume XXXVII
"Southall, This book was commenced in 1885
when Mr. Southall was 27 years old. He kept the
information as it was given to him but never corrected
its errors. He had an idea that his aunt Emily Stras was
infallible until he searched the records for himself.
Other items are of interest" - This volume lists allied
families associated with the Southall Family (copied
from the Richmond Standard, 9 October 1880), and
includes genealogical notes on the Henry, Southall,
Winston, and Wood families.
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