A Guide to the Leon M. Bazile Hanover County Records, 1840-1941 Bazile, Leon M., Hanover County Records, 1840-1941 22393

A Guide to the Leon M. Bazile Hanover County Records, 1840-1941

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 22393

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Processed by: Trenton Hizer

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

22393

Title

Leon M. Bazile Papers, 1840-1941

Physical Description

20 leaves, positive and negative photostats

Collector

Leon M. Bazile

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Leon M. Bazile Hanover County Records, 1840-1941. Accession 22393. Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Lent for copying, 21 June 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 practiced 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, 1840-1941, collected by Leon M. Bazile (1890-1967) of Hanover County consisting of deeds, 1840-1880, plats, 1916-1941, and survey, 1880, for properties in Hanover County; a declaration, 28 November 1854, in a Hanover County chancery suit involving land; and an agreement, 6 July 1857, for the sale of property in Hanover County.

Contents List

Deed, dated 11 February and recorded 22 April 1840, for 75 acres in Hanover County from James (ca. 1797-1859) and Sarah D. King (1804-1858) to Nathaniel Claiborne Lipscombe (1771-1847), all of Hanover County.

Declaration, 28 November 1854, in the chancery suit of Benjamin Wingfield (ca. 1786-1855), et. al. against Mary Bledsoe Sutton Lipscombe (d. 1855), et. al. over a certain tract of land in Hanover County.

Deed, dated 13 January 1855 and recorded 18 January 1855, for 75 acres in Hanover County from Nathaniel Claiborne Lipscombe, Jr., (ca. 1816-1886), commissioner in the suit of Wingfield, et. al. vs. Lipscombe, et. al., to Jane Elizabeth Pegand (ca. 1790-1865), wife of Jean Francois Pegand (1790-1864), both of Hanover County.

Agreement, 6 July 1857, between J. Maurice Bazile (ca. 1826-1896) and Archibald Burnett Timberlake (b. ca. 1812), both of Hanover County, concerning the sale of a 277 1/2 acre farm.

Deed, 11 September 1858, for 75 acres from James L. Apperson (b. 1816), trustee, to e Bazile, both of Hanover County

Deed and survey, dated 6 May 1880 and recorded 10 May 1880 (survey was made 28 April 1880), for 85 acres in Hanover County from Thomas J. (b. ca. 1830) and Jane Wooldridge (b. ca. 1832) to Bazile, all of Hanover County.

Plat, 3 April 1916, for 77 acres in Hanover County, known as "Retirement" made by Wortham Peatross.

Plat, 30 January 1930, for part of "Ivy Bank" in Hanover County made by T. Crawford Redd and Brothers, Inc.

Plat, 4 August 1941, for 186.5 acres in Hanover County, known as "La Madelene" made by W. H. Redd (1902-1984).