Grayson County, Virginia Heritage Foundation

03/10/2025

https://www.reinssturdivantfuneralhome.net/obituary/william-young

William Dale Young, Jr Dale, P**a, Grandpa, 75, passed away February 28th, 2025, surrounded by his family. Dale was born in Bakersfield, California on June 22nd, 1949 to Maxine Ruby VanHoy and William Dale Young, Sr.. He grew up in Middle River, Maryland, where he graduated from Kenwood High School,

03/10/2025

With the recent passing of Dale Young, the Foundation is in conversation with the Grayson County Historical Society for future direction and preservation of records and donations. The availability of New River Notes is a primary online resource that continues and will always be safeguarded for the future. You may know the names of Rusty Vaughn, Casey Cornette, Rich Ballard, and myself, Don Thomas. We are committed to navigating the journey ahead with profound respect for all that has gone before in our beloved Grayson County, Virginia.

09/28/2024

From my mom’s scrapbook (Paxey Hash Thomas of Mouth of Wilson). Prayers for all affected by the current catastrophic flooding. Grayson County, Va, Historical Society

12/19/2023

A Christmas card dated, perhaps 1940, from David and Virginia Thomas Greear, founders of the Greear Studio in Marion, Va. Virginia was the daughter of Stephen Glenn Thomas and Kate Cox, of Grayson County, Virginia.

10/31/2022

From Rich Ballard:

On behalf of the Grayson County Heritage Foundation I'm happy to announce the release of an update to the New River Notes website. We owe George a big thank you for all of his time and effort in making this update.

This update is primarily a change to the system used to manage the site and some of the format and style of the pages. It does not include any significant change to the content or organization of NRN. This update will make it easier for us to manage the site and make changes to the content.

NRN is now built on the WordPress platform. This will make it much easier to change content. And much of that can be done with little or no knowledge of the HTML language used to format individual pages. Some of the things that are now much easier to do are:

Edit an existing page to correct errors or add updated information.
Add a new page that was prepared with your favorite word processor.
Delete information that is now known to be incorrect.

There's a lot of potential for improvement in NRN. But that can't be done without the help of many others. We'll need to recruit people to help manage and review new and updated content. We need researchers and authors to generate new content. There's much that can be done but it will require the support from those of you with interest in the history and genealogy of the upper New River area.

A little history -- NRN was first published by Jeff Weaver around 1998. I and Barbara Norvell worked with Jeff to revise the pages, clean up the organization, and move it from a server in Grayson County to the current newrivernotes.com URL. I think that was around 2005. Jeff transferred ownership of the site to the Grayson Heritage Foundation soon before his death. A short time after that I, Barbara and mostly George Simmons did more cleanup and modernization with the use of Adobe Dreamweaver. Over the last year or so George has single handedly converted that Dreamweaver version so that it is now managed with WordPress.

Visit the New River Notes website and scroll through the new version. You should see a new banner across the top with a picture of the New River. If you don't see the new page try to refresh your browser.

If you would like to discuss NRN you can reply to this message, send a private message to [email protected] or visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GCVHF/

- Rich

The GCVHF page is dedicated to help preserve the rich history of Grayson and its neighbors.

11/25/2021

This Thanksgiving with family in Middle Tennesssee, Grayson County Cheese turns my thoughts to family there.

03/23/2020

Troy Melvin and Sophronia Boyer Thomas are my g-grandparents. Pictured is their home in Grant. I lived there with my mom and dad, Raymond and Paxey Hash Thomas, after my birth in 1951 until moving to Marion around 1955.
My grandfather, Orrin Melvin Thomas is not pictured, so the photo pre-dates his birth in 1899.

07/19/2016

If you are interested in books that can help in your research of your Grayson heritage you might be interested in the promotion offered in the attached message.

I suggest that you look at these spotlighted sites:
-- http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/grayson_heritage_foundation - The proceeds of the books sold here support the GCVHF.
-- http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/grballard - These books include information from Grayson marriage licenses recorded from 1853 to 1923. The proceeds of the books sold here support the GCVHF.
-- http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/newriver - This page is owned by Jeff Weaver's widow. Proceeds of these sales help her.
You can also buy the books on the first two bullets plus the set of three Grayson County cemetery books directly from our web page or office at any time. But we can't offer the same discount as in this promotion.

Please pass this on to anyone you know who might be interested in these books.

The Grayson County, Virginia Heritage Foundation Inc. has been established to promote, preserve and educate the cultural and family heritages of Grayson County, Virginia. Specific objectives of the foundation include: - Educate members and the public about the history and heritage of Grayson County…

04/26/2016

The following twenty-two (22) Carroll County Cemeteries recently surveyed by Buford Wilson have been processed and uploaded to http://www.newrivernotes.com/index.htm. You can find these and many other Carroll County cemeteries in the Carroll section of the website.

ALDERMAN, SOLLIE CEMETERY
GOAD, JOHN CEMETERY
HORTON CEMETERY (Volunteer Road)
HURST CEMETERY
LAMKIN CEMETERY
LARGEN FAMILY CEMETERY
LAUREL FORK PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
LOVE CEMETERY
MARTIN CEMETERY (Rt. 221)
MARTIN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
MARTIN, BYRAM FAMILY CEMETERY
MELTON-BOWMAN CEMETERY
PUCKETT FAMILY CEMETERY
RASH FAMILY CEMETERY
SILVERLEAF CEMETERY
SKYLINE INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
SOWERS, ELI CEMETERY
WEBB CEMETERY (Snake Creek Road)
WEBB, ALEXANDER CEMETERY
WEBB, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CEMETERY
WILLARD FAMILY CEMETERY
WILLSON FAMILY CEMETERY

09/15/2015

Where was Lundy? Where was the Delp Orchard? These places and others plus a lot of people who lived in the upper Elk Creek area in the early 1900s are identified on this map. https://plus.google.com/105519768773071498474/posts/fmXg7BF6dba

People and Places around Comers Rock The map below is of a section of Grayson County starting west of Us 21 and includes Elk Creek Comers Rock and Bethe… - Grayson County, Virginia Heritage Foundation - Google+

08/10/2015

Need some help with place names in Grayson County? Check out the list at https://plus.google.com/105519768773071498474/posts/LDTgY7Aa2xo. There's also a link to a map showing most of the communities.

Grayson Communities and Place Names There were many small communities in Grayson County. Some had post offices. Some built up around something such as a… - Grayson County, Virginia Heritage Foundation - Google+