Braxton County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0789
County court and public records consisting primarily of case papers; records of county officers; estate settlements; birth, marriage and death records; and land and tax records. There are also election records; deeds and deed indexes; and records of the administration of public health and welfare.
This collection consists of two series: microfilm, and original materials: Series 1-Microfilm, and Series 2- Original Materials
This collection is minimally processed; materials are stored mostly as they arrived: in their original envelopes, or loose in boxes, and so that records produced for the same reason are generally together. Records have not been chronologized or alphabetized, and there is no indexing for the collection.
For materials in boxes 1, 14-16, 26-30, and 44, and items 6, 9, 17, 19, 66, 69, 72, 104, 156, and 176, researchers should use microfilm (boxes 1, 28, 30, and 44 are only partially microfilmed). Materials that have not been microfilmed are open for research.
The child hygiene records in boxes 46-48 are restricted until 2043, 100 years from the date of creation in 1936-1943, unless an individual grants permission to access their record or the WVRHC is given proof of death that occurred in excess of 50 years prior to the date of request. Researchers collecting summary data may submit an Access Request Form.
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
58.56 Linear Feet (Summary: 58 ft. 6 ¾ in. (74 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (18 wrapped packages, 4 ft. 4 in.); (157 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each))
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County court and public records consisting primarily of case papers; records of county officers; estate settlements; birth, marriage and death records; and land and tax records. There are also election records; deeds and deed indexes; and records of the administration of public health and welfare.
The collection was loosely arranged into topical series for each accession, so that the first accession contained four series (court records, public records, county financial records, and county health records), and the second accession had seven series (court, tax statements, road funds, DPA [Department of Public Assistance?] records, blank forms, box 75, and county financial records). The materials remain loosely grouped in these topical categories.
Some of the materials are grouped together by case, and have a note about record type (deeds, marriage licenses, etc.), persons involved, or the year on the envelope, or on a paper attached to the records.
Only microfilm is stored onsite, all original material is stored offsite; please make an appointment prior to visiting.
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Gift of J. S. Perrine, President of Braxton County Court of Sutton, W.Va., 1955 September 24.
Second Accession: Gift of William W. Jack of the Braxton County Court, 1956 October 29.
This collection was originally two accessions, one in 1955 and one in 1956. The second accession was briefly A&M 913. Processing efforts throughout the years have gradually merged the two together, but some elements of the original separation remain. Boxes 1-48 were part of the original accession, and boxes 49-76 (accessioned as 1-28) for the second. As part of the most recent reprocessing efforts in March 2026, boxes 67-76 were renumbered so that box numbering was sequential (they had been relabeled as boxes 78-87, and the skipped numbers were used for some of the wrapped packages). Assistance can be provided for researchers needing to match old box numbers to new box numbers.
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository