Welcome to Gilmer County WV History and Genealogy Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists West Virginia is covered under our "Northeastern States" mailing list. Gilmer County was formed in 1845 from parts of Lewis and Kanawha Counties, and named for Thomas Walker Gilmer, Governor of Virginia from 1840 to 1841. Gilmer was later a representative in the United States Congress and Secretary of the Navy in President John Tyler's cabinet. The county seat is Glenville. As of 2007, Gilmer County had only one traffic light. It is located in the city of Glenville. (source: wikipedia.org) Towns * Glenville * Sand Fork Other Communities * Baldwin * Cedarville * Coxs Mills * Gilmer * Lettergap * Linn * Normantown * Rosedale * Shock * Stouts Mills * Stumptown * Tanner * Troy Gilmer County Data BIOGRAPHIES BIRTH DEATHS CEMETERIES CENSUS HISTORY MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA OBITUARIES WILLS   Website Updates: Jan 2012: Linn Family Biography; Benjamin Franklin Burwell Biography Nov 2011: County History; Harley Edward Pyles Obituary Sep 2011: Robert George Linn, LL.B. and Judge Reese Blizzard Biographies Jul 2011: John T. Gainer Biography Apr 2011: Kee Family Biography Mar 2011: Raymond Boggs, Rev. Nelson Bartlett, Catherine R. Malona, Virginia Skinner, and Violet Smith obituaries Surrounding Counties Doddridge County (north) Lewis County (east) Braxton County (south) Calhoun County (west)   Ritchie County (northwest) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Back to Genealogy Trails Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.