Welcome to Monroe County WV History and Genealogy Presented by West Virginia Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails 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. Monroe County was created from Greenbrier County in 1799 and named for James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. Its county seat is Union. Monroe is the home county of Andrew S. Rowan, of Spanish-American War fame, who is immortalized in Elbert Hubbard's classic A Message to Garcia. The county was also the site of the 1928 discovery of the 34.48 carat (6.896 g) Jones Diamond by Grover C. Jones and his son, William "Punch" Jones. Also, the county does not contain a four lane highway or a stoplight. Cities and Towns Incorporated towns & cities * Alderson (partly) * Peterstown * Union Unincorporated communities * Ballard * Ballengee * Bozoo * Cashmere * Cloverdale * Crimson Springs * Elmhurst * Gap Mills * Gates * Glace * Greenville * Hillsdale * Hollywood * Keenan * Knobs * Laurel Branch * Lillydale * Lindside * Monitor * Pickaway * Raines Corner * Red Sulphur Springs * Rock Camp * Salt Sulphur Springs * Secondcreek * Sinks Grove * Sweet Springs * Waiteville * Wayside * Wikel * Wolfcreek * Zenith MONROE COUNTY ONLINE DATA BIOGRAPHIES BIRTHS CEMETERIES CENSUS CHURCH HISTORY and RECORDS DEATH RECORDS HISTORY MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA  OBITUARIES  WILLS and PROBATES Website Updates: Jan 2012: Allen Taylor Caperton Biography; Hugh Caperton Biography; Judge Mathew Dunbar Biography Dec 2011: John Mann Biography; Massie Family Biography; James Gaston Dunsmore Biography Nov 2011: County History Sep 2011: Robert Garlick Hill Kean Biography Jun 2011: First County Court House Mar 2011: Militia System and Officers; Biographies from "History of Monroe County", by Oren Frederick, 1916 Feb 2011: History of Old Rehoboth Church Jan 2011: 1854 marriages Surrounding Counties Greenbrier County (north) Giles County, Virginia (south) Alleghany County, Virginia (northeast) Mercer County (southwest) Craig County, Virginia (east) Summers County (west) Back to the WV State Page Visit our Genealogy Trails National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.