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| Haywood Co. Public Library 402 S. Haywood St. Waynesville, NC 28786-4350 PH: 704- 452 - 5169 Hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9am to 9pm, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9am to 6pm. Saturdays from 9am to 5pm and Sundays from 1:30 to 5pm. The library has a North Carolina room which contains many local family histories, assorted books on Haywood County and on surrounding counties, a clipping file, and loose papers file, as well as Haywood county census records, marriage records, deeds, and court records on microfilm. They also have the Latter Day Saints Family Search available on CD-Rom. |
| Lookups ~~ If you can do Haywood Co. lookups, please contact Doyle Chambers, County Coordinator, and let him know. |
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| Heritage Books **A heritage book is a collection of family histories written and submitted by individuals. They are always entertaining and seldom accurate. 1. Haywood County Heritage Book Published by the Haywood County Genealogical Society 2. The Annals of Haywood County by W.C. Allen Published in 1935. Now in reprint. A very good read, but the data is woefully inaccurate. Local Genealogist 1. In The Name of Howell by James Howell Highly recommended, written by a dedicated genealogist Census Books 1. Haywood County 1810 Census transcribed by Betsy C. Farlow 2. Haywood County 1820 Census transcribed by Betsy C. Farlow 3. Haywood County 1850 Census transcribed by Census Associates 4. Haywood County 1860 Census transcribed by Brenda Bishop Books by S.K. Publications S.K. Publications 1. Haywood County, NC 1810 Census--photocopy of the original census pages. 2. Haywood County, NC 1820 Census--photocopy of the original census pages. 3. Haywood County, NC 1830 Census--photocopy of the original census pages. 4. Haywood County, NC 1840 Census--photocopy of the original census pages. 5. Haywood County, NC 1850 Census--photocopy of the original census pages. Family History Books by Marshall L. Styles of Simpsonville, SC ***Highly Recommended*** Published by Higginson Books Higginson Books 1. My North Carolina Heritage Volume 1 by Marshall L. Styles 1996 Descendants of Benjamin and John Stiles Lincoln, Buncombe, and Yancey Counties 399 pages 2. My North Carolina Heritage Volume 2 by Marshall L. Styles 2002 Rollins, Ealy, Morgan, and Smelser Families Brunswick County, Va., Randolph, Madison, and Buncombe Counties, NC, Greene and Cocke Counties, Tenn. 410 pages 3. My North Carolina Heritage Volume 3 by Marshall L. Styles 2002 Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb A Quaker Family Legacy North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas 525 pages 4. My North Carolina Heritage Volume 4 by Marshall L. Styles 1996 Descendants of Zebedee William Morris A Confederate Veteran Montgomery, Madison, and Buncombe Counties 385 pages 5. My North Carolina Heritage Volume 5 by Marshall L. Styles 1995 Colonel Ambrose Mills A Soldier in the King's Army During the American Revolution Pasquotank, Chowan, Henderson, Buncombe, and Yancey Counties 221 pages 6. My North Carolina Heritage Volume 6 by Marshall L. Styles 1997 Descendants of Robert Edney and Anna Wrensher Pasquotank, Chowan, Henderson, Buncombe, and Yancey Counties 537 pages 7. Turner and Banks by Marshall L. Styles Pioneer Families of Western North Carolina Caswell, Person, Buncombe, Haywood, and Madison Counties 571 pages 8. The Mitchell Families of Haywood County, NC by Marshall L. Styles 2002 134 pages 9. Sorrells Family by Marshall L. Styles 2002 Pioneers of Old Buncombe County, North Carolina Buncombe and Haywood Counties 265 pages All of the books by Marshall L. Styles are available direct from Higginson Book Company Salem, MA. by special order. These books are often available at Barnes and Noble online bookstore by requesting an author search for Marshall Styles or (Marshall Stiles.) Books by Robert J. Medford ["based on" are the operative words for the Medford census books] 1. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840 Census by Robert J. Medford 2. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1850 Census by Robert J. Medford 1994 3. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1860 Census by Robert J. Medford 1994 4. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1870 Census by Robert J. Medford 1995 5. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1880 Census by Robert J. Medford 1995 6. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1900 Census by Robert J. Medford 7. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1910 Census by Robert J. Medford 8. The Families of Haywood County based on the 1920 Census by Robert J. Medford County Record Books 1. Permanent Roll of Registered Voters--Haywood County 1902 by Charles D. Biddix Published by Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society 2. 1835 Poll Books--NC 12th Congressional District for the counties of Burke, Haywood, Yancey, Macon, Rutherford, and Buncombe by Charles D. Biddix Published by Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society 3. Haywood County, NC Divorce Index 1829-1944 by Carol Allen Carol Allen 4. Haywood County NC Estate Papers Index 1809-1942 by Carol Allen Carol Allen by Carol Allen 5. Haywood County, NC Guardians' Records Index 1877-1921 by Carol Allen Carol Allen 6. Haywood County, NC Wills Index 1877-1921 by Carol Allen Carol Allen 7. Early Marriage Bonds of Haywood County 1808-1870 by James E. Wooley Published 1974 8. Cemeteries and Family Graveyards in Haywood County by George E. Miller, Sr. Published 1979 **A complete index of names in "Cemeteries and Graveyards of Haywood County" has been compiled by Mr. James Campbell and his sister. This index is available at the Haywood County, NC Public Library and the Greenville County, SC Public Library (Main Branch--downtown.)** 9. Haywood County Deaths and Burials 1986-1995 Published by Haywood County Genealogical Society, Inc. 10.Directions to the Cemeteries of Haywood County Published by the Haywood County Genealogical Society, Inc. 2001 Haywood County History Books 1. The Early History of Haywood County by W. Clark Medford 1961 2. The Middle History of Haywood County by W. Clark Medford 1968 3. Haywood's Heritage and Finest Hour by W. Clark Medford 1971 4. At Home in the Smokies--Handbook 125 Produced by the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior 1984 5. Heritage of Healing- A Medical History of Haywood County by Nina L. Anderson and William L. Anderson 6. Maggie of Maggie Valley by Patty Pylant Kosier 7. Mountain Fever by Tom Alexander 8. Horse Drawn Equipment and Early Tools by Louise K. Nelson 9. A Pictorial History of Haywood County by The Asheville-Citizen Times 10. Historic Waynesville by Louise K. Nelson 11. Purchase Knob Kathryn K. McNeil 12. Civil War Letters from the Great Smoky Mountains by Hattie Caldwell Davis 13. Vanished Settlements of the Great Smoky Mountains by Hattie Caldwell Davis 14. Strangers in High Places The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains by Micheal Frome 15. Mountain People, Mountain Times by W. Clark Medford 16. Great Smoky Mountain Stories and Sun Over Ol' Starlin' by W. Clark Medford 17. Land O' the Sky by W. Clark Medford 18. Finis and Farewell by W. Clark Medford 19. The Long, Hard Road by W. Clark Medford 20. The Musings of a Mountaineer by Felix Alley 21. Country Folklore by Louise K. Nelson 22. The Aroma's of Grandma's and Mama's Kitchen by Louise K. Nelson 23. The Warring Joshua of Jonathan's Creek by Harden Howell, Sr. and Frank Smathers, Sr. Haywood County Family Books 1. The Messer Registry: The Descendants of David Messer by Brenda Messer Brenda Messer 2. The Genealogical Study of James Brittain by Shirley B. Cawyer 1988 3. The Green Family Descendants of George Washington Green, Sr. and Nancy Gasperson Green by Bryan K. Aldridge Information on Green and Green descendants in Haywood County 453 pages, full name index, approx. 200 photos Bryan K. Aldridge 4. Those Medfords From Allen's Creek by Robert J. Medford 1991 5. Those Medfords From Medford Farm and Iron Duff by Robert J. Medford 6. Those Medfords From Canton and Clyde by Robert J. Medford 7. The Sutton Family of Haywood County by Robert J. Medford 8. Haywood County Families by Alice R. Cook 1993 Published by Heritage Books, Inc. 9. Reminisce With Myrtle by Myrtle Brendle Little 10. Recollections--Along the Way by Myrtle Brendle Little 11. The Biography of R.A. Sentelle by W. Clark Medford Cherokee Indians 1. Storm in the Mountains by Vernon H. Crow 1982 Published by Press of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian WNC History Books 1. Another Country Journeying Towards the Cherokee Mountains by Christopher Camuto 2. Bryson City Tales by Walt Larimore M.D. 3. On the Spine of Time by Harry Middleton 4. It Happened in the Smokies by Gladys Trentham Russell 5. Hazel Creek--From Then til Now by Duane Oliver 6. Serpent Handling Believers by Thomas Burton 7. A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge by Christopher Camuto 8. Western North Carolina-it's Mountains and it's People to 1880 by Ora Blackmun 9. The Land of Saddlebags by James Watt Raine 10. Fun is Where you Find it by Bob Terrell 11. Whose Woods These Are by Micheal Frome 12. These Storied Mountains by John Parris 13. Mountain Bred by John Parris 14. My Mountains, My People by John Parris 15. Roaming the Mountains by John Parris 16. The Cherokee Story by John Parris 17. The Earth is Enough Growing Up in a World of Fly-fishing, Trout, and Old Men by Harry Middleton 18. The Starlight Creek Angling Society by Harry Middleton 19. Rivers of Memory by Harry Middleton 20. The Bright Country A Fisherman's Return to trout, Wild Waters, and Himself by Harry Middleton Confederate History 1. The Heart of Confederate Appalachia by John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney 2. Across a Dark River by Clyde Ray 3. The Life of Johnny Reb by Bell Irvin Wiley 4. Civil War Letters from the Great Smoky Mountains by Hattie Caldwell Davis 5. Mountains Touched With Fire by Wiley Sword 6. Western North Carolina Since the Civil War Ira W. Van Noppen and John J. Van Noppen 7. Bushwhackers--The Civil War in the North Carolina Mountains by William K. Trotter Neighboring County Books 1. Buncombe County, North Carolina Index to Deeds 1783-1850 by James E. Wooley 2. Old Buncombe County Heritage Book, Volume 1 by Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society 1981 Published by Hunter Publishing Co. 3. 2. Old Buncombe County Heritage Book, Volume 2 by Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society 1981 Published by Hunter Publishing Co. 4. The Kingdom of Madison by Manly Wade Wellman 5. A Country Doctor in the South Mountains by Benjamin Earle Washburn 6. A Piece of the Fox's Hide A History of the Notorious Bigham Family by Kathryn Boling 7. Buried Treasures of the Appalachians by W.C. Jameson 8. The High-Pitched Laugh of a Painted Lady by Lewis W. Green 9. Yesterday in the Hills by Floyd C. Watkins and Charles Hubert Watkins 10. A Wayfaring Sin-eater by James Gay Jones 11. Dead and Gone by Manly Wade Wellman 12. Spirit of the Mountains by Emma Bell Miles 13. Mountain Lines Wit, Wisdom, and History from the North Georgia Mountains by Larry Fricks and Steve Whitmire 14. Mountains Spirits by Joseph Earl Dabney 15. More Mountain Spirits by Joseph Earl Dabney 16. The Foxfire Books by Elliot Wiggenton and his Students 17. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison 18. In the Shadow of Old Smoky by C. Hodge Mathes 19. Roan Mountain--A Passage of Time by Jennifer Bauer Wilson 20. Dam Break in Georgia by K. Neill Foster and Eric Mills 21. Cabins in the Laurel by Muriel Earley Sheppard 22. Miracle in the Hills by Mary T. Martin Sloop and Leggette Blythe 23. My Home is in the Smoky Mountains by Herbert L. Hyde 24. Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart 25. Silver in the Unaka by Buddy Johnson 26. Mountain People, Places, and Ways by Micheal and Ruth Joslin General Interest Books 1. Up Ego! by John Foster West 2. Time Was by John Foster West 3. The Ballad of Tom Dula by John Foster West 4. Lift up Your Head, Tom Dooley by John Foster West 5. Appalachian Dawn by John Foster West 6. This Proud Land by John Foster West 7. Wry Wine by John Foster West 8. The Summer People by John Foster West 9. Gap Creek by Robert Morgan 10. The Blue Valley by Robert Morgan 11. The Hinterlands by Robert Morgan 12. The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan 13. The Mountains Won't Remember Us by Robert Morgan 14. Just Folks by Jerry Bledsoe 15. Patchwork by Ila Yount 16. Branch Water Tales by Bill Carver 17. Some More Branch Water Tales Country Poor, Mountain Proud by Bill Carver 18. Mountain Ghost Stories by Randy Russell and Janet Barnett 19. A Treasury of Carolina Tales by Webb Garrison 20. North Carolina Legends by Richard Walser 21. Snowbird Gravy and Dishpan Pie by Patsy Moore Ginns 22. Curing the Cross-eyed Mule by Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler 23. Gun Racks and Six Packs by Bo Whaley 24. Jonathan Creek A Cherokee Valley Saga by Carlton Weber |
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