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Exciting news from Digital North Carolina! 42 newspapers that live in the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill and were never microfilmed. Here are links to 2 from Henderson county;

• The Henderson Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1863
• The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1896

NC Probate Wills and Estates. That are located on familysearch.org website. This site will have will and probate images by county.    You can search by each North Carolina county.

North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970 • FamilySearch

Below are links to the Volume Title and Year

• Wills, 1838-1882
• Wills, 1841-1846, Vol. 1
• Wills, 1841-1886, Vol. 1
• Wills, 1887-1906, Vol. 2
• Wills, 1906-1915, Vol. 3
• Wills, 1912-1914, Vol. 4
• Wills, 1915-1923, Vol. 5
• Wills Index, 1841-1968, Vol. 1

If you would like your family reunion posted to the site, or if you know of other reunions, please submit dates, time and location and we will post to this site.  Use the contact form.

Noted Henderson Co NC historian Jennie Jones Giles has developed an informative and enjoyable website which is a must for anyone interested in the history of Henderson County.  Jennie was a reporter for the Hendersonville Times News and wrote many articles regarding the history of the county.  One of these was an in-depth study of the cemeteries of Henderson County, both private and church, which is invaluable for all researchers.  She is responsible for bringing awareness of the cemetery conditions and is undoubtedly the reason many were preserved.

Jennie teaches Henderson County history classes at Blue Ridge Community College and conducts field trips to different county communities in conjunction with the classes.  Jennie is an excellent and knowledgable researcher.  Her research has helped clear up several history mistakes with documented fact.

The first semester of the class concentrates on prehistory, native American, Revolutionary War and the geography of the county up to the Civil War.  The second semester picks up with the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, the arrival of rail transportation and telegraph/telephone communication up to present day Henderson County.

The website, http://hendersonheritage.com , includes the following:

History and Heritage – the history of the formation of the county, it’s people, religion, geography and the role of the first settlers in the Revolutionary War,  industry, mining, slavery, tourism and much more.

Historic Cemeteries – A work in progress, this section includes at present Mills River and Mountain Page cemeteries as well the burial sites of Revolutionary War soldiers.  Check back often for new additions

Communities – currently includes Mills River and Mountain Page, more will be added

Unsolved Triple Murder –  In 1966 three people, two of them prominent Hendersonville residents, were viciously murdered.  The crime was never officially solved.  In 2006 Jennie Jones Giles wrote a continuing newspaper articles recounting the crime and follow up investigations.  A fascinating account, anyone connected with Henderson County during that time will find this insightful and thought provoking.

http://hendersonheritage.com

NC State Probate (Wills and Estates). This site will have will and probate images by county.    You can search by each North Carolina county .

North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970 • FamilySearch

I have added a section to the Henderson County home page.  The lower half of the page will be called “Did You Know” and will give research hints.  Today’s hints are “The missing 1000 names of the 1850 Henderson County Census” and “Where did Asheville go” in the 1920 Census.

I have added page 86 – 110 of deed book #1 to the deeds page.  For the present time it will be located at the end of the “Deed Book #1”  page, after the school district deed, and in order by page number, not alphabetically.  In about 2 weeks I will incorporate these new transcriptions into the alphabetical list.  This will allow you to just review the new ones without hunting through those you may have already seen.  This is a slow process but I am determined to abstract all of book #1 eventually.  There are over 300 pages so it might take a while.

We need contributions for this site.  If you have a favorite site and would like to have a link on the Henderson County page please email it to me and I will enter it into the “Resources” page.

The full name index to “Abstract: Henderson County NC Estate Records 1838 – 1900”  is available.  Click “records” then “wills and estates” and then “index…”

Henderson County Coroner’s Inquests have been added to the site.  Records > Coroner’s Inquest

A new Resources page has been added as well as the Civil War Pension file for Jacob Kuykendall