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 BIRTHS DEATHS MARRIAGES CENSUS BIOGRAPHIES HISTORY OBITUARIES NEWSPAPER DATA MILITARY DATA WILLS  CEMETERIES   Website Updates: Jan 2010: 1840 Census of Pensioners Feb 2009: Crime News story from 1903; Death Announcements for NICKELL, LONG, ELLIS Jan 2009: JOHNSON death announcement from Illinois SPARR biography; BOWDEN death records; SKAGGS births; RIDOUT, PETER obits 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.