Welcome to Tucker 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. Tucker County was created in 1856 from a part of Randolph County, then part of Virginia. In 1871, a small part of Barbour County, WV, was transferred to Tucker County. The county was named after Henry St. George Tucker, Sr., a judge and Congressman from Williamsburg, Virginia. Its county seat is Parsons Incorporated Cities and Towns * Town of Davis * Town of Hambleton * Town of Hendricks * City of Parsons * City of Thomas Unincorporated Communities * Auvil * Benbush * Bretz * Canaan Heights * Coketon * Cortland * Douglas * Elk * Gladwin * Hannahsville * Holly Meadows * Hovatter * Jenningston * Laneville * Lead Mine * Location * Mackeyville * Moore * Pierce * Pleasant Run * Pleasant Vale * Porterwood * Red Creek * St. George * Shafer * William Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: Feb 2010: 1883 Pensioners; Chapters 1 and 2 from the History of Tucker County; "A" and "B" Surname biographies 1870 Census Surrounding Counties Preston County (north) Randolph County (south) Grant County (east) Barbour County (west) 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.