Russell County (Va.) Smallpox Epidemic Records, 1904-1905

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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POC: Archives Reference Services
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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Russell County (Va.) Smallpox Epidemic Records, 1904-1905. Local government records collection, Russell County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Summary

Creator:
Russell County (Va.) Circuit Court.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Russell County (Va.) Smallpox Epidemic Records, 1904-1905. Local government records collection, Russell County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

Russell County (Va.) Smallpox Epidemic Records, 1904-1905, consists of three items in which the justice of the peace for Russell County ordered two doctors, R.C. Meade and L.F. Banner, to go to certain locations in Russell County to determine whether people there were infected with smallpox and thus required to be quarantined. Locations included: the house of John Ewens (African American) at Castlewood, Virginia, Fullar Bro. Store on Lick Creek, and various other households in Dante, Virginia: Dave Salyers, Nathan Blevins, Henry Cook, Sarah Counts, Tom Castle, Lee Jordon, John Salyers.

Biographical / historical:

Russell County was named for William Russell, a Clinch Valley pioneer and the member of the House of Delegates who introduced the legislation forming the county from Washington County in 1786.

On March 7, 1900, the General Assembly voted to amend legislation providing for the appointment of a state board of health and local boards of health to allow a local board of supervisors chair, with the approval of two members of a local board of health, to make certain contracts for the removal and quarantine of parties suspected of smallpox , or for compulsory vaccination.

Acquisition information:
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from Russell County.
Physical location:
Library of Virginia
Physical description:
0.225 cu. ft. (1 folder in one 1/2 hollinger)