News stories pertaining to African-Americans in Russell County

Richmond Enquirer, December 6, 1842 - Fugitive slave Bill
Pittston Gazette, December 27, 1850 - Fugitive slave Henry Long
The Times Picayune, January 6, 1851 - Fugitive slave Henry Long
Unknown paper ("southwestern virginia") February 15, 1851 - Slave sale
Unknown paper ("southwestern virginia") November 10, 1855 - Slave sale
Richmond Whig, August 1, 1856 - Runaway slave from Alabama captured in Lebanon
Nashville Union and American, December 24, 1859 - Abolitionist Fred Smith tarred and feathered
Tri-Weekly Commonwealth (Frankfort, KY), March 23, 1864 - Runaway slave
Abingdon Virginian, April 22, 1864 - Runaway slave
Abingdon Virginian, March 18, 1864 - Small pox in New Garden
Abingdon Virginian, December 9, 1864 - Slave hiring auction
The Cincinnati Daily Gazette, February 2, 1869 - Josiah Hayies looking for his brother Charles Horgis
The Roanoke Times, July 10, 1890 - Race war in Lebanon
Clinch Valley News, January 19, 1894 - Winnie Dorton is 115 years old
Lebanon News, January 23, 1903 - Uncle Jack Carroll died
Lebanon News, October 2, 1903 - Aunt Cynthia Hendricks died
Clinch Valley News, Jeffersonville, VA, December 11, 1903 - Jessee Jones died
Lebanon News, January 25, 1907 - Martha Kent and Bill Fugate died
Journal Gazette, Mattoon, Illinois, August 8, 1908 - long biography of George H. Jessee, born in Russell County in 1860.
Lebanon News, March 6, 1908 - Aunt Jose Jessee dies
Lebanon News, July 30, 1909 - John Robinson dies
Lebanon News, August 6, 1909 - John Robinson obituary
Lebanon News, December 16, 1910 - Aunt Kitt Williams dies
Lebanon News, March 3, 1911 - Mary Hicks dies
St. John (KS) Weekly News, January 18, 1912 - obituary of Thompson Bowen
Lebanon News, January 19, 1912 - "Colored Folk" section of newspaper
Lebanon News, March 15, 1912 - Aunt Nancy MacFarland died
Lebanon News, May 3, 1912 - Uncle Rob Williams visits daughter
Lebanon News, April 18, 1913 - Charles Hendricks dies
Lebanon News, August 8, 1913 - Aunt Mourning Carroll sick
Clinch Valley News, Jeffersonville, VA, August 8, 1913 - Charlotte Heath died
Lebanon News, September 19, 1913 - Aunt Sallie Carroll died
Lebanon News, November 21, 1913 - Colored school in Lebanon opened
Lebanon News, November 28, 1913 - Services at A. M. E. Zion Church
Lebanon News, July 3, 1914 - Hubbard Aston dies
Lebanon News, August 6, 1915 - John Hargis dies
Lebanon News, April 28, 1916 - "Pertains to Colored Folks"
Lebanon News, June 16, 1916 - Neal Smith died in Kansas
Atchison Daily Globe, December 17, 1917 - Matilda Allen dies
Lebanon News, June 14, 1918 - Mike Dickenson dies
Lebanon News, Nobember 22, 1918 - "With Our Colored Folk"
Lebanon News, November 29, 1918 - "Pertains to Colored Folk"
Lebanon News, January 10, 1919 - Roy Hendricks dies in War
Lebanon News, January 10, 1919 - "Pertains to Colored Folk"
Lebanon News, October 10, 1919 - Aunt Kib Ross dies
Lebanon News, November 28, 1919 - Aunt Mariah Ferguson dies
Lebanon News, November 12, 1920 - "About Colored People"
Lebanon News, May 6, 1921 - Fanny Hendricks dies
Lebanon News, June 6, 1924 - Andy Hendricks dies
Lebanon News, May 8, 1931 - "Aunt Alice Day" dies
Lebanon News, July 14, 1933 - "Uncle Floyd Martin" dies
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, April 17, 1934 - "Aunt" Sarah Trigg dies
Lebanon News, August 26, 1938 - Court news from 1778 and 1812 in Russell County, slave names and descriptions
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, January 27, 1939 - John W. Froe dies
Lebanon News, January 19, 1940 - Samuel Patton Bundy dies