HOW TO ORDER BOOKS:

Send check or money order (no credit card sales) to Kegley Books,

P.O. Box 134, Wytheville, VA 24382. Prices include shipping and

Virginia sales tax where applicable. Libraries may be invoiced by

providing a Purchase Order number. 

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NEW BOOK, August 2016

KEGLEY BOOKS, P.O. BOX 134, WYTHEVILLE, VA  24382

Now available from Kegley books: Revolutionary War Patriots of Wythe County, Virginia, and Their Local Burial Places, by Mary B. Kegley. This booklet has an alphabetical listing of 53 patriots buried in the county and 27 illustrations, including tombstones and other pictures related to the patriots. Each one has a short sketch. Color cover, and end notes and a bibliography of publications used are included.

Order from Kegley Books with a check or money order payable to Kegley Books and mailed to the above address.  The book will be shipped media mail upon receipt of the order. Libraries and historical and genealogy organizations may be invoiced with an order number.

IN STATE: $19.30  (includes tax and shipping); OUT OF STATE: $18.50 (includes shipping).

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 OTHER NEWER BOOKS:

THE SALTVILLE ENTREPRENEURS AND THEIR ENDLESS LITIGATION  by Mary B. Kegley and William T. Buchanan, Jr. The manufacture of salt at the Virginia Saltworks in Smyth and Washington counties is documented from the 1790s through 1874 primarily from three Supreme Court cases and more than forty lawsuits found in Wythe County, Virginia. The story is told through the eyes of the owners and their families, lessees, managers, and employees. Early entrepreneurs had mercantile establishments from Fincastle, Virginia, to New Orleans, with many along the Tennessee River between Kingsport and Huntsville, Alabama. 86 pages plus index, and 36 illustrations. William King and James White of Abingdon are major characters. Prestons, Gardners, McCalls, and Sanders are also mentioned. Processes  to test salinity, to manufacture salt, to ship to far away destinations are all mentioned. IN Virginia: includes shipping and tax $25.50; out of state including shipping $24.50. Checks or money orders, but no credit cards. Libraries may be billed by providing a purchase number.

Mail to: Kegley Books, P.O. Box 134, Wytheville, VA 24382.

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Order from Kegley Books, P.O. Box 134, Wytheville, VA, 24382.

Abstracts of Court Orders of Wythe County, 1860-1865, compiled by Janie Z. Dillon and Mary B. Kegley, 188 pages with extensive index, soft bound. This volume contains information abstracted from the order books giving the story of what was happening at home during the Civil War. Eighty deceased soldiers were documented; slaves, slave owners, free people of "colour" and Gentlemen Justices are all mentioned. Wills, guardianships, settlements of estates, applications for wine sellers, ministers and lawyers to practice in the county, and provisions for those who were sick with smallpox are all documented. 

IN VIRGINIA: includes shipping and tax $30.83; OUT OF STATE: includes shipping, $29.50. Libraries may be billed by providing a purchase number.

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(1) SISTERS' SAGA: CORRESPONDENCE OF THE McKEE SISTERS OF

WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND BEAVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 1836-1883.

Compiled and annotated by Mary B. Kegley and Nan Oliver with 200 letters written from Wytheville by the sisters to their sister in Beaver, Pennsylvania. The book has more than 120 photographs. Published 2013 is still available. What did rich women do? The answers are here! They loved to travel, they were loyal to their church and their family and promoted education. They were well acquainted with the leaders of Wythe County and wrote of them often.

In State includes tax and shipping, $33.98; out of state $32.50 includes shipping.

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Abstracts of Wythe County Will Books 7 and 8 (1848-1855) compiled

by Janie Dillon and Mary B. Kegley, 2013. Still available.

IN VIRGINIA: $25.56; OUT OF STATE: $24.50 prices include shipping and

tax where applicable. 

  ORDER FROM KEGLEY BOOKS, P.O. BOX 134, WYTHEVILLE, VA 24382 with

a check or money order.

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About Kegley Books

About the author, Mary B. Kegley