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Clerk Dead and No Successor

11/13/2013

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From The Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 25, 1905
In June 1905 with the death of Nathaniel F. Young, Isle of Wight County was in a unique position in that, until another clerk was appointed, there was no other person in the county qualified to issue marriage licences or perform any other official act for which a court's clerk is chosen. It was one week before Albert Sidney Johnson, a captain of state militia, was hired to fill the void.


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Bill
11/26/2013 10:33:52 am

I think N.F.Young was the clerk in 1905 not N.P. Young Thank you for helping save history

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