POCAHONTAS COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERKS
Served from:
JOHN BAXTER | April 2, 1822-June 7, 1830 |
HENRY M. MOFFETT | May 23, 1831-October 2, 1839 |
JAMES TALLMAN | October 2, 1839-March 3, 1842 |
WILLIAM SKEEN | March 3, 1842-May 2, 1842 |
HENRY M. MOFFETT | May 2, 1842-May 2, 1848 |
WILLIAM SKEEN | May 2, 1848-July 13, 1858 |
WILLIAM CURRY | July 13, 1858-August 17, 1865 |
ROBERT T. GAY | August 17, 1865-October 14, 1872 |
WILLIAM CURRY | October 14, 1872-December 12, 1878 |
JOHN J. BEARD | December 12, 1878-January 1, 1891 |
J. H. PATTERSON | January 1, 1891-October 4, 1907 |
J. G. TILTON | October 15, 1907-December 31, 1908 |
G. W. SHARP | January 1, 1909-December 31, 1920 |
D. C. ADKISON | January 1, 1921-December 31, 1933 |
KERTH NOTTINGHAM | January 1, 1933-October 5, 1937 |
RICHARD McNEEL | October 5, 1937-December 31, 1938 |
GRADY K. MOORE | January 1, 1939-June 12, 1942 |
J. E. HAMRICK | March 1, 1943-November 14, 1945 |
GRADY K. MOORE | November 14, 1945-November 9, 1960 |
FRED C. ALLEN, JR. | December 1, 1960-September 14, 1961 |
LLOYD D. PAYNE | September 15, 1961-May 15, 1970 |
HOUSTON E. SIMMONS | May 16, 1970-August 31, 1979 |
EARL “BUTCH” MICHAEL | September 1, 1979-December 31, 2010 |
CONNIE M. CARR | January 1, 2011-Current |
POCAHONTAS COUNTY CIRCUIT JUDGES
Served from:
ARCHIBALD STEWART | August 28, 1822-May 23, 1831 |
ALLEN TAYLOR | May 23, 1831-October 3, 1836 |
EDWIN S. DUNCAN | May 2, 1832-October 2, 1832 |
JOHN J. ALLEN | October 3, 1836-May 3, 1841 |
EDWARD JOHNSTON | May 3, 1841-September 23, 1853 |
ROBERT M. HUDSON | September 23, 1853-August 17, 1865 |
NATHANIEL HARRISON | August 17, 1865-April 1, 1870 |
JOSEPH M. McWHORTER | April 1, 1870-May 1, 1873 |
HENRY S. GILLISPIE | June 8, 1871-March 8, 1872 |
HOMER A. HOLT | May 1, 1873-April 1, 1889 |
A. N. CAMPBELL | April 1, 1889-April 6, 1897 |
F. A. GUTHRIE | October 27, 1889-October 17, 1893 |
W. G. BENNETT | June 21, 1892-October 18, 1892 |
JOSEPH M. McWHORTER | April 6, 1897-April 2, 1901 |
W. R. BENNETT | January 9, 1905-October 3, 1907 |
S. C. BURDETT | June 20, 1905-October 10, 1905 |
CHARLES S. DICE | April 14, 1911-March 17, 1917 |
R. W. DAILEY | July 25, 1916-September 25, 1916 |
S. H. SHARP | March 17, 1917-February 23, 1937 |
M. L. JARRETT | February 23, 1937-July 1, 1949 |
NICKELL KRAMER | July 1, 1949-December 31, 1976 |
CHARLES M. LOBBAN | January 1, 1977-December 31, 1996 |
Senior Status,January 1, 1997-May 23, 2011 | |
FRANK E. JOLLIFFE | July 1, 1979-October 31, 2006 |
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Senior Status-November 1, 2006-Current |
JAMES J. ROWE |
January 1, 1997-Current |
J. C. POMPONIO, JR. | February 26, 2007-June 30, 2014 |
SENIOR STATUS |
July 1, 2014-Current |
ROBERT E. RICHARDSON |
July 1, 2014-Current |
COURT RECORDS-CIVIL WAR TIME
At the time of the breaking out of the war, the Hon. William Curry was serving as both circuit and county clerk, and when it became evident that the Federals would invade the county, the court ordered Mr. Curry to remove the records to a place of safety. In compliance with this order, he caused them to be taken to the private residence of Joel Hill, Esq., on the Little Levels. Here they remained until January, 1862, when Mr. Curry became alarmed as to the safety of so valuable a charge thus placed in his custody, and he therefore caused them to be removed to Covington, Virginia, where for a short time they lay in the Clerk’s office of Alleghany County. From here they were taken to the storehouse of Captain William Scott. In September, 1863, General Averill’s command reached Covington, and Mr. Curry again removed the records, first to the residence of William Clark, and then to a stack of buckwheat straw, in which they lay concealed for three weeks, and were then conveyed into the mountains and stored away at the house of a Baptist minister, and here they remained until after the surrender at Appomattox. The storm of war had now passed away, and Mr. Curry, in June, 1865, when the first court after the close of the war convened (November, 1865), in the Methodist Church at Hillsboro. From that time they were kept in the old academy building until June, 1866, when they were taken back to the county seat and deposited at the house of John B. Garey. More than five years have passed away since their first removal, and strange to say, that notwithstanding all the vicissitudes of war through which they passed, but one thing was lost, and that was an old process book of no value. Was not Mr. Curry true to his trust? Let those interested in the records of Pocahontas answer.
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Pocahontas Co. In The Civil War by Hardesty