Orange County Indexed
The Venable surname
The Venable name in Orange County Indexed: 4 historical records, 8 people in the chronology and 4 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1844 to 1884
most named in the 1860s
- Deeds 1844–1869
- Marriages 1884
- In the chronology
- 1847 to 1943 8 people in 73 entries, most in the 1900s
- In books and archives
- 4 people, born 1758 to 1856
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Flat River (2), Sally Walker Mill (2), Haw River (1)
- Married into
- Manning 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Hargrove 2
- People with a page here
- Abraham Bedford Venable, Charles S. (Charles Scott) Venable, Francis Preston Venable, Sallie Manning Venable
- Search beyond these records
- Venable in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Venable there)
- Venable in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 8 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
- Venable, A. W. 1 entry, 1861
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Venable, Abraham W. 4 entries, 1847–1853
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- August 5, 1847: Orange votes for John Kerr, but Abraham W. Venable carries the congressional district
- August 2, 1849: Henry K. Nash carries Orange but loses the congressional race to Venable
- August 7, 1851: Orange gives Calvin Graves a narrow majority, but Abraham W. Venable keeps the district seat in Congress
- August 4, 1853: Orange votes for Whig Sion H. Rogers, who takes the congressional district from Venable
- Venable, Charles S. 1 entry, 1943
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Venable, Francis P. 5 entries, 1911–1943
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- March 3, 1911: Venable is incorporated
- June 2, 1913: UNC's Confederate Monument is dedicated
- February 1, 1926: Jenny Johnson, born in slavery, dies in Chapel Hill
- October 28, 1934: Botanist William C. Coker marries Louise Venable
- by January 29, 1943: University Library exhibits the Venable collection of Confederate orders and letters
- Venable, Mrs. Francis P. 1 entry, 1943
- Venable, Francis Preston 61 entries, 1854–1934
- Venable, Joseph 1 entry, 1857
- Venable, Louise 1 entry, 1923
In books and archives 4 headings
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
In the historical records 4 records
3 deeds and 1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Venable marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
