Books may be ordered from William H. Sutherland, PO Box 547, St. Paul, VA 24283 (276 762 0542) (e-mail toybill@naxs.net). If books are delivered in Virginia a 4.5% Sales Tax must be added to the list price-example (VATAX $2.25). Please make checks payable to SUTHERLAND BOOKS.

BOOKS BY THE LATE JUDGE ELIHU JASPER SUTHERLAND: Each a labor of love as he brings alive history and memories ... his own memories as well as those of many early settlers of Southwest Virginia.

(1) MEET VIRGINIA'S BABY - A Pictorial History of Dickenson County - the official document of the 1955 Diamond Jubilee of Virginia's "Baby County." A warm, human interest account in words and pictures of the hardy pioneers and their offspring who hewed out this "Diamond in the Wilderness" from the rough ridges and bottom lands, this handsomely bound 9.6 x 12 inch volume of 320 pages is the family album of Dickenson County. Latest Reprint. $50 plus $6 shipping & handling - total $56. (VATAX $2.25)

(2) PIONEER RECOLLECTIONS - collected by the late Judge Sutherland over more than 50 years, beginning in 1915. Many of the narrators of these recollections were actual participants in, or eye-witnesses of, the events they tell about, or they had talked to persons who were closely connected with some of the events or happenings. The 1995 edition contains 45 added pages making a total of 564 pages, with hard back cover, $55.00 plus $7 shipping & handling-total $62. (VATAX $2.48)

(3) PIONEER RECOLLECTIONS ADDITIONS - 45 pages that were added to the 1995 edition has been printed separately for those who have the first (1984) edition at a cost of $5.50 plus $1.75 shipping & handling-total $7.25.(VATAX$0.25)

(4) SOME SANDY BASIN CHARACTERS - warmly admiring, short biographies of nine of the earliest settlers of the Sandy Basin - bringing alive memories of our great-grandparents from the individualistic Jesse Austin to tragedy-stalked Baron de Tubeuf of Sugar Hill (near St Paul, Wise County) these sketches bring you face to face with some of your own forefathers and introduce you to the rugged life they lived in the primitive fastness of a new raw land. Other characters in this 246 page 5.5 x 8.5 inch hard-back book are: Frank Monroe Beverly (Poet of the Cumberlands) Richard "Fighting Dick" Colley, Elijah Shelby Counts, Winfield Scott Grizzle, Helen Timmons Henderson, Richard D B Sutherland and William Sutherland. Latest reprint. $25 plus $5 shipping & handling-total $30. (VATAX $1.13)

(5) SANDLICK PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH - The First Hundred Years - This

history of the oldest religious assembly in Dickenson County records its organization as an arm of Reeds Valley Church in Russell County on Feb. 25, 1837, with names of members, pastors, clerks and deacons the first 100 years. In his FOREWORD, Judge Sutherland states: "Some of my earliest and happiest memories have to do with going to meeting at Sandlick Baptist Church. As a tiny lad I often went there .... on the fourth Saturday or Sunday in the month. I rode the seven long miles perched on a sheepskin cushion behind my father or mother on "Old Suz," the family mule. Later, as I grew older, I frequently walked the distance .." Latest reprint, this 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 48 page, soft covered booklet sells for $5.00 plus $1.75 shipping & handling - total $6.75. (VATAX $0.22)

(6) SOME DESCENDANTS OF JOHN COUNTS OF GLADE HOLLOW (Southwest Virginia) VOLUME 1 - 1722-1977 Researched by Judge E J Sutherland. Originally published in 1978, the 420 page 6.5 x 9 inch hardback volume includes the families of Artrip, Carter, Colley, Counts, Deel, Dyer, Edwards, Grizzel (Grizzle), Jessee, Keyser (Kiser), Long, Mattocks (Mattox), Owens, Rasnake (Rasnick), Skeen, Smith, Stinson, Sutherland, Willard, Yates and many others. Price $45 plus $6 shipping & handling-total $51. ( VATAX $2.03)

(7) SOME DESCENDANTS OF JOHN COUNTS OF GLADE HOLLOW (Southwest Virginia) VOLUME 2 -- 1722-2003 (Supplement) Published in 2003 the 850 page, 8 ½ x 11 inch hardback. with 173 photos, supplements Volume 1 (Item 6) following the format of the Volume 1; but includes only persons in Volume 1 on which new information is available and as much of Volume 1 as is needed for continuity in parentage. Includes the families of Addington, Adkins, Amburgey, Anderson, Arrington, Artrip, Baker, Ball, Barton, Belcher, Blankenship, Boggs, Bowman, Branham, Breeding, Brown, Carter, Childress, Colley, Combs, Compton, Crabtree, Damron, Davis, Deel, Dickenson, Dotson, Duty, Dye, Edwards, Evans, Fields, Fleming, French, Fuller, Garrett, Gibson, Gilliam, Grizzel(l), Hale, Hall, Hammons, Hay(es), Henderson, Henry, Hibbitts, Horn(e), Hughes, Jessee, Johnson, Jones, Keel, Kins(z)er, Kiser, La Force, Lambert, Lee, Lewis, Long, Lyon(s), McCowan, McCoy, Martin, Meade, Miller, Minton, Moore, Mullins, Musick, Newberry, Oquinn, Osborne(e) Owens, Phillips, Powers, Pressley, Puckett, Quesinberry, Ramey, Rasnake (Rasnick), Rice, Riddle, Robinson, Roe, Rose, Salyers, Scott, Sexton, Silcox, Skeen(s), Smith, Stanley, Steph(v)ens, Street, Sutherland, Swindall, Sykes, Taylor, Tiller, Turner, Vest, Viers, Wagner, Wallace, White, Williams, Willis, Wilson, Wood, Wright, & Yates. Price $60 plus $8 shippimg & handling - total $68 (VATAX $2.70).

(8) SWINDALL AND AUSTIN FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA 1622-1995. Published in 1995, the 416 page, 8 1/2 X 11 hard-covered volume has over 200 photos and includes the related families of Abdon, Addington, Alexander, Allen, Bently, Beverly, Bolling, Bullock, Brown, Calloway, Childress, Clore, Craft, Corporon, Countiss, Curtwright, Davis, Dotson, Elliott, Elsbery, Enochs, Fleming, Fletcher, Graham, Grizzle, Hamilton, Hash, Hayden, Heaberlin, Hibbitts, Hillman, Holohan, Hopkins, Hubbard, Hughes, Johnson, Keene, Killen, Landreth, Leavene, McFall, Martin, Mathews, Maxey, Mullins, Noel, Phipps, Potter, Powers, Rector, Renfro, Rife, Rose, Rouse, Shortt, Smith, Stallard, Stephens, Tipps, Vance, Vanover, Watkins, Whitt, Yeager and many others. $45.00 plus $6 shipping & handling - total $51. (VATAX $2.03)