Literacy, Southwest Virginia, Northwest North Carolina and Northeast Tennessee - 1850
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January 6, 2013
New River Notes, a leading genealogy resource for the New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia, launched its new look website today.
New River Notes was originally launched in 1998 by Jeffery C. Weaver providing New River Valley researchers with a new wealth of information and that tradition is continued today by the Grayson County, Virginia Heritage Foundation, Inc.
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Literacy, Southwest Virginia, Northwest North Carolina and Northeast Tennessee - 1850
| County | Free Population |
Cannot Read and Write Whites |
Cannot Read and Write Free Blacks |
Total Illiterate | Percent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | ||||
| Virginia | |||||||||
| Carroll | 5755 | 313 | 639 | 952 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 958 | 33.3% |
| Grayson | 6178 | 59 | 72 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 04.2% |
| Lee | 9480 | 583 | 1175 | 1758 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 1773 | 37.2% |
| Montgomery | 6888 | 199 | 237 | 436 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 450 | 13.1% |
| Pulaski | 3647 | 179 | 313 | 492 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 503 | 23.9% |
| Scott | 9356 | 330 | 530 | 860 | - | - | - | 860 | 17.6% |
| Smyth | 7098 | 186 | 276 | 462 | 20 | 27 | 47 | 509 | 14.3% |
| Tazewell | 8882 | 566 | 940 | 1506 | - | - | - | 1506 | 33.9% |
| Washington | 12481 | 166 | 227 | 393 | - | - | - | 393 | 06.3% |
| Wythe | 9839 | 588 | 1085 | 1673 | 27 | 27 | 54 | 1727 | 35.1% |
| State Wide | 949133 | 30244 | 46761 | 77005 | 5141 | 6374 | 11515 | 88520 | 18.7% |
| North Carolina | |||||||||
| Ashe | 8182 | 219 | 398 | 617 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 629 | 15.4% |
| Caldwell | 5114 | 376 | 717 | 1093 | 12 | 21 | 33 | 1126 | 44.0% |
| Surry | 10308 | 1035 | 2128 | 3163 | 36 | 50 | 86 | 3249 | 63.0% |
| Watauga | 3306 | 196 | 320 | 516 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 519 | 33.2% |
| Wilkes | 10957 | 390 | 577 | 967 | - | - | - | 967 | 17.6% |
| State Wide | 580491 | 26239 | 47327 | 73327 | 3099 | 3758 | 6857 | 80083 | 2 7.6% |
| Tennessee | |||||||||
| Carter | 5943 | 364 | 643 | 1007 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 1018 | 34.3% |
| Hawkins | 11680 | 259 | 183 | 442 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 455 | 08.3% |
| Greene | 16731 | 908 | 2066 | 2974 | 37 | 32 | 69 | 3038 | 36.3 % |
| Johnson | 3499 | 251 | 507 | 758 | - | - | - | 758 | 43.3% |
| Sullivan | 10738 | 370 | 401 | 771 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 795 | 14.7% |
| Washington | 12931 | 816 | 887 | 1703 | 16 | 19 | 35 | 1738 | 2 6.3% |
| State Wide | 763258 | 28469 | 49053 | 77522 | 506 | 591 | 1097 | 7 8114 | 20.5% |
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