Lewis Zirkle

Name

Lewis Zirkle

Alternate Names

Lewis Zircle
Liwis Zirele
Lewis Zinkler
Lewis Zinkle

Race

White

Location

County of Roanoke

RR: Roanoke County

Occupation

Farmer

Record(s) Seen In

Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 1

Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 3

Birth Register - 1853-1885 - pp. 1-66

Death Register - 1853-1881

Common Law Orders - A - May 1838 - May 1840​

Roanoke County Slave Requisition Records

Page and Line Number

IAS 1: PP. 65, 68
IAS 3: PP. 472
BR: PP. 20, L. 110; PP. 23, L. 14; PP. 30, L. 57-58; PP. 38, L. 40; PP. 48, L: 11; PP. 51, L. 36
DR: PP. 2, L. 9; PP. 12, L. 53; PP. 20, L. 23
CLA: PP. 95

Date(s) Seen in Records

IAS 1: March 21, 1839, December 28, 1841
BR: May 1857; December 9, 1858; 1859; May 6, 1860; 1862; December 25, 1864
DR: February 1853; June 1857; July 1860

RR: December 19, 1862

People Enslaved

Saul

Elijah

Unrecorded Named Girl

Unrecorded Named Girl

Unrecorded Named Girl

Madison

Unrecorded Named Boy

Unrecorded Named Girl

Nancy Anderson

Alexander

Jane

Agnes

Jane

Adaline

Moses

Additional Information

Lewis Zirkle was listed in an indenture agreement: “...bind unto the said Lewis Zirkle a boy of colour named George Campbell until he arrives to the free age of twenty one which will be on the 25th day of June 1854.”

In the Common Law book, it was ordered that the Overseers of the Poor bind out George, "a boy of color," to Lewis Zinkle.

George Campbell

In Will Book 1, George Ground bequeaths enslaved people to Lewis Circle and makes him an executor. However, in IAS Book 1, which has a copy of the will in the will book, Lewis Circle is still recorded as an executor, but enslaved people were bequeathed to Lewis "Zirkle." There was a Lewis Zirkle in the Roanoke area; however, he is not listed as enslaving anyone in the census records. Moreover, since the Will Book lists Lewis Circle both times, it is assumed that Luckey, Davey, Nancy, Nelly, and the unrecorded named boy were bequeathed to Lewis Circle and not Lewis Zirkle. In case this is an error, Lewis Circle is linked below.

Lewis Circle

George Ground

Lewis Zirkle purchased Saul from Malinda Craig for $400.00.

Malinda Craig

In the Birth Register, Lewis Zirkle is listed as the former enslaver of Nancy Anderson and Alexander.

Louis Anderson, Alexander's father, may have also been enslaved by Lewis Zirkle.

Louis Anderson