Land and Personal Property Tax lists were compiled each year in each county
and city. Names of dead people sometimes appear on those lists.

If the name of a person who died during that year appears in the tax list,

it might be because he or she died after the list was compiled.

it might be because the person compiling the list didn't know that the
person had already died.

it might be because the person compiling the list forgot to add "estate" to
the name of the person being taxes.

and in the instance mentioned on Va-Roots yesterday, it might be that a
husband and a wife were separately taxed for different property.

Doubtless many other subscribers to Va-Roots will have found other anomolies
in the tax lists.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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