Lynchburg (Independent City), Virginia Genealogy

United States Virginia  Lynchburg (Independent City)

Parent County
1852--Lynchburg was created in 1852 from Campbell County.

Cemeteries
"Diuguid Digital Archive,"

The undertaking records of the Diuguid Funeral Service &amp; Crematory of Lynchburg were placed on permanent loan with the Southern Memorial Associaton in 2005 and 2007. They now sponors this website which provides access to the burial records from 1820-1950. Read the about page to learn of the scope of these records which cover 42 general burial ledgers and 14 cemetery plot books.

J. E. Fauber Funeral Home

Funeral home collection from the Jones Memorial Library, the second oldest public library in Virginia. The Whitten Funeral Home gave these burial records to the library for preservation.

This collection includes burial records, “first call sheets” and sales records of the J. E. Fauber Funeral Home of Lynchburg, Virginia for the period from 1919 through 1952. Also included in the collection are the burial records of J. J. Hughes and Company for 1915 through 1917, and the Lynchburg Undertaking Company, Inc. for 1918. These establishments were predecessors of the Fauber Funeral home. The burial records of the Virginia Funeral Chapel, Inc., for the period from 1952 through 1985.

Church
Quaker


 * Brown, Jane Douglas Summers and Jones Memorial Library. Jane Douglas Summers Brown (1903-) Quaker Records: Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia); MS 1515. MSS, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Va. Available on 26 microfilms at . [Includes records of Lynchburg Quakers; Brown assisted "William Wade Hinshaw in the writing of the Virginia volume of the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy."]

Genealogy

 * [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. Page Family Records in Virginia Counties. 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 1982-2006. [Lynchburg appears in Vol. 2 Part 3]
 * [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850). 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. [Lynchburg appears in Vol. 2]

Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will a of resident of Lynchburg proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Civil War Battle
The following Civil War battle was fought in Lynchburg.


 * June 17-18, 1864 = Lynchburg


 * Maps of Civil War battles in Virginia: 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865

Since Lynchburg was created in 1852, the Civil War records were kept by the city of Lynchburg.

Newspapers

 * 1797-1798 - Lynchburg Weekly Museum at Genealogy Bank ($).


 * 1798-1799 - Lynchburg Weekly Gazette at Genealogy Bank ($).


 * 1809-1818 - Lynchburg Press at Genealogy Bank ($).

Occupations

 * Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. Available at . [Includes a section on Lynchburg silversmiths.]

Probate
London Courts


 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will a of resident of Lynchburg proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Lynchburg Virginia Family History Center

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.