Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Cumberland County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History Cumberland County was established in 1749 from Goochland County. The county is named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II of Great Britain. Cumberland County was also home to the Fleming family, which included Judge John Fleming and his son Judge William Fleming. From 1749 until the creation of Powhatan County in 1777, Mosby Tavern served as the county courthouse, and the tavern subsequently became known as "Old Cumberland Courthouse." INCORPORATED COMMUNITY:  Farmville UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES: Cartersville - Cumberland - Tamworth Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates Apr 2012 1890 Veteran's Census - Cumberland 1890 Veteran's Census - Madison Feb 2012 Wm. R. Bradley Obituary December 2011 Price Williams Biography October 2011 William Henry Harrison Biography Jun 2011 Daniel Langhorne, M.D. May 2011 Munroe Family Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Goochland County - northeast * Powhatan County - east * Amelia County - southeast * Prince Edward County - south * Buckingham County - west * Fluvanna County - northwest Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.