Lynchburg (Independent City), Virginia Genealogy

Description
The City of Lynchburg is located in the Piedmont area of the Commonwealth of Virginia and was named for John Lynch, who established a ferry service on the James River in 1757.

Courthouse
For additional records, see Campbell County.

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.


 * 1820-1971 - at FamilySearch — index and images

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.

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

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.]

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.]

Birth

 * 1853-1868 - Lynchburg Christening Index 1853-1868. Batch at FamilySearch - free.

Marriage

 * 1805-1853 - Lynchburg Marriage Index 1805-1853. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1853-1909 - Lynchburg Marriage Index 1853-1909. Batch at FamilySearch - free.

Death

 * 1853-1868 - Lynchburg Death Index 1853-1868. Batch at FamilySearch - free.

Family History Centers

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