The AGM meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in the Senior Citizens Centre, Springhill, NS
All members are asked to attend and help with selection of officers and board members. If you have some spare time to help with projects, please come forth and ask how you may be able to help the society and take some of the overwhelming work load from the shoulders of the few truly active and dedicated members.
Speaker: David Winter
Topic: Mr. Winter is Cumberland County's daily contributor of genealogical information (vital stats & obituaries) from NS Archive, Halifax, to the nscumber email list. He has been researching and sharing with anyone interested for a number of years now. Much appreciated by many for his contributions.
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Cumberland County Nova Scotia Cemetery Map
Price $3.00 + S & H
1 sheet 2 sided pamphlet
”8 ½ X 11″, 3 folds
Publication compiled by Cumberland County Genealogical society.
Who is Buried Here ?
There are very few headstones in Cumberland County with death dates prior to 1800, even though French settlements were being established more than 100 years earlier. Many of those early settlers as well as those who died as a result of the battles for supremacy fought between the French and English lie in unmarked graves. With the development of communities and religious groups came structured burial grounds and more complete death records. In community, church and family cemeteries the oldest burials include Acadians, Planters, Yorkshiremen, Loyalists and slaves. A common death date for several members of the same family was often the result of fire or diseases such as the influenza epidemic. Wars and mine disasters are reflected in the death dates of miners and veterans.