Next CCGS Meeting
April 16, 2019 at 7:15 p.m.
Senior Citizen Recreation Center, 5 McDougal St., Springhill, NS.
After the meeting our speakers for the evening will be members of the Springhill Heritage Group.
Topic: Moments in Springhill’s History
Local area volunteers welcome. Please join us and help with many of our on going interesting projects.
Get you family memorial leaves placed on the CCGS Memorial Heritage Tree and watch it grow. Add your own ancestors using the attached form and see the tree blossom with Gold, Silver and Greenery. Full news article posted in left column below our newest publications.
Photos
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.