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African American Family History and Genealogy in Lovingston Nelson County Virginia

African American Genealogy and family history. This site is about an intriguing story of an entire county of negro slaves, along with their descendants who are all related by an extensive web of en-tangled marriages dating back to 1740, encompassing a four hundred and seventy one square mile area of central Virginia, located in Lovingston, Nelson, Virginia at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains known as the Piedmont Plateau. Surnames shown on this site are: Allen, Bailey, Beverly, Bolden, Bowling, Braddock, Cabbell, Callen, Cashwell, Christian, Clopton, Coleman, Cottrell,Crocktt, Diggs, Durrett, Early, Edmunds, Ellis, Epps, Essex, Fleming, Ferguson, Garrett, Giles, Gilmore, Horsley, Howard, Hughes, Johnson, Jamieson, Jemison, Jett, Ligon, Loving, Mack, Mayo, Mead, Meade, Meades, Meads, Meredith, Mitchell, Morse, Mosby, Murphy, Napier, Nicholas, Nunnally, Nunery, Oakrum, Page, Payne, Penn, Pinn, Powell, Rose, Sandidge, Shipman, Steptoe, Strange, Taliaferro, Toliver, Tompkins, Thompson, Vanison, Vaughn, Vaughan, Venable, Woodson, Yancy, family lines.