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"Cemetery Art Work, Symbols, and Their Meanings |
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Mr. Brady Fitts
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Mr. Fitts retired to Virginia in 2004. His family came to James Island, Virginia in 1624. His family migrated west first to Mecklenburg, Halifax and Pittsylvania Counties of Virginia. Then they moved on to the states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Texas.
Mr. Fitts was born in Alabama and served in the US Army from 1963 to 1967. He attended Northeastern Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and MIT in Boston, MA. He married Carole Ann Johnson of Brockton, MA and had two children.
He, was Dig director for the Cohannet Chapter of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, was Chairman of the Raynham Historical Commission and President Raynham Historical Society (life time member) of Raynham, MA. He headed up the Raynham Historical Society in its Cemetery Survey. He also worked on several local television programs for the Society. He was a member of the Plymouth County Genealogical Society of Massachusetts.
Brady worked for 34 years as an Engineer at Bird Machine Company and Baker Hughes Corporation of Walpole, MA and Houston, Texas and was the Lead Technical Writer in the Engineering Department.
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The South Central Virginia Genealogical Society, Inc. (SCVGS) began its work in August 1999, as a non profit organization.
Through volunteers we are acquiring data from many different sources and spending countless hours in cemeteries
in our 13 County service area. These Counties are Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick,
Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Cumberland, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg,
Nottoway, Pittsylvania, and Prince Edward.
Membership entitles you to:
- Use of our growing in-house reference library of books, journals and newsletters
- Classes on genealogical research principles and techniques
- Quarterly newsletter with free query submissions
- Association with fellow genealogists
We have the following resources available:
In All 13 County Cemeteries (partial)
Obituary Index Appomattox Times-Virginian and the Farmville Herald newspapers (partial)
Marriage Records Index (partial)
Military Records Index (partial)
Census Records (partial)
County Histories
A Growing Library of Resource Materials
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