I am Rebecca Maloney, Webmistress and Coordinator for this Madison County, Virginia site. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. If you would like to adopt this county or other ones in Virginia please contact our State Coordinator Jeff Kemp.
HISTORY:
Madison County was first settled in 1724 by a group
of German Lutherans who founded the Hebron Lutheran Church, the oldest
Lutheran Church in America. Madison County was granted a charter in
December 1792 and a log courthouse was built in 1793. The present brick
courthouse was built in 1829-1830. It was named for the Madison family
that owned a tract of land along the Rapidan River. The county seat of
Madison County, Virginia, is Madison. For more historical information,
click the "History" link on the left sidebar.
Disasters in
Madison County [email me to add others]:
A thunderstorm parked
itself over Madison County dumping close to a foot of rain during the
last week of June 1995. To make matters worse, the region suffered from
an all time record drought during the month of August and September
1995, destroying the remaining crops that survived the flood.
Genealogy of Madison County,
Charles River Co (Original
Shire)-> Chickacoan Indian Reserve ->name changed to York Co (1642) ->
Northumberland Co (1648) -> Lancaster Co (1651) New Kent Co (1654) ->
Rappahannock Co (1656-1692) (defunct) King and Queen Co (1691) ->
Essex Co (1692)
-> King William Co (1702) -> Spotsylvania Co (1721)
-> Orange Co (1734) Culpeper Co (1749) -> Madison Co (1793)
I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Madison County roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in Colorado and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.
Make sure you check the "Research Resources" section! There are helpful links, look up volunteers and local researchers to help you out.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:
Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney
State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp
Asst. State Coordinators:
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research.