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of the National D-Day
Memorial
Bedford, Virginia… Like eleven other Virginia communities, Bedford provided a company of soldiers (Company A) to the 29th Infantry Division when the National Guard’s 116th Infantry Regiment was activated on 3 February 1941. Some thirty Bedford soldiers were still in that company on D-Day; several more from Bedford were in other D-Day companies, including one who, two years earlier, had been reassigned from the 116th Infantry to the First Infantry Division. Thus he had already landed in both Northern Africa and Sicily before coming ashore on D-Day at Omaha Beach with the Big Red One. Company A of the 116th Infantry assaulted Omaha Beach as part of the First Division’s Task Force O.
By day’s end, nineteen of the company’s Bedford soldiers were dead. Two more Bedford soldiers died later in the Normandy campaign, as did yet another two assigned to other 116th Infantry companies. Bedford’s population in 1944 was about 3,200. Proportionally this community suffered the nation’s severest D-Day losses. Recognizing Bedford as emblematic of all communities, large and small, whose citizen-soldiers served on D-Day, Congress warranted the establishment of the National D-Day Memorial..
Table of Contents
Free Negroes in Bedford Co for the year 1851,
Contributed by Vee Elliott
Assorted Marriages
This is a file of assorted marriages courtesy of Evelyn Huffman.
Patricia Bergener provided us with a large number of assorted records.
Judy S. Fink has provided to us, her list of HOGAN marriages.
There are two versions of the index:
1. sorted by Groom's Name, and
2. sorted by Bride's Name
Surname Index to the 1810 census
Surname Index to the 1820 census
Surname Index to the 1860 census
Surname Index to the 1870 census
Tombstone Transcription Project
Surnames
Resources
Bedford Genealogical Society, Inc.
www.bedfordsociety.org
Bedford Museum Genealogy and History Forum
Bedford Museum Genealogical Library
www.bedfordvamuseum.org
Central Virginia Genealogical Association
John Sinor, Sr, Revolutionary War soldier, his son, John Sinor, Jr., veteran of the War of 1812. courtesy Marian Dingman
Charles City Co (Original Shire)
Prince George Co (1703)
Brunswick Co (1732)
Lunenburg Co (1746)
Amherst
Campbell
Botetourt
Franklin
Pittsylvania
Rock Bridge
Linda Simpson - County Coordinator
Jeff Kemp - State Coordinator
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