Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Appomattox County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County Information/History Appomattox County was formed in 1845 from Buckingham, Prince Edward, Campbell and Charlotte Counties. In 1848, another part of Campbell county was added. It was named for the Appomattox River. On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E Lee met with Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House. The surrender of Lee took place at the McLean House, home of Wilmer McLean. Towns Appomattox & Pamplin City Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills Website updates: May 2012 Mrs. mary Woodbridge Obituary Mrs. Eugene Morris Col. Thomas H. Flood Captain C. Macon Mrs. Robert P. McPheeters Apr 2012 Cemetery Listing Mar 2012 Edward A. Palmer Biography Jan. 2012 Hon, Charles James Faulkner Biography Nov. 2011 Colonel James W. Watts Biography Oct 2011 Will of John Arrington Jun 2011 William B. Via Obituary Surrounding Counties Amherst Co VA - Buckingham Co VA - Campbell Co VA Charlotte Co VA - Nelson Co VA - Prince Edward Co VA Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.