The 7 Cumbo Tribes of Northampton, North Carolina
There were seven Cumbo Tribes of Northampton County, North Carolina. The biblical Abraham of our tribe was my great-great-great-great (4x) grandfather Britton C...
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Who was Lou Pope Cumbo?
Louisa “Lou” Pope Cumbo was my great-great-great grandmother. She was born around 1832 in Northampton County, North Carolina to a free family of color. Her fat...
A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage
My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a...
My Ancestral Pilgrimage to Northampton, NC
My Cumbo ancestors settled into Northampton County, North Carolina at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. Here is a travelogue of my trip to Northampton in Oct...