{"id":48417,"date":"2016-07-26T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48417"},"modified":"2016-07-26T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:04:57","slug":"meet-edith-cumbo-nation-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48417","title":{"rendered":"Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbofamily.com\/?p=530\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbofamily.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbofamily.com\/?page_id=143\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andre Kearns<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in <a href=\"http:\/\/Williamsburg, Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Williamsburg, Virginia<\/a>. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonial_Williamsburg\" target=\"_blank\">Colonial Williamsburg<\/a> features a historical figure \u2013 Edith Cumbo \u2013 who is an ancestral family member.<\/p>\n<p>Edith Cumbo, as far as I can tell, is my first cousin 9 times removed. Continuing to trace back from my 5th great grandfather Britton Cumbo Sr. of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northampton_County,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">Northampton, North Carolina <\/a>to our original ancestor Emanuell Cambow, the focus of my current research, will help me to confirm this.<\/p>\n<p>Edith Cumbo was a mixed race, free woman of color born around 1735 to Richard Cumbo Jr., the grandson of Emanuell Cambow, and an Irish woman. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_of_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">18th-century Virginia<\/a> law, the status of your mother determined whether you were born enslaved or free. Both of her parents were free and so was Edith&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbofamily.com\/?p=530\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-07-24 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because Colonial Williamsburg features a historical figure \u2013 Edith Cumbo \u2013 who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20,693],"tags":[24594,24591,24597,24598,24596,23069],"class_list":["post-48417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-andre-kearns","tag-cumbo-family-website","tag-edith-cumbo","tag-emanuell-cambow","tag-richard-cumbo-jr","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48418,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48417\/revisions\/48418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}