When Sarah Agnes Bowen was born on 6 December 1820, in Scott, Virginia, United States, her father, Jesse Bowen, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Stanley, was 23. She married Claiborn W Neeley on 15 May 1838, in Scott, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Powell District, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 6 March 1900, in Gate City, Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Neeley Cemetery, Clinch, Scott, Virginia, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).
Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.
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