When James Elbert Arrington was born on 23 October 1862, in Murphy, Buchanan, Virginia, United States, his father, John Francis Arrington, was 30 and his mother, Martha Ann Sykes, was 24. He married Rachel Matilda Rasnick on 7 December 1882, in Lee, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Grundy, Buchanan, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Appalachia, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 14 March 1950, in Big Stone Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Glencoe Cemetery, Big Stone Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English:
variant of Harrington with loss of initial H-.
possibly a habitational name from Arrington, a place in Cambridgeshire, named from an Old English byname, Earn(a), meaning ‘eagle’ + -inga- ‘people or followers of’ + tūn ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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