When Elizabeth Wheatley was born on 5 March 1838, in Scott, Virginia, United States, her father, Arthur Hale Wheatley, was 31 and her mother, Nancy Anne Salyer, was 23. She married John Stapleton on 23 January 1862, in Scott, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Freedom Township, Lafayette, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 12 March 1924, in Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Johnson, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1842: Johnson, Kentucky, United States
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.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Wheatley, for example in Essex, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Yorkshire, or from Whatley in Somerset and Whateley in Warwickshire, all name of which are named with Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’. Compare Whatley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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