When Emeline Frances Nance was born on 15 February 1836, in Lynchburg, Bedford, Virginia, United States, her father, John Nance, was 45 and her mother, Martha Ann Estes, was 46. She married Jubal James Wright on 29 November 1855, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Osborn, Clinton, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Clinton, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 11 February 1924, in Platte Township, Clinton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Lebanon Church Cemetery, Starfield, Clinton, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1841: Gentry County created from Non-county Area 12
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.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Americanized form of German Nantz .
Cornish: habitational name from any of the places so-named in Lelant, Saint Clement, Illogan, or Saint Martin in Meneage. The placenames derive from Middle Cornish nans ‘valley’.
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