When John Bigler Righter was born on 18 June 1823, in Clay District, Harrison, Virginia, United States, his father, Abraham John Righter, was 21 and his mother, Drusilla Lowe, was 19. He married Emily Jane Atchison on 13 December 1847. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Harrison, Clay, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 3 December 1885, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Elkview Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Find A Grave Memorials shows the earliest known burial in this cemetery was in 1828. Sarah Forinash Black BIRTH 1788 Harrison County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 1828 (aged 39–40) Harrison County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Elkview Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 50586194
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.
Americanized form of German Reiter or Richter .
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