When Lavisa Bowling was born in 1810, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Benjamin Bowling, was 18 and her mother, Nancy McFarland, was 18. She married George Chappell on 18 October 1855, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Morgan, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Wolfe, Kentucky, United States in 1870.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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.
English: habitational name from Bowling in Bradford, Yorkshire.
Americanized form of German Bolling or Bohling .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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