Brief Life History of Martha B
When Martha B Randolph was born on 3 May 1857, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Lancaster Randolpoh, was 54 and her mother, Rebecca Sparks, was 41. She married Jesse Ashburn about 1877, in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 8, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 13, Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 9 May 1925, in Silver Point, Putnam, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Silver Point, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.
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- Martha Ashburn in household of Jesse Ashburn, "United States Census, 1880"
- Martha Ashburn, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
- Martha Randolph in entry for Oval Ashburn, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).
History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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