Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Wyer was born in 1838, in Ritchie, Virginia, United States, his father, Cornelius Wyer, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Malone, was 36. He married Hannah Margaret Gregg on 13 December 1867, in Gilmer, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
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- Benjn F Miers in household of Elizabeth Miers, "United States Census, 1850"
- Benjamin Wires, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Benjamin F. Wyer in entry for George M. Wyer and Virginia Aileen Sneed, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Ware , from Middle English war(e), wer(e) ‘weir, fish trap’. This word developed regularly in early modern English to ware, wear(e), wer(re), weer(e), and weir(e), but it also appears as wier, wyre, and wire, presumably from a Middle English variant wire. The name may have been given to someone employed as a wereward ‘weir-keeper’. See also Weir and Wear .
English: in some cases, this is a habitational name from Wyre Forest or from Wyre Piddle, both in Worcestershire, probably named from a Celtic river name meaning ‘winding river’.
Irish (Westmeath and Offaly): from Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’; see Weir 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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