When Eliza Flesher was born on 10 March 1819, in Harrison, Virginia, United States, her father, Henry Flesher, was 24 and her mother, Mary Allen, was 21. She married Thomas Cochrane Taylor on 23 May 1839, in Lewis, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Meigs, Orange Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Syracuse, Sutton Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died in 1902, in Sutton Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Syracuse Hill Cemetery, Syracuse, Meigs, Ohio, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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: occupational name for a butcher, from Middle English fles(c)her, flesho(u)r ‘butcher’, an agent derivative of flesh ‘meat’, or from Middle English fleshheuer, fleshewer ‘butcher’, a compound of flesh ‘meat’ + heuer ‘cutter’. This surname has sometimes been confused with Fletcher .
Americanized form of German Fleischer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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