When Christina Shade was born about 1830, in Virginia, United States, her father, Adam Shade, was 43 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Hinckle, was 40. She married Elijah Shirley on 5 July 1849, in Frederick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Timber Ridge District, Morgan, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary, from Middle English shed(e) ‘boundary’ (Old English scēad).
English: perhaps a nickname for a very thin man, from Middle English shade, shadwe ‘shadow’ (Old English sceadu).
Americanized form of German and Dutch Schade .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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