When Elizabeth Ann Whipkey was born on 24 July 1840, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry Whipkey, was 22 and her mother, Mary Catherine Grindle, was 23. She married John Henry Harding on 14 March 1861, in Rocklick, Marshall, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hebron, Thayer, Nebraska, United States in 1910 and Grant Township, Osborne, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died on 2 August 1928, in Alton, Osborne, Kansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Grant Center Cemetery, Alton, Osborne, Kansas, United States.
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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.
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Americanized form of German Hipke or, less likely, of North German Wiebke or of its variant Wiepke.
History: The Whipkeys trace their origin to Johann(es) Jacob Whipkey from Wissembourg (German: Weissenburg) in Alsace, France, on the border with Germany, who arrived in Philadelphia, PA, on the ship Neptune in 1752. His surname was recorded upon arrival as Hipge.
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