When Morgan Greenlee was born on 14 May 1819, in Leon, Mason, Virginia, United States, his father, Morris Greenlee, was 28 and his mother, Nancy E. Kimberling, was 28. He married Eliza Jane Greenlee on 1 May 1841, in Mason, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Cologne District, Mason, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 1 September 1904, in Leon, Mason, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Greenlee Cemetery, Leon, Mason, West Virginia, 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.
Scottish (Lanarkshire): from Greenlea in Dumfriesshire, from Older Scots grēne ‘green’ + ley ‘piece of open country’, later ‘meadow’.
Scottish: alternatively, a variant of Greenlees with loss of final -s.
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