Brief Life History of Julia Ann
When Julia Ann Martin was born on 29 April 1836, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, her father, William Joseph Martin, was 26 and her mother, Eleanor Ellis, was 26. She married Colita Whitfield Dobyns on 22 January 1860, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Staunton Magisterial District, Bedford, Virginia, United States in 1870. She died on 4 June 1878, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Huddleston, Bedford, Virginia, United States.
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- J Dobyns in household of Elizabeth Dobyns, "United States Census, 1860"
- Julia D Dobyns, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Julia A. Martin, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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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.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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