Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Hardman was born on 5 October 1838, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Dexter Hardman, was 27 and her mother, Mary Life, was 24. She married John Livingston on 28 February 1877, in Lewis, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Lewis, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Courthouse District, Lewis, West Virginia, United States in 1910.
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- Mary E Hardman in household of John L Hardman, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Elizabeth Hardman - Published information: birth-name: Mary E. Hardman
- Mary E Hardman, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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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.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English herdeman, herdema+n, hurdeman (Old English hierdeman, heordman) ‘herdsman, one who tends livestock’. Compare Heard .
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name Hardman (Old English Heardmann, literally ‘hard man’).
English and Irish: shortened form of Hardeman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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