When Susan Staley was born in June 1839, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, her father, Benjamin Staley, was 40 and her mother, Regina Huddle, was 37. She married George Wampler on 22 April 1857, in Wythe, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Blacklick, Wythe, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Black Lick District, Wythe, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 17 May 1909, in Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Saint Pauls Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, 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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from Staveley in Derbyshire, Stayley in Lancashire (now called Stalybridge in Greater Manchester), or perhaps Staveley (Westmorland), Staveley (Lancashire), or Staveley (Yorkshire). The placenames all derive from Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’ (genitive plural stafa) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Staveley .
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