When Josephine Bonaparte Bradshaw was born in 1839, in Virginia, United States, her father, William Bradshaw, was 29 and her mother, Jane Jenny Horton, was 27. She married Hugh Lafayette Riley on 18 December 1871, in Russell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Russell, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Justice Precinct 3, Ellis, Texas, United States in 1900. She died in 1913, in Donley, Texas, United States, at the age of 74.
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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.
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.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Bradshaw in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + sceaga ‘thicket’.
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