When Jonathan William Rinker was born about 1835, in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob D Rinker, was 26 and his mother, Mary Anne Craig, was 16. He married Nancy Baker on 23 February 1860, in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Warren, Virginia, United States for about 10 years.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
German:
occupational name for a buckle maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rinke ‘buckle’.
from an old personal name based on hring ‘ring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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