When Bertha Ruth Prior was born in 1770, in Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Prior, was 21 and her mother, Phobe Sexton, was 21. She married William Thomas Eaton Sr in 1792, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1850, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80.
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On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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English (southern), Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a prior.
Irish: Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is the usual origin in counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1 above.
Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a pompous way.
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