When Mary Letitia Wells was born on 12 March 1843, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Ezekial Jeremiah Wells, was 33 and her mother, Mary Day, was 28. She married John Riley Boggs about 1861, in Wise, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 4, Cumberland, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Cumberland, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. She died on 15 October 1931, in Letcher, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Eolia, Letcher, Kentucky, 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.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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