When Hannah Lavalle was born on 9 October 1790, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, her father, Col Jacinth Laval, was 28 and her mother, Rebecca Hartley Withers, was 34. She married Samuel Woodruff about 1815, in Bibb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 28 January 1847, in Centreville, Bibb, Alabama, United States, at the age of 56.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
"In 1792, South Carolina passes a law called the ""head tax"" for all free African Americans from age 16-50. This tax was $2.00."
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Angelo (5), Dino (3), Santo (3), Antonio (2), Salvatore (2), Aldo, Carmel, Duilio, Egidio, Enrico, Luigi.
Italian (also La Valle): topographic name from valle ‘valley’ (from Latin vallis), or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word. Compare Valle .
French (Lavallé): variant of Lavallée ‘the valley’ (see Lavallee ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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