When Sarah Ellen Nester was born on 22 May 1857, in Barbour, Virginia, United States, her father, Eli Nester, was 22 and her mother, Lydia Hoult, was 23. She married James Riley McDougal on 15 October 1882, in Marion, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Paw Paw, Marion, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Lincoln District, Marion, West Virginia, United States in 1880.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
German: presumably a topographic name from Middle High German nest ‘nest, hideout, home’ or, in some cases, a habitational name for someone from Nest, a place near Köslin in eastern Germany.
Irish: variant of Nestor 1.
Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, and Rusyn (from Poland): from a vernacular form of the personal name Nestor 2 and its Ukrainian standard form Nestir.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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