When Eliza Ann Stubblefield was born on 3 February 1823, in Virginia, United States, her father, Peter B. Stubblefield, was 30 and her mother, Sally Worsham, was 33. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with James M. Bass. She died before 1842.
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“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English (Cambridgeshire): perhaps a habitational name from Stubblefield in Otterden (Kent), apparently named with Middle English stuble ‘stalk of grain, stump of a grain stalk left in the ground after reaping’ + feld ‘open country, field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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