Brief Life History of Caroline Penelope
When Caroline Penelope Ward was born on 2 February 1826, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Milton B Ward, was 28 and her mother, Martha Davidson Thompson, was 24. She married William Matney Ratliff on 1 April 1852, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Garden, Russell, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 9 June 1890, in Buchanan, Virginia, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Ratliff Cemetery, Buchanan, Virginia, United States.
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- Caroline Ratliff in household of William Ratliff, "United States Census, 1860"
- Caroline, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Caroline Ward, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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