Brief Life History of Josephine
When Josephine Severance was born on 24 January 1838, in Kanawha, Gilmer, Virginia, United States, her father, Benjamin Severance, was 43 and her mother, Emma Jane Bean, was 25.
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Altered form by folk etymology of German Severens, a derivative of the Latin personal name Severinus (see Severin ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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