When Margaret Frances Dickerson was born in 1827, in Bedford City, Virginia, United States, her father, Hezekiah Dickerson, was 37 and her mother, Frances McGeorge, was 31. She married Achilles Milton Capps on 23 May 1843, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Magisterial District 1 Hardinsburg, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died in 1880, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Buriāl, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
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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.
English (East Anglia): post-medieval form of Dickeson , a shortened form of Dickenson .
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