When Ephraim Wimer was born in July 1834, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States, his father, Philip Wimer Jr, was 37 and his mother, Mary Ann Hoover, was 30. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Martha Ellen Harold. He lived in Pendleton, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died on 26 February 1910, in Blue Grass, Highland, Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Blue Grass Cemetery, Blue Grass, Highland, Virginia, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Altered form of English Wymer or German Weimer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesEphraim Wimer Was born in Pendleton county, West Virginia, in 1834, and died in Crabbottom February 26,1910. He received his education in the "old field" schools of his day. The early years of his yo …
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