When James Patrick Workman was born on 10 April 1861, in McDowell, Virginia, United States, his father, Charles William Workman Sr., was 41 and his mother, Phebe Margaret Bailey, was 37. He married Lobelia Bethany Workman on 26 August 1881, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Slab Fork District, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Falling Spring, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He died on 17 November 1939, in Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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