Octavia Spangler

28 February 1837–14 April 1915 (Age 78)
Floyd, Virginia, United States

The Life of Octavia

When Octavia Spangler was born on 28 February 1837, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Spangler, was 42 and her mother, Mary Catharine Hylton, was 44. She married Elinas Logan Whitlock on 4 November 1858, in Floyd, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Fairfield District, Henrico, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 14 April 1915, in Little River District, Floyd, Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Whitlock Cemetery, Buckingham, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elinas Logan Whitlock
1835–1917
Octavia Spangler
1837–1915
Marriage: 4 November 1858
James Hughey Spangler
1855–1917
Isaac Long Whitlock
1859–1943
Cane L. whitlock
1861–
Rosabell Alice Whitlock
1862–1926
Elinas Lincoln Whitlock
1864–1941
Sarah Magdaline Whitlock
1866–1896
Ulysses Grant Whitlock
1868–1936
Elijah Freshman Whitlock
1871–1943
Laura Ellen Whitlock
1875–1964
Lillian Dove "Lillie" Whitlock
1876–1971
Mary Elizabeth Catherine Whitlock
1878–1974
Gustavus Arthur Whitlock
1882–1954

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
4 November 1858
Floyd, Virginia, United States
children

(12)

    James Hughey Spangler

    Male1855–1917Male

    Isaac Long Whitlock

    Male1859–1943Male

    Cane L. whitlock

    Male1861–Male

    Rosabell Alice Whitlock

    Female1862–1926Female

    Elinas Lincoln Whitlock

    Male1864–1941Male

+7 More Children

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(13)

+8 More Children

World Events (8)

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

Age 7

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

Age 9

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas

Age 24

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

Name Meaning

German (Bavarian): originally an occupational name for a maker of buckles, from an agent derivative of a diminutive form of Middle High German spange ‘clasp’, ‘buckle’, ‘ornamental fastening’, later coming to mean ‘tinsmith’, ‘plumber’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • Octavia Whitlock in household of James Whitlock, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Octavia Whitlock in household of Elinas Whitlock, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Octavo Spangler in household of Samuel Spangler, "United States Census, 1850"

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