Brief Life History of Martha Ann
When Martha Ann Poston was born in November 1841, in Smyth, Virginia, United States, her father, Isaac Poston, was 46 and her mother, Jane Miller, was 41. She married Henry Jezreel Harman in November 1864. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Rich Valley, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 4 April 1907, at the age of 65, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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- Martha Poston in household of Isaac Poston, "United States Census, 1860"
- Martha Harmon, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Martha Harmon, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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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
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
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
English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Middle English postern(e) ‘side door or gate, secret door or passage’; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper, and in some may be a habitational name from a place such as Postern in Kent or Derbyshire.
habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + thorn ‘thorn tree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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