When Jacob E Witt was born in 1844, in Lee, Virginia, United States, his father, Jonathan Witt, was 18 and his mother, Lucinda Clarkston, was 17. He married Elizabeth Johnson on 15 September 1864, in Lee, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lee, Lee, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died on 10 March 1893, in Pocket, Lee, Virginia, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Huff And Witt Cemetery, Keokee, Lee, Virginia, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
North German: nickname for someone with white hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from Middle Low German witte ‘white’.
South German: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Wittigo. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
English (Hampshire and Wiltshire): variant of White .
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