When Noah Raber was born on 17 September 1817, in Monongalia, Virginia, United States, his father, Christopher Raber Jr, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Katharine Fluharty, was 33. He married Zany Pride on 10 November 1842, in Marion, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Cass District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 29 July 1900, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
German and Swiss German:
apparently an occupational name for a turnip grower, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rabe ‘turnip’.
(also Räber): from an ancient Germanic personal name, Radobert, a compound of rād, rāt ‘advice, counsel’ + berht ‘bright, famous’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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