When Laura Alice Richmond was born on 12 April 1862, in Raleigh, Virginia, United States, her father, William Caperton "Devil Bill" Richmond, was 38 and her mother, Christiana Elizabeth Fleshman, was 35. She had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Thomas Samuel Irwin. She lived in Richmond District, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 May 1943, in Hinton, Summers, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Hinton, Summers, West Virginia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
habitational name from Richmond (North Yorkshire). The placename was probably transferred after the Norman Conquest from any of numerous places in France named with Old French riche ‘mighty, strong’ + munt, mont ‘mountain, hill’. Richmond in southwest London received this name only in the reign of Henry VII, in honor of the king, who had been Earl of Richmond until he came to the throne, and is unlikely to be the source of this surname.
occasionally a variant of Richman , with excrescent -d. The two names were probably often confused.
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