When Sebra F. "Silvia" Myers was born in July 1840, in Tyler, West Virginia, United States, her father, Frederick D. Myers, was 37 and her mother, Pleasant "Pleasy" Archey, was 14. She married James Dallas Lemaster on 12 March 1870, in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Grant District, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Greenwood, Henrico, Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 26 August 1914, in Piney, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Piney, Wetzel, West 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.
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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