When Martha Ellen Harlow was born on 28 January 1837, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, her father, Tandy Wilson Harlow Jr, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth G Wren, was 24. She married William Richard Kirby on 31 May 1855, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Kerrs Creek District, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Lexington District, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 December 1930, in Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Timber Ridge Arp Church Cemetery, Timber Ridge, Rockbridge, 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.
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English: habitational name from Harlow (Essex), Harlow in Mayfield (Staffordshire), Great Harlow in Clapham (Yorkshire), Harlow Hill in Pannal (Yorkshire), or Harlow Hill in Ovingham (Northumberland). The Essex and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English here ‘army’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’. The other placenames probably derive from Old English hār ‘gray, hoar’ + hlāw.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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