When Elizabeth Minter was born in 1838, in Virginia, United States, her father, William Pendleton Minter, was 39 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Bailey, was 37. She married Andrew Jackson Herd about 1855, in Lee, Virginia, United States. She lived in Travellers Rest, Owsley, Kentucky, United States in 1870.
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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.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
English (southeastern): occupational name for a moneyer, from Middle English myneter, mynter ‘moneyer’, an agent derivative of mynet ‘coin’, from Late Latin moneta ‘money’, originally an epithet of the goddess Juno (meaning ‘counselor’, from monere ‘advise’), at whose temple in Rome the coins were struck. The English term was used at an early date to denote a workman who stamped the coins; later it came to denote the supervisors of the mint, who were wealthy and socially elevated members of the merchant class, and who were made responsible for the quality of the coinage by having their names placed on the coins.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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