Brief Life History of Lamech Samuel
When Lamech Samuel Metz was born on 20 October 1840, in Marion, Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel Leonard Metz, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Sally Fletcher, was 31. He married Martha Ann Metz on 8 February 1866, in Marion, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Mannington, Marion, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 5 December 1907, in Glover Gap, Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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- Lamech Metz in household of Leonard Metz, "United States Census, 1860"
- Lamach Metz, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Lamech Metz, "Find A Grave Index"
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1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
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.
Name Meaning
German: from a short form of the female personal name Mechthild, composed of ancient Germanic maht ‘might, strength’ + hild ‘strife, battle’.
German, French (Alsace and Lorraine), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Metz in Lorraine, which took its name from a Gaulish tribe, the Mediomatrici; in the name of the place this became abbreviated to Mettis, hence the modern name.
German: from Mätz, a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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