Brief Life History of Amanda Caroline
When Amanda Caroline Wells was born on 15 December 1823, in Virginia, United States, her father, Humphrey Wells, was 32 and her mother, Mary, was 22. She married Calvin William McGhee in 1838, in Grainger, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Van Buren Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Logan Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 26 March 1876, in Patterson, Wayne, Missouri, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Patterson, Wayne, Missouri, United States.
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- Amanda McGee in household of Calvin McGee, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Amanda Caroline Wells - birth-name: Amanda Caroline Wells
- Amanda Caroline Wells McGhee, "Find A Grave Index"
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1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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