Brief Life History of Margaret Peggy
When Margaret Peggy Higginbotham was born in 1820, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Moses Higginbotham, was 29 and her mother, Eleanor Jane Smith, was 30. She married Jordan Efferson Bowling on 19 June 1837, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1870.
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- Margaret Bowling, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Higginbotham - Government record: birth: 1820; Tazewell, Virginia, United States
- Margarett Higginbotham, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1824 · "Mary Randolph Publishes ""The Virginia Housewife"""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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
English (Cheshire): habitational name from Oakenbottom in Bolton le Moors (Lancashire), probably originally called ǣcen-botme ‘oaken valley’. During the Middle Ages this name became successively Eakenbottom and Ickenbottom, with the first element becoming associated with the Lancashire and Cheshire dialect word hicken or higgen ‘mountain ash’ or the personal name Higgin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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