When Lucy Catherine Shipe was born in January 1840, in Clarke, Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph Theodore Shipe, was 24 and her mother, Deborah Ann Kendall, was 22. She married James W. Gordon on 11 January 1857, in Clarke, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Warren, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Cedarville, Warren, Virginia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 29 December 1924, in United States, at the age of 84.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
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