When Sarah Ann Hawkins was born on 18 November 1822, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Aaron Leslie Hawkins, was 23 and her mother, Ann Catharine Dicken, was 20. She married Samuel Lough on 27 September 1841, in Monongalia, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Marion, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Monongalia, Virginia, United States in 1860. She died on 2 December 1905, in Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Saint Johns Cemetery, Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
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.
English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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