Brief Life History of Margaret S.
When Margaret S. Gullion was born on 22 June 1842, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, her father, Major Gullion, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth H. Gordon, was 29. She married John Thomas Franklin on 18 December 1876, in Smyth, Virginia, United States. She lived in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 26 September 1909, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, United States.
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- Margaret S Franklin in household of John T Franklin, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Gullion - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Margaret S. Gullion
- M. S. Franklin, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened form of Magullion or Mac Gullian, Anglicized forms of Gaelic Mac Gilleáin, a diminutive of gile ‘brightness’, geal ‘bright’, or giolla ‘lad’. This surname is now rare in Britain and Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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