When Prescova Peters was born in March 1841, in Scott, Virginia, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Peters, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Williams, was 21. She married Robert G Kidd on 16 May 1861, in Scott, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sturgeon, Owsley, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years and Berea, Madison, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died in 1930, at the age of 89, and was buried in Berea, Madison, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
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