Brief Life History of King Harry
When King Harry Richmond was born in October 1857, in Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier, Virginia, United States, his father, Parkerson John Richmond, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Shrewsbury, was 22. He married Nancy Catherine Pittsenbarger on 4 May 1888, in Fayette, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Kentucky District, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Summersville, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 16 October 1932, in Nicholas, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mountain Baptist Church Cemetery, Carl, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States.
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- King Richmond, "United States Census, 1920"
- King Richmond, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- King Harry Richmond, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
habitational name from Richmond (North Yorkshire). The placename was probably transferred after the Norman Conquest from any of numerous places in France named with Old French riche ‘mighty, strong’ + munt, mont ‘mountain, hill’. Richmond in southwest London received this name only in the reign of Henry VII, in honor of the king, who had been Earl of Richmond until he came to the throne, and is unlikely to be the source of this surname.
occasionally a variant of Richman , with excrescent -d. The two names were probably often confused.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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