When James Clark Herring was born on 7 August 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, his father, John P. Herring, was 21 and his mother, Lucy Carver, was 23. He married Sally Jane Knight on 17 June 1841, in Callaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 30 January 1888, in Callaway, Missouri, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Historical Boundaries: 1822: Callaway, Missouri, United States
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 (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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