When James Ware Joplin was born on 27 October 1769, in Amherst, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Josiah Joplin, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Powell Ware, was 21. He married Nancy Martin on 21 October 1793, in Amherst, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 12 daughters. He died on 5 October 1852, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, at the age of 82.
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English: from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Jopelin, a pet form of Jop (see Job ) + the double diminutive suffix -elin.
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