Brief Life History of Sarah Jane
When Sarah Jane Workman was born on 23 April 1842, in Floyd, Virginia, United States, her father, Charles William Workman Sr., was 22 and her mother, Phebe Margaret Bailey, was 18. She married Marston Greenville Clay on 24 December 1865, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Wyoming, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Wyoming, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 December 1897, in Shiloh, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Henry Clay Cemetery, Saulsville, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States.
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- Jane Workman in household of Charles Workman, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sarah J Workman, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Sarah Jane Workman Clay, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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