When Jason Cornelius Crigler was born on 1 January 1836, in Madison, Virginia, United States, his father, Joseph Fielding Crigler, was 42 and his mother, Ellen Nellie Utz, was 41. He married Mary Elizabeth Aylor on 21 March 1867, in Madison, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Robertson District, Madison, Virginia, United States for about 30 years and Brightwood, Madison, Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 27 October 1927, in Madison, Virginia, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Hebron Lutheran Church Cemetery, Madison, Madison, Virginia, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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.
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.
Americanized form of German Kriegler, a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kriegen ‘to quarrel, to dispute’, or an occupational name for an innkeeper or potter, a variant of Krüger (see Krueger ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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