When Isabell Pauley was born in 1838, in Coal River, Kanawha, Virginia, United States, her father, Solomon Pauley, was 21 and her mother, Betsy Elizabeth Priestley, was 20. She lived in Kanawha, Wood, Virginia, United States in 1850. She died on 25 September 1860, in Coal River, Kanawha, Virginia, United States, at the age of 22.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Hollywood Cemetery was established in 1847 in Richmond Virginia. This is where Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler are buried. During the Civil War it became the largest military interments and a large section dedicated to military burials. Jefferson Davis a well known Confederate is also buried here. Many other notable people are also buried here.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Pauly, or a pet form of Paul.
German: variant or a derivative of Paul . Compare Poley .
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Pavilly (Seine‐Maritime, France).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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