When Lucinda Ellen Spurgeon was born on 11 July 1838, in Preston, West Virginia, United States, her father, John William Spurgeon, was 25 and her mother, Phoebe Mitchell Smith, was 20. She married John William Braithwaite on 13 November 1856, in Doddridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Liberty Township, Clay, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Ohio Township, Saline, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died on 25 December 1918, in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States.
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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.
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English (Essex): apparently a variant of Spurden, itself a possible nickname from Middle English spore, spure (Old English spora, spura) ‘spur’ or the derived verb sporen ‘to urge, incite’ + daunce ‘dance’. Alternatively, the first element may be spurnen, spornen ‘stumble, trip, kick’ or ‘spurn, reject’ with assimilation of the first -n- giving Spordaunce. However, the change in the medial consonant of Spurgeon is difficult to explain without an intermediary Spurdion (or something similar), which is not on record and would be an irregular development of Spurden. The name may have been influenced by confusion with Pridgeon and Spridgeon but the evidence for this is slight.
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