When Nancy J Warden was born on 12 September 1822, in Pulaski, Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Warden, was 20 and her mother, Sarah Martha Black, was 20. She married William Decatur Carper on 8 December 1853, in Raleigh, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Raleigh, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Shady Spring, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1870. She died on 26 March 1886, in Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Beckley, Raleigh, West Virginia, 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.
English and Scottish: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Anglo-Norman French wardein, Old French gardein ‘one who keeps guard, a warden’, i.e. a gate-keeper, porter, or sentinel.
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Kent, Northumerland, and Northamptonshire, called Warden, from Old English weard ‘watch’ + dūn ‘hill’. Compare Wardlaw and Wardle 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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