When Nancy Catherine Ward was born on 19 June 1827, in Randolph, Virginia, United States, her father, Jacob Ward Jr, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Dyer, was 21. She married Elijah H. Chenoweth on 14 December 1845, in Randolph, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Beverly, Randolph, West Virginia, United States for about 40 years and Breeden, Mingo, West Virginia, United States in 1920. She died on 5 May 1921, in Randolph, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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