When James Allison Shawver was born in 1827, in Fayette, Virginia, United States, his father, Sebastion Boston Shawver, was 36 and his mother, Mary Lydia McClung, was 34. He married Miriam Taylor Woods on 8 June 1843, in Fayette, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Fayette, Fayette, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Kanawha, Virginia, United States in 1860.
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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.
Americanized form of Flemish and Dutch De Schouwer ‘inspector (of market weights and measures)’ (see Shaver ).
Americanized form of French (mainly Lorraine) and South German Schauber, possibly a derivative of Schaub or perhaps a variant of Schubert .
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