When Martha James Gaar was born on 6 December 1842, in Madison, Virginia, United States, her father, Andrew Gaar, was 47 and her mother, Mehethalen Ellen Rosser, was 32. She married Thomas Isham Newman on 17 December 1860, in Madison, Madison, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Robertson District, Madison, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Brightwood, Madison, Virginia, United States in 1920. She died after 1920, in Madison, 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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Austrian German: nickname for a person who was ready and willing (to do a task), from Middle High German gar ‘ready, prepared’.
Perhaps also Dutch (Van de Gaar): topographic name from Middle Dutch gader, gaer ‘gate’, in a habitational sense e.g. from De Gader near Hasselt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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