Brief Life History of James
When James Spracher was born in 1838, in Burke, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob Spracher, was 26 and his mother, Lucretia Ritter, was 21.
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1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an agent derivative of German and Middle High German sprechen ‘to speak’, an occupational name for a poet, a reciter, a supporter in legal trial, or a public announcer. Compare Spraker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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