James Spracher

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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Jacob Spracher
1812–1886
Lucretia Ritter
1817–1893
Patton Ritter Spracher
1836–1882
Addison Spracher
1843–
John Spracher
1837–1923
James Spracher
1838–
Margaret Spangler Spracher
1839–1906
George Michael Spracher
1841–1904
Phoebe Ann Spracher
1843–1893
James David Spracher
1845–1853
Peter Johnston Spracher
1851–1917
Adam Harmon Spracher
1851–1917
James Huddle Spracher
1852–

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    World Events (3)

    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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