When Levi Cackley was born about 1844, in Marlinton, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States, his father, Levi Cackley Jr., was 27 and his mother, Ann Sharp, was 28. He lived in Pocahontas, Virginia, United States in 1840. He died in West 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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from Cockley Cley (Norfolk), Cockley Hill in Kirkheaton (Yorkshire), or possibly Cookley (Suffolk).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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