Brief Life History of Manerva
When Manerva Fields was born about 1835, in Virginia, United States, her father, Richard T. Fields, was 28 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Garrett, was 29. She married Samuel Hascue Harrison on 7 April 1858, in Russell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Russell, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Moccasin District, Russell, Virginia, United States in 1870.
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- Manerva Harison in household of Samuel H Harison, "United States Census, 1860"
- Marnerva Harrison, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Manerva Fields, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English feldes, plural or possessive of feld ‘arable field, flat open country’. See Field .
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Deschamps .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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