When John Workman was born on 8 October 1789, in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States, his father, Jacob Workman, was 50 and his mother, Elizabeth Wyckoff, was 39. He married Lydia Ann Bilyeu on 11 March 1809, in Monroe, Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 15 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Overton, Tennessee, United States in 1830 and Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 21 April 1855, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
by Thelma C. Anderson "Jacob WORKMAN (#6), son of Abraham WORKMAN (#1) and Anetje SMITH; born about 1740 in Somerset County, New Jersey; was a sharp-shooter in the Revolutionary War having enlisted …
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