When William Wortham Pool was born on 10 April 1841, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Samuel Pool, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Rose Wortham, was 22. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Alice Cornelia Perdue. He lived in Manchester, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States for about 40 years and Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 26 February 1922, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, 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.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
English: variant of Poole or Paul .
Jewish (from the Netherlands) and Dutch: ethnic name for someone from Poland.
Americanized form of German Puhl .
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