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Scruggs was born to slave parents Henry and Betsey Scruggs in 1855, in Buckingham County, Virginia, where he spent almost his entire life. [1] [2] A film exists of him performing the folk ballad “Little Log Cabin Round the Lane” in a minstrel style. The footage was taken by the Fox Movietone News on November 8, 1928, in Powhatan, Virginia.
Ethel(d)reda Malte (sometimes referred to as Audrey; c. 1527/35 – c. 1559) was an English courtier of the Tudor period who was reputed to be an illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII. She was the wife of poet and writer John Harington, prior to Isabella Markham. Contemporary reports claim she was fathered by Henry VIII. [1]
The historical accuracy of many of the aspects of the John Henry legend are subject to debate. [1] [2] According to researcher Scott Reynolds Nelson, the actual John Henry was born in 1848 in New Jersey and died of silicosis, a complication of his workplace, and not due to proper exhaustion of work.
As a slaveholding family, many members of the Weaver family fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, such as Captain Elbert Weaver (1841–1935), who was Montraville's first son, and Private Abraham Weaver (1832–1913), who deserted in northern Georgia after his unit was slaughtered during Wheeler's October 1863 Raid.
Henry Golding and his wife, Liv Lo, have welcomed their second child. ... Teigen, who married John Legend in 2013, gave birth to the couple’s rainbow baby, daughter Esti Maxine, on January 13. ...
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Henry Paulson (of the Barrington, Ill., Paulsons) was CEO of Goldman Sachs Group from 1999 to 2006 and Treasury secretary from 2006 to 2009. During his last year of public service, Hank was ...