When John Thomas Pirtle was born on 25 December 1876, in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Pirtle II, was 29 and his mother, Frances L Cosby, was 33. He married Stevie Pipkin on 18 June 1896, in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ward Six, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, United States in 1910 and Shelby, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 17 August 1956, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79.
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When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Americanized form, apparently altered via the intermediate form Pirkle , of German Birkle or Birkel or Berkel . The surname Pirtle is also common among African Americans. Compare Purtle and Pyrtle .
History: The majority of the Pirtles, Purtles, and Pyrtles (and also at least some of the Pirkles) trace their origin to Hans Jacob Berkel or Birckel or Birkle from Germany and to his namesake son who settled in PA in the beginning of the 18th century. The exact original form of their surname is not known, but various sources agree that it was spelled with k, not t.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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