Brief Life History of Matilda
When Matilda Sheriff was born on 11 January 1833, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, her father, George Washington Sheriff, was 37 and her mother, Matilda Underwood, was 39. She married Garnett Stonecypher in 1853, in Stevens, Hall, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 August 1897, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Stephens, Georgia, United States.
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- Matilda Stonesipher in household of Garnet Stonesipher, "United States Census, 1870"
- Matilda Sheriff Stonecypher, "Find A Grave Index"
- Matilda Sheriff in entry for Melissa Jane Stonecypher Hayes, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942"
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1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
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.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name or nickname from Middle English shirreve, sher(r)eve, sheref(fe) ‘sheriff, officer of the Crown’ (Old English scīrgerēfa, from scīr ‘shire, county’ + (ge)rēfa ‘reeve’), literally the reeve (i.e. steward) of a shire. Compare Reeve .
Muslim (mainly Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia): variant of Sharif . In Sierra Leone and Liberia this name is found mainly among the Mandinka people. Compare Sirleaf .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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