Brief Life History of Fredonia Victoria Jane
When Fredonia Victoria Jane Turnbow was born on 27 December 1856, in Farmington, Graves, Kentucky, United States, her father, Riley Lafayette Turnbow, was 22 and her mother, Permilia Wilmurt Cochran, was 18. She married Thomas Abram Mitchell on 29 December 1881. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Dyer, Gibson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 5, Madison, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 20 May 1948, in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Dyer, Gibson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Donico Mitchell, "United States Census, 1920"
- Fredonia Turnbow Mitchell, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
- Friedonia V. Turnbow in entry for Carlisle Mitchell and Adaline Vohees, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Alsatian Dürrenbach: habitational name from Dürrenbach in Bas-Rhin (Alsace, France), a placename meaning ‘dry stream’. Compare Turnbaugh , Turnbo , Turnbough , and Turnpaugh .
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Dürnbach (see Durnbaugh ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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