When James Firney Westbrook was born on 25 February 1857, in Louisiana, United States, his father, John Henry Westbrook, was 28 and his mother, Sarah E Pyle, was 25. He married Mozzelar Bain on 2 May 1878, in Miller, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lafayette, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Sulphur Township, Miller, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 12 May 1902, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Doddridge, Miller, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1859: Lafayette, Arkansas, United States 1875: Miller, Arkansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English (southeastern): habitational name from any of various places called Westbrook, for example in Berkshire, Kent, and the Isle of Wight, from Old English west ‘west, western’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’.
Americanized form of Dutch Westbroek: habitational name from a place so named near Utrecht.
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