Brief Life History of John H.
John H. Wagner was born in October 1869, in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States. He married Kate Evelyn Becton on 8 May 1890, in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Beat 3, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States in 1900. He died in 1929, at the age of 60, and was buried in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States.
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- John H Wagner, "United States Census, 1900"
- John H. Wagner, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
- John H Wagner, "United States Census, 1910"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1877 · Mississippi State Board of Health is Created
In 1877, the Mississippi State Board of Health was established to protect and advance health throughout the state. There are several different categories that fall under their watch such as disease, environment, injury, standard care, shots, keep records, and more.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Wägner): occupational name for a carter and (in some dialects) a cartwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wagen ‘cart, wagon’, German Wagen. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Britain, Poland, and Denmark. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wágner and Vágner. In Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia it is also found in the Slavicized form Vagner . Compare Wagener , Waggener , and Wagoner .
Dutch and perhaps also English: occupational name from Middle Dutch waghenaer ‘carter’ (compare 1 above). The Dutch word is not known to have been borrowed into English before 1600 but the surname Wagner is recorded in Norfolk (England) from 1379, perhaps a substitution of the Dutch word for Middle English wainer. Compare Waggoner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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