Pearl M Barrow

Brief Life History of Pearl M

When Pearl M Barrow was born on 27 December 1874, in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States, her father, William Jesse Barrow, was 39 and her mother, Martha Louise Cargile, was 31. She lived in Ward, Allen, Louisiana, United States in 1880. She died on 17 January 1899, in Summerfield, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Summerfield Cemetery, Summerfield, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States.

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John Benjamin Dorsett
1871–1925
Pearl M Barrow
1874–1899

Sources (2)

  • M P Barrow in household of W J Barrow, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: M. P. Barrow - Government record: birth-name: M. P. Barrow

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World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1875 · A New Civil Rights Act

During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

English:

habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe) or Old English beorg, dative beorge (Middle English berwe, barwe) ‘mound, tumulus’, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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