Brief Life History of Thomas E
When Thomas E Shaw was born on 27 August 1854, in Georgia, United States, his father, James E Shaw, was 22 and his mother, Nancy Ann Caruthers, was 23. He married Maryann Amelia Shattuck on 9 June 1886, in Walker, Georgia, United States. He lived in District 871, Walker, Georgia, United States in 1900 and LaFayette, Walker, Georgia, United States in 1920. He died on 7 June 1927, in Walker, Georgia, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Thomas Shaw, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas E Shaw - Government record: birth-name: Thos E. Shaw
- T E Shaw, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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