When George Wesley Pickel was born in 1824, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Christian Pickel Jr., was 48 and his mother, Elizabeth Lewis, was 40. He died in 1917, at the age of 93.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
South German: metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used pickaxes or a nickname for a gambler; a variant of Bickel .
Dutch: from Middle Dutch pickel ‘leg’, hence a nickname for someone with long or otherwise remarkable legs, or a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Pikelj, Pikel, or Pikl: from pikelj, a word of South German origin (see above and Bickel ), denoting a kind of pick used by miners.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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