When John Shearer was born on 8 August 1792, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, his father, Robert Findlay Shearer, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Kendall, was 24. He married Mary Green on 27 April 1815, in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Watauga Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States in 1850. He died on 2 January 1858, in Watauga, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Perkinsville, Watauga, North Carolina, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Scottish and English: occupational name for a reaper of standing crops, a sheep shearer, or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherer(e) ‘shearer’, an agent derivative of Middle English schere(n) ‘to shear’. Middle English schere denoted shears and scissors of all sizes. Compare Sherman .
Americanized form of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Scherer or Scherrer , cognates of 1 above. Compare Sharrer .
Americanized form of German Scheurer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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