When Edward Augustus Flesher was born on 13 November 1859, in Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, William Henry Flesher, was 23 and his mother, Mary Ann Boylan, was 23. He married Isa D Gum on 24 March 1889, in Missouri, United States. He lived in Myers Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Franklin Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 April 1946, in Spickard, Grundy, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Spickard Masonic Cemetery, Spickard, Grundy, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historic Boundaries: 1871: Grundy, Missouri, United States
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.
English: occupational name for a butcher, from Middle English fles(c)her, flesho(u)r ‘butcher’, an agent derivative of flesh ‘meat’, or from Middle English fleshheuer, fleshewer ‘butcher’, a compound of flesh ‘meat’ + heuer ‘cutter’. This surname has sometimes been confused with Fletcher .
Americanized form of German Fleischer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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