Brief Life History of Minor Charles
When Minor Charles Lemmons was born on 17 March 1848, in Upshur, Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Warrick Cameron Lemons, was 21 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Hosaflook, was 15. He married Lenora V. Nola Gould on 21 May 1868, in Upshur, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Lewis, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Banks District, Upshur, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 16 May 1926, in Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Heavner Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, United States.
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- Miner Lemon in household of A W C Lemon, "United States Census, 1860"
- Miner C Lemmons, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- M C Lemons, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Lemon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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