Brief Life History of James M
When James M Beaver was born in 1841, in Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States, his father, Henry B Beaver, was 47 and his mother, Amelia Miller, was 43. He married Nettie Black on 19 August 1863, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years.
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- James Bicher in household of H B Bicher, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: James M Beaver - Published information: birth-name: James M Beaver
- J M Beiber, "Mississippi, Tippah County Marriages, 1858-1979"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Belvoir in Leicestershire, pronounced beever (/bi:və/), so named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + veïr, voir ‘to see’, i.e. a place with a fine view. This name may also be derived from any of several places in France called Beauvoir, for example in Manche, Somme, and Seine-Maritime, all of which have the same etymology as above.
English: nickname from Middle English bever, bevre (Old English beofor) ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal. The existence of patronymic forms such as Beaverson suggest that this may also have been a personal name.
Native American (Creek): from a translation into English of the Muscogee Creek clan name Echaswvlke (‘Beaver clan’), derived from a word meaning ‘beaver’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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