Brief Life History of Thomas Tillman
When Thomas Tillman Storey was born on 27 July 1807, in Georgia, United States, his father, Solomon Thomas Story, was 47 and his mother, Phoebe Ann Brooks, was 44. He married Eliza Desdemona Gibson in 1840, in Lancaster, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Opelika, Russell, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Saville, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States in 1880. He died on 10 March 1895, in Crenshaw, Alabama, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Rocky Mount Cemetery, Highland Home, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States.
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- Thomas Story, "United States Census, 1880"
- Thomas Tillman Story, "Find A Grave Index"
- T T Storey in entry for Lou Dowd, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1811 · The Savannah Riots
A barroom brawl in Savannah on Tuesday, November 12, 1811, had international impact. An American seaman boasted of having joined the crew of a French vessel, likely named La Vengeance. Others became upset at the idea of the American joining a foreign nation and a brawl erupted. The county coroner asked for peace but was beaten with clubs. A second clash occurred the following day when French sailors attacked five American seaman. A day after the second attack, twenty French sailors attacked six Americans. Four of them escaped but two were beaten and stabbed. Jacob Taylor died on the scene and a rigger named Collins died the following day. By Friday, a full scale riot erupted when the French crewmen arrested on murder charges were released. Many were arrested and French ships La Vengeance and La Franchise were burned. In the end, the incident caused disruptions in French-American relations and affected shipping and trade.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Story .
Perhaps also an altered form of Swiss German Störi, a variant of Storer . Compare Story 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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