Joseph H Foote

Brief Life History of Joseph H

When Joseph H Foote was born on 24 February 1870, in Newtown Monthly Meeting, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Gideon Foote Jr., was 35 and his mother, Julia A Webb, was 29. He lived in Newton Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 6 December 1872, in Newton Township, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 2.

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Family Time Line

Gideon Foote Jr.
1834–1907
Julia A Webb
1840–1909
John Milo Foote
1861–1950
Zebulon Foote
1861–1864
Florence A Foote
1865–1920
Frank C Foote
1867–1880
Joseph H Foote
1870–1872
Emory Clinton Foote
1873–1950
Augusta Louise Foote
1877–
Bert Leland Foote
1880–1929

Sources (3)

  • Joseph Foote in household of Gideon Foote, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Joseph H Foote - birth: 24 February 1870; Newton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Legacy NFS Source: Joseph H Foote - census: 12 August 1870;

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1872 · The Amnesty Act

A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.

English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.

English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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