When James H. Yoakum was born on 20 May 1878, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, his father, George Melvin Yoakum, was 31 and his mother, Louisa Welsh, was 28. He married Parkey Ann Wilson about 1900, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 1, Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1950. He died on 8 July 1957, in La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fincastle, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Americanized form of German Jochem or Joachim . This surname is also found among African Americans. Compare Yoachum , Yoakam , Yocum , Yokem , and Yokum .
History: The majority of the Yoakums trace their origin to Johann Matthäus Yoakum or Jochem (possibly Joachim), born c. 1698 in Germany, died 1783 in KY or VA. His descendants bear various forms of the surname, including Yoachum, Yocom, Yocum, Yokem, Yokom, and Yokum. However, several of these (and of other possible) forms are also borne by the descendants of various other immigrants from Germany.
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