When George Melvin Yoakum was born in 1847, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Aaron Alvice Yoakum, was 44 and his mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Doak, was 34. He married Louisa Welsh on 27 February 1870, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Civil District 3, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 7 February 1918, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Fincastle, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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