When Joseph Harrison Weems was born on 27 November 1847, in Blount, Alabama, United States, his father, James W Weems, was 26 and his mother, Teresa Posey, was 36. He married Nancy Elizabeth Key about 1870, in Walker, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Pleasant Field, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1900. He died on 10 June 1916, in Cordova, Walker, Alabama, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Goodsprings, Walker, Alabama, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Dent Walker, Alabama, United States 1885: Cordova, Walker, Alabama, United States
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.
Scottish: variant of Wemyss , reflecting the usual pronunciation of that name.
History: David Weems (Wemyss) emigrated from Scotland to Herring Bay, Anne Arundel County, MD, some time before 1722. Mason Locke Weems, born near Herring Bay in 1759, was a clergyman who wrote a biography of George Washington, in which the first account of the cherry-tree story appeared.
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