When Edgar Nix Shaw was born on 29 May 1875, in Walker, Georgia, United States, his father, George Washington Shaw, was 37 and his mother, Emeline A. Adams, was 27. He married Mary A. Jolley on 20 December 1898, in Walker, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in District 871, Walker, Georgia, United States in 1900 and LaFayette, Walker, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 November 1958, in Burke, Georgia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in LaFayette, Walker, Georgia, United States.
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The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
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