When Thomas Baxter Queen was born on 18 December 1857, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, his father, Robert Henry Queen, was 25 and his mother, Nancy Stroup, was 24. He married Sarah Jane Sutton on 11 January 1880, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Webster, Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Dillsboro Township, Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1900. He died on 14 February 1923, in Dillsboro, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Locust, Stanly, North Carolina, United States.
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On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish: shortened form of McQueen .
English: from the Middle English female personal name Quene, sometimes a pet form of Quenill (Old English Cwēnhild, from cwēn ‘queen’ + hild ‘battle’). Early examples of the name are mainly from southern England, especially Sussex, but its currency in late medieval northern England has also been suggested by records from Yorkshire.
English: possibly a nickname from Middle English quene ‘woman; harlot; crone’ (Old English cwēn), but this is less likely than 2 to have given rise to a hereditary surname.
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