When Lemuel T. Tankersley was born on 19 May 1824, in Gilmer, Georgia, United States, his father, Henry Tankersley, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Nannie Brock, was 34. He married Sarah Ann Clark on 25 February 1858, in Gilmer, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Tails Creek, Gilmer, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 14 May 1896, in Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Gilmer, Georgia, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire):
habitational name from Tankersley in Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Thancrēd (genitive Thancrēdes) + Old English lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. This surname has now died out in Britain.
occasional variant of Donkersley, itself a variant of Dunkerley , see Dunkley .
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