Brief Life History of Pierce Butler
When Pierce Butler Harbour was born in 1860, in United States, his father, Burwell Strange Harbour, was 38 and his mother, Josephine Bale, was 25. He married Carrie Ross on 14 January 1886, in Hamblen, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 6 December 1942, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 82.
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- P B Harbour, "United States Census, 1920"
- Pierce B Harbour, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Pierce Butler Harbour, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: nickname or topographic name for someone who kept or lived at a lodging-house, from late Old English herebeorg ‘shelter, lodging’ (from here ‘army’ + beorg ‘shelter’). The change of -er- to -ar- is a regular phonetic process in Middle English. Compare Harbach .
French: variant of Arbour . This form of the surname is virtually non-existing in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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