When Lucy Callis was born in 1847, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Henry Callis, was 29 and her mother, Elaisa "Eliza" Steen, was 30. She married Thomas Benjamin Shore on 29 November 1865, in Obion, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Civil District 4, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Rives, Obion, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from the French port of Calais.
Greek: variant of Kallis .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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