When Samuel B Howard was born on 4 September 1852, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Louis Howard, was 46 and his mother, Leah Lewis Swann, was 34. He married Laura Elizabeth Shrader on 31 May 1892, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 3, Sevier, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 January 1917, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Cummings Chapel Cemetery, Sevier, Tennessee, United States.
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Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
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