When James Burl Ishee Sr was born on 15 May 1860, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Samuel Cooper Ishee, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Martin, was 36. He married Sallie Frances Williamson about 1886, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Taylorsville, Smith, Mississippi, United States in 1910 and Beat 2, Smith, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. He died on 31 October 1931, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Shelby Cemetery, Shelby, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States.
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Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Altered form of Swiss German Ischi, Ischey, or Ischy, variants of Isch which occur mainly in the border area between French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland.
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