When Louis Robert Hamer was born on 15 September 1850, in Dillon, Dillon, South Carolina, United States, his father, Philip M. Hamer, was 29 and his mother, Catherine Elizabeth Thomas, was 26. He married Mary "Mollie" Susan Thompson on 23 January 1879, in Marion, Marion, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in South Carolina, United States in 1870 and Thompson Township, Robeson, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. He died on 15 December 1914, in Marion Township, Marion, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Asbury Memorial Church Cemetery, Raynham, Robeson, North Carolina, United States.
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In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Rochdale, Lancashire, named Hamer, from Old English hamor ‘cliff’.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Amer 3 with prosthetic H-.
Dutch: from hamer ‘hammer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hammers or a user of a hammer, for example a blacksmith.
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