Brief Life History of Flurada
When Flurada Dew was born in 1856, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Dew, was 47 and her mother, Susan Leach, was 39. She died in her hometown.
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Eu in Seine-Maritime, France, with fused preposition d(e). See Doe 2.
English: topographic name, perhaps from Middle English deudeaw, dywe ‘dew’, probably used in the sense ‘damp ground’ or ‘dew pond’.
Welsh: nickname meaning ‘stout, thickset’, Welsh tew, a soft-mutated form of dew. In some cases the name may arise from a North Welsh pronunciation of du ‘black, dark, swarthy’; however, this is normally Anglicized as Dye . See also Dee .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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