Brief Life History of Evastus Manuel
When Evastus Manuel Denning was born in June 1858, in Goldsboro, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, his father, Uriah Jake Denning, was 13 and his mother, Elizabeth Stafford, was 21. He married Bethelda Elizabeth Norris on 2 October 1879, in Wayne, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Westbrooks Township, Sampson, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Goldsboro Township, Wayne, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. He died on 4 December 1920, in Goldsboro, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, Wayne, North Carolina, United States.
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- Erastus M Deming in household of Mariah Deming, "United States Census, 1870"
- E M Denning, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- E. M. Denning, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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1862 · Battle of Roanoke Island
On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Denning, a derivative of Old English Dynna, a name of uncertain origin, but perhaps derived from dunn ‘brown, dun-colored’.
Irish (northern): variant of Dineen .
German: habitational name from Denning in Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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