Brief Life History of James
When James Greenhaw was born in 1856, in Newton, Arkansas, United States, his father, Ephraim Barton Greenhaw, was 38 and his mother, Rebecca Etheridge, was 35. He married Mary B Cheatham on 13 March 1878, in Newton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in White Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Big Creek Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died on 7 January 1937, in Severs Township, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Okmulgee, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States.
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- James B Greenhaw, "United States Census, 1930"
- James Sreenham, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- James Greenhaw, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868
Okmulgee has been the capital of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation since 1868, when it was founded following the Civil War. The Creek Nation began restoring order after that conflict. They had allied with the Confederacy during the war and needed to make a new peace treaty with the United States afterward as a result...For seven years, beginning December 20, 1870, Okmulgee was the seat of government of all of what would become the State of Oklahoma, except for the Panhandle.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of English Greenhow or Greenhalgh .
Possibly an altered form of German Grünhag(e), a variant of Grünhagen (see Gruenhagen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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