Matilda Jeffcoat

Femaleabout 1865–1865

Brief Life History of Matilda

When Matilda Jeffcoat was born about 1865, in Lexington, South Carolina, United States, her father, Samuel Wesley Jeffcoat Sr., was 23 and her mother, Rachel S Amaker, was 25. She died in 1865, at the age of 1.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Wesley Jeffcoat Sr.
1843–1926
Rachel S Amaker
1841–1924
Harriett Georganne Jeffcoat
1864–1924
Matilda Jeffcoat
1865–1865
Lida Jeffcoat
1870–1870
Henrietta Jeffcoat
1866–1944
William Allen Jeffcoat
1869–1881
Matilda Jeffcoat
1871–
Samuel Jeffcoat
1872–1868
Ida C Jeffcoat
1875–1914
Savannah Lee Jeffcoat
1876–1949
Benjamin J. P. Jeffcoat
1880–1908
Jacob Lowman Jeffcoat
1882–1935
Samuel Wesley Jeffcoat Jr.
1883–1925

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    World Events (3)

    1865

    Age 0

    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

    1865 · The Assassination of a President

    Age 0

    "While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."

    1865 · The Thirteenth Amendment

    Age 0

    The Thirteenth Amendment was created to help abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. It was the first of three Amendments to Reconstruct the country following the Civil War.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Jeffcock, from the personal name Geff (see Jeff ) + the Middle English diminutive suffix -cock(e). Alternatively, from a diminutive of Geva, a pet form of Geneviève. Jevecok became Jevcok, and was then assimilated (with devoicing of /v/ to /f/) to Jeffcock.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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