Brief Life History of Alexander Palmer
When Alexander Palmer Salisbury was born in November 1861, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Lackey Salisbury, was 43 and his mother, Margaret Justice, was 33. He married Mary Turner on 21 May 1882, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cass Township, Texas, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 18 February 1938, in Martin, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Jonah Webb Cemetery, Eastern, Floyd, Kentucky, United States.
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- Parmer Sailsberg, "United States Census, 1910"
- Alexandria P Salisbury, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Alexander Palmer Salisbury, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1955"
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1862 · Battle of Perryville
On October 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville took place between the Army of Ohio and the Army of Mississippi. It was the bloodiest battle on Kentucky soil. The Union lost around four thousand people and the Confederates lost around three thousand people. This was about one fifth of those that fought.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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