When Nancy Charity Weaver was born in April 1872, in Washington, Alabama, United States, her father, Joseph Weaver, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Wilkerson, was 34. She married Jacob Magee Lewis in 1890, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 11 Sims Chapel, Washington, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Sims Chapel, Washington, Alabama, United States in 1930. She died on 5 March 1950, in Citronelle, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in New Mount Ararat Cemetery, Washington, Alabama, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1879: Washington, Alabama, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).
English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire, now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’, for example German Weber , Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach , Hungarian Takács (see Takacs ), and Slovenian Tkalec, Tekavec or Veber .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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