Brief Life History of Lewis Leonard Cleo
When Lewis Leonard Cleo Harper was born on 3 February 1846, in Irwin, Georgia, United States, his father, Lewis Leonard Cleo Harper, was 33 and his mother, Dicey Whitley, was 30. He married Mary Tucker on 29 April 1870, in Irwin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in District 5, Chatham, Georgia, United States in 1880 and Ocilla, Irwin, Georgia, United States in 1900. He died on 11 October 1904, in Irwin, Georgia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Springhill Cemetery, Irwin, Georgia, United States.
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- Lewis Harper in household of Lewis Harper, "United States Census, 1860"
- Lewis L C Harper, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Lewis Luke Cleo Harper, "Find A Grave Index"
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1854
Historical Boundaries 1854: Coffee, Georgia, United States
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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