Brief Life History of James Herbert
When James Herbert Yelverton was born in April 1850, in Lowndes, Georgia, United States, his father, James B Yelvington, was 32 and his mother, Eliza Harvey, was 17. He married Mary Frances Strange on 22 March 1888, in Putnam, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Putnam, Florida, United States for about 5 years and St. Johns, Florida, United States in 1900. He died on 17 September 1926, in Hastings, St. Johns, Florida, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in West View Cemetery, Palatka, Putnam, Florida, United States.
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- James Yelverton, "Florida State Census, 1885"
- James H. Yelverton, "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957"
- James Herbert Yelverton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861
Florida has had 6 Constitutions since it became a state. The first Constitution was drafted in Saint Joseph, now known as Port St. Joe. Presently Florida is governed by the Constitution of 1968.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): habitational name from either of two places called Yelverton, in Norfolk or Devon. Medieval examples of the surname are from the Norfolk place, but the modern surname in Britain is associated mainly with Devon, where the earliest record of the surname is found in 1761, and is probably a substitution for Elford , an earlier form of the Devon placename. The Devon place, a hamlet in Buckland Monachorum, is not officially on record as Yelverton until the 19th century, when the Great Western Railway so named the station it built there in 1859. It is a dialect pronunciation of Elverton, which is first recorded in 1765 as an extended form of its medieval name Elford + -ton ‘town’. The Norfolk placename is recorded as Ailuertuna in 1086, and probably derives from the Old English personal name Æthelfrith or Geldfrith + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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