Brief Life History of Kenneth
When Kenneth Yelverton was born on 17 October 1806, in Marion, South Carolina, United States, his father, Gideon B. Yelverton, was 21 and his mother, Nancy Braswell, was 31. He married Dicy Pollock in 1825. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Dale, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 November 1867, in Newton, Dale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 61.
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- Kinneth Yelvester, "United States Census, 1850"
- Kenneth Yelverton, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Kent Yelverton in entry for William B. Yelverton, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1819 · Alabama Becomes a State
Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.
1824
Historical Boundaries: 1824: Dale, Alabama, United States
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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