Brief Life History of Emanuel
When Emanuel Oswald was born on 15 October 1818, in Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina, United States, his father, John George Oswald Jr, was 31 and his mother, Mary Kissiah Free, was 31. He married Reuhama Lewie on 20 April 1843, in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Lexington, South Carolina, United States in 1860 and Gilbert, Lexington, South Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 24 January 1897, in Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Em'L Osewalt, "United States Census, 1880"
- Emanuel Oswald, "Find A Grave Index"
- Emanuel Oswalt, "United States Census, 1850"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1822 · Slave Rebellion
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Fife and Lanarkshire), northern English, German, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from an Old English personal name composed of the elements ōs ‘god’ + weald ‘power’. In the Middle English period, this fell together with the less common Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr. The name was introduced to Germany from England, as a result of the fame of Saint Oswald, a 7th-century king of Northumbria, whose deeds were reported by Celtic missionaries to southern Germany. The name was also borne by a 10th-century English saint of Danish parentage, who was important as a monastic reformer. Veneration of Saint Oswald, the king, spread from the German lands to the neighbouring Slavic lands as well. The surname in the (German) spelling Oswald is thus also found especially in Czechia and Slovakia, while in North America it also absorbed various Slavic forms (see 3 below).
Irish (Down): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa (see Hussey 1).
Americanized form of Slovenian, Slovak, and Czech Osvald, Slovenian and Slovak Ožvald or Ozvald, and probably also of Slovenian Ožbolt: from vernacular forms of the German personal name Oswald, of Old English origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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