When Winnie Lawson Newman was born on 23 June 1843, in Haralson, Georgia, United States, her father, Jesse G. Newman, was 37 and her mother, Rebecca Mangum, was 38. She married William Jasper Fincher on 19 March 1878, in Haralson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Felton, Haralson, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Steadman, Haralson, Georgia, United States in 1910. She died on 16 September 1911, in Haralson, Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Poplar Springs Cemetery, Haralson, Georgia, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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.
English (southern): nickname from Middle English newe ‘new’ (i.e. newly arrived or newly appointed) + man ‘man’ (Old English nīwe + mann).
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘new man, newcomer’, for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neumann , Swedish Nyman , Polish Nowak , Czech or Slovak Novák, Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Novak .
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