Joseph S Dewberry

Brief Life History of Joseph S

When Joseph S Dewberry was born in 1839, in Monroe, Tennessee, United States, his father, Felix Dewberry, was 36 and his mother, Rachel Warren, was 39. He married Martha J Irwin on 2 June 1859, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Russellville, Logan, Kentucky, United States in 1880.

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Family Time Line

Joseph S Dewberry
1839–
Martha J Irwin
1840–
Marriage: 2 June 1859
Modenia A. Dewberry
1860–
Charles R. Dewberry
1861–
William F. Dewberry
1865–
David Alexander Dewberry Sr
1868–1952
Leslie Cole Dewberry
1871–1904
Rachel E. Dewberry
1873–

Sources (18)

  • Joseph S Dunbray, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Joseph S Dewberry, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Joseph Alexander, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1846

Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.

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: habitational name, probably a variant of Dewsbury, a habitational name from a place so named in Yorkshire, with loss of the medial s, no doubt reflecting loss of association with the original Yorkshire placename following migration.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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