Daniel Boone Cherry

Brief Life History of Daniel Boone

When Daniel Boone Cherry was born on 10 April 1869, in Clay, Tennessee, United States, his father, Cary Stewart "Bud" Cherry, was 32 and his mother, Marenda Alma Hestand, was 30. He married Alice Isabel Billingsley on 24 March 1895, in Clay, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 3, Marion, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Clay, Tennessee, United States in 1920. He died on 10 November 1928, in Moss, Clay, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Moss, Clay, Tennessee, United States.

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Daniel Boone Cherry
1869–1928
Alice Isabel Billingsley
1876–1939
Marriage: 24 March 1895

Sources (8)

  • Daniel B Cherry, "United States Census, 1920"
  • D B Cherry, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Daniel Boon Cherry, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"

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World Events (8)

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.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: from Middle English chirie, cherye ‘cherry’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries, or possibly a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks.

Probably in some cases a translation name of German Kirsch .

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

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