When Columbus William Slaughter was born on 2 July 1824, in New Lexington, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, his father, Ezekial Slaughter, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Ann Pendleton, was 22. He married Susanna Frances Willingham on 20 November 1848, in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Anderson, Texas, United States in 1860 and Texas, United States in 1870. He died on 26 June 1889, in Postoak, Jack, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Post Oak Cemetery, Jacksboro, Jack, Texas, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Historical Boundaries: 1826: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English:
in East Anglia and Essex, an occupational name from Middle English slaughter ‘butcher’, a derivative of Middle English slaught ‘butchery’ + er, or from a shortened form of the synonymous Middle English slaughterer, a derivative of slaughter ‘butchery’ + -er. Compare Slater 2.
in Sussex and Surrey a habitational name denoting residence at one or other of several minor placenames such as Slaughter Bridge in Slinfold, Slaughter Bridge in Shipley, Slaughterford (Farm) in Itchingfield, the lost Slaughters in Billingshurst (all Sussex), and Slaughterwicks Barn in Charlwood (Surrey). The names may derive from Middle English slo(gh) ‘sloe, blackthorn’ (Old English slāh) + tre ‘tree’ (Old English trēow), or from Middle English sloghtre, sloghtere ‘slough, mire, muddy place’, or perhaps ‘deep river valley’, or ‘ditch’ (Old English slōhtre). The latter is certainly the etymology of Upper and Lower Slaughter (Gloucestershire) and The Slaughter in English Bicknor (Gloucestershire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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