When William Henry "Bud" Cornwell was born on 24 December 1845, in Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, his father, Richard Henry Cornwell, was 29 and his mother, Mary Freeman, was 24. He married Nancy Jane Dockery on 3 September 1893, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 23 January 1922, in Hiwassee, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hanging Dog Baptist Church Cemetery, Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English:
habitational name from Cornwell in Oxfordshire, named from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
variant of Cornwall or Cornhill; in southeastern England mainly a habitational name from Cornhill in London but elsewhere alternatively from Cornhill (Northumberland) or one of the many minor places so called, often becoming Cornell .
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