When James Henry Champion was born on 19 April 1853, in Centreville, Bibb, Alabama, United States, his father, James Robert Champion, was 29 and his mother, Mary Ann Sherbert, was 33. He married Lavena Syrena Shuttlesworth on 7 October 1874, in Bibb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lambert, Quitman, Mississippi, United States in 1920 and Beat 3, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States in 1930. He died on 8 June 1929, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1858: Baylor, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (southern, of Norman origin) and French: from Middle English, Old French campion, champiun, champion ‘athlete’ such as a wrestler or boxer; also ‘warrior hired to do battle in single combat on behalf of others’ (from Late Latin campio, genitive campionis, a derivative of campus ‘plain, field of battle’). The first sense is probably the more usual source of the surname.
English (southern, of Norman origin): habitational name from Old French Champoigne, Champagne, the name of the French province, or from the derived ethnic name champaignon ‘person from Champagne’. Either of these could develop to Champion in Middle English.
French: habitational name from (Le) Champion, the name of several places in various parts of France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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