Rufus Lorenzo Few

Brief Life History of Rufus Lorenzo

When Rufus Lorenzo Few was born on 8 January 1851, in Madison, Morgan, Georgia, United States, his father, Joseph Cain Few, was 23 and his mother, Mary Ann Cowden, was 21. He married Martha Cornelia Mattie Stovall on 11 December 1873, in Morgan, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 399, Morgan, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died on 2 March 1919, in Morgan, Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Appalachee Cemetery, Morgan, Georgia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rufus Lorenzo Few
1851–1919
Martha Cornelia Mattie Stovall
1851–1925
Marriage: 11 December 1873
Marshall Cowden Few
1875–
Stovall Cain Few
1875–1961

Sources (10)

  • Rufus L Few, "United States Census, 1910"
  • R L Few, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  • Rufus Lorenzo Few, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1861

Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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 (Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire): perhaps a topographic name from Anglo-Norman French fou ‘beech-tree’, which is recorded also as feu.

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

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