When Josiah Newman was born on 17 May 1806, in York, South Carolina, United States, his father, Jonathan Newman Jr., was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth McElwee, was 32. He married Edith C. Manion on 11 February 1828, in Allen, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Pilot Knob Magisterial District, Simpson, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 6 November 1893, in Simpson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Louisburg, Franklin, North Carolina, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
"On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called ""the rising."" The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it."
In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
English (southern): nickname from Middle English newe ‘new’ (i.e. newly arrived or newly appointed) + man ‘man’ (Old English nīwe + mann).
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘new man, newcomer’, for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neumann , Swedish Nyman , Polish Nowak , Czech or Slovak Novák, Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Novak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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