Brief Life History of Silas
When Silas Potts was born in 1852, in Brandywine Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States, his father, Jonathan W Potts, was 37 and his mother, Mary Polly Gant, was 36. He married Mary Jane Gratner on 28 December 1874, in Jasper, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Iroquois Township, Newton, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Newton Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died in 1930, at the age of 78, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Brook, Newton, Indiana, United States.
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- Silas Potts in household of William M Nolan, "United States Census, 1870"
- Silas Potts, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Silas Potts, "Find A Grave Index"
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1853
Oldest grave seen in the memorial list
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Pott , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, in the former case denoting a Pot(t)'s son, relative or servant.
Americanized form of German Botz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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