When Isabelle Elizabeth Newman was born on 2 May 1846, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James M Newman, was 47 and her mother, Isabelle Rankin, was 47. She married James Montgomery Peck on 12 December 1871, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Civil District 9, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 4, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 3 July 1925, in Jefferson City, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mount Horeb Cemetery, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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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