Brief Life History of William Pleasant
When William Pleasant Dean was born on 2 June 1838, in Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States, his father, Griffith Dean, was 44 and his mother, Mary Jane "Polly" Farris, was 33. He married Mary Etta Pickens on 26 December 1866, in Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Beat 1, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years and Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States in 1910. He died on 10 January 1919, at the age of 80, and was buried in Harmony Methodist Church Cemetery, Iuka, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States.
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- Pleasant Dean in household of Griffith Dean, "United States Census, 1850"
- W. P. Dean, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
- William Pleasant Dean, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.
English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .
English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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