When Francis Marion Cheney Jr. was born on 2 March 1859, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, his father, Dr. Francis Marion "Frank" Cheney, was 37 and his mother, Eliza Ann Callaway, was 22. He married Louise Durham on 23 December 1885, in Navarro, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in District 420, Newton, Georgia, United States in 1880 and Corsicana, Navarro, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 September 1915, in Navarro, Texas, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro, Texas, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: variant of Chaney with the same etymology as in 2 below.
French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’ (from chesne ‘oak’), or a habitational name from any of several places called (Le) Cheney, e.g. in Haute-Savoie, named with this word. Compare Chesney .
French Canadian: altered form of French Chesnay or Chenay, topographic names with the same meaning and etymology as in 2 above, or habitational names from (Le) Chesnay or (Le) Chenay, names of several places in the northwestern part of France, based on Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’. Compare Chenette and Chenier 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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