When Robert Harwell Alston was born on 21 September 1848, in Alabama, United States, his father, William Jeffreys Alston, was 47 and his mother, Harriet H Harwell, was 33. He married K Adella Cannon on 4 December 1869, in Calhoun, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in District 1378, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died in 1916, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in RoseHill Cemetery, Austell, Cobb, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1853: Fulton, Georgia, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
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