Brief Life History of Frank Pierce
When Frank Pierce Waldron was born in 1854, in District 1181, Pierce, Georgia, United States, his father, George Washington Sylvester Waldron, was 41 and his mother, Catherine Keightly Stewart, was 34. He married Charity Caroline Green on 25 December 1877, in Columbia, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 1 Columbia, Columbia, Florida, United States in 1880 and Election Precinct 10 Lake City, Columbia, Florida, United States in 1900. He died on 23 January 1931, in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, United States.
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- Franklin Waldron in household of George W S Waldron, "United States Census, 1870"
- Frank P Waldron, "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993"
- Frank O. Waldron, "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939"
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1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Pierce, Georgia, United States
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 and Irish (Mayo): from the Norman personal name Waleran, Galeran (ancient Germanic Walahram, Old French Galeran(t)), composed of the ancient Germanic elements walh ‘foreigner’ + hrafn ‘raven’. Compare Walraven . In Ireland, where it is common, this name was Gaelicized early as Mac Bhalronta, also later as Mac Bhaildrin and de Bhaldraithe.
English: habitational name from a place in Sussex named Waldron. The placename derives from Old English wald ‘woodland’ + ærn ‘building’.
History: This is the name of a prominent NH family, established there since the 17th century. Richard Walderne (born c. 1615) came to New England from Alchester, Warwickshire, England, c. 1640 and settled at Dover, NH.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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