Brief Life History of George Cumberland
When George Cumberland Sperry was born on 13 September 1848, in Perry Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, his father, John Sperry, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Samantha Winkler, was 31. He married Mary Weeks Stewart on 10 August 1870, in Lawrence, Elizabeth Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Ironton, Upper Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 September 1925, in Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Upper Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States.
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- George Sperry in household of Sarah S Sperry, "United States Census, 1860"
- George W. Sperry, and Mary Stewart, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- George C Sperry, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Leicestershire): from the early Middle English personal name Sperry (Old Norse Sperrir, perhaps originally a nickname for a tall man, from Old Norse sperra ‘spar, beam, stake’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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