Brief Life History of Mathew
When Mathew Nutt Jr was born in 1834, in Decatur, Georgia, United States, his father, Matthew Nutt, was 28 and his mother, Melvina, was 34. He married Anna Jones on 15 December 1859, in Decatur, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 17 December 1862, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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- Mathew Nutt, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Mathew Nutt, "Find A Grave Index"
- M. Nutt in entry for Matthew Green Nutt, "Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927"
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World Events (6)
1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1842
The City of Richmond was officially part of Henrico County until 1842, when it became a fully independent city.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English note, nute, notte, nutte ‘nut’ (Old English hnutu), perhaps used for a man with a round head or a brown complexion.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a nut-tree, from Middle English note, nute, notte, nutte ‘nut’ (Old English hnutu), used also to denote the tree.
Irish (Ulster, especially Derry): shortened form of McNutt 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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