Brief Life History of Francis Marion
When Francis Marion Cash was born on 16 October 1847, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, his father, Reuben Moses Cash, was 33 and his mother, Pheletia White Taylor, was 28. He married Eliza Willie Rainey on 22 August 1868, in Smith Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Whiteville Township, Cleveland, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Jefferson, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died on 27 March 1920, in Pine Bluff, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Bellwood Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States.
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- Marion Cash, "United States Census, 1870"
- Frank M Cash, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Francis Marion Cash, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English (Cheshire and Lancashire): variant of Case , or, alternatively, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes, from Middle English cashe ‘box, chest to keep wares in’ (Old French casse).
Irish (Tipperary and Wexford): in Ireland, Cash and Cass may derive from the epithet cas ‘curly-haired’, or be a variant of Casey . However, it is more likely to be the English surname.
Americanized form of German Kirch or Kirsch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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