Brief Life History of Emaline Campbell
When Emaline Campbell Watkins was born on 9 October 1833, in Campbell, Georgia, United States, her father, Benjamin Templeton Watkins, was 36 and her mother, Hannah Lassetter, was 24. She married Henry Monroe Head on 28 February 1850. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Fairplay, Douglas, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Gorman, Eastland, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 23 May 1927, in Douglas, Georgia, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in County Line Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Whitesburg, Carroll, Georgia, United States.
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- Emaline C Head in household of Hannah L Wilson, "United States Census, 1900"
- Emeline Head, "Georgia, Deaths, 1914-1927"
- Emilin Watkin in entry for J A Barron, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Watkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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