Brief Life History of Jessie Emma
When Jessie Emma James was born on 13 February 1833, in England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Christopher James, was 35 and her mother, Felicity Hannah Thomas, was 34. She married Thomas Bond Smallwood on 16 November 1864, in McHenry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Greenfield, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States for about 30 years. She died on 20 June 1903, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Jessie Smallwood in household of Thomas Smallwood, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jessie E. James, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Jessie James Smolwood, "Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907"
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1834
Historical Boundaries: 1834: Milwaukee, Michigan Territory, United States 1836: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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