Brief Life History of Virginia F
When Virginia F Kirby was born in 1847, in Macon, Tennessee, United States, her father, Henry Laurence Kirby, was 38 and her mother, Temperance H Ross, was 37. She had at least 1 daughter with Cantes. She lived in Oak Grove Township, Oregon, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Mammoth Spring, Fulton, Arkansas, United States in 1880.
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- Jensa Cantes in household of Joseph Highfill, "United States Census, 1880"
- Virginia F Kearley in household of Henry L Kearby, "United States Census, 1850"
- Virginia F Kirby in household of Henry L Kirby, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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