Brief Life History of Stephen W.
When Stephen W. Knox was born on 24 August 1846, in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Eli Knox, was 45 and his mother, Harriet Carpenter, was 38. He married Lucelia Amelia Thayer on 11 September 1866, in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Chicopee Falls, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1888 and Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1888. He died on 9 November 1888, in Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- W Stephen Knox, "United States Census, 1880"
- Knox, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Stephen W. Knox, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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