Brief Life History of Levi
When Levi Short Sr. was born on 17 October 1816, in Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel A. Short, was 32 and his mother, Frances Tewell, was 31. He married Elvira Tewell on 24 October 1841, in Clermont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lancaster Township, Jefferson, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Carrollton, Carroll, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 April 1887, in New Palestine, Sugar Creek Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in New Palestine Cemetery, New Palestine, Sugar Creek Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States.
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- Levi Short, "United States Census, 1870"
- Levi Short, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Levi Short, "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920"
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1817
Historical Boundaries 1817: Jefferson, Indiana, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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