Almira Josie Click

Brief Life History of Almira Josie

When Almira Josie Click was born in June 1860, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Click, was 29 and her mother, Lucretia Taylor, was 21. She married Thomas P Harper on 12 August 1877, in Obion, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Benton, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Obion, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died on 10 February 1923, in Troy, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ebenezer Cemetery, Troy, Obion, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas P Harper
1847–1891
Almira Josie Click
1860–1923
Marriage: 12 August 1877
Joseph Alexander Harper
1878–1956
Andrew B Harper
1880–
Allie V Harper
1882–1972
Gabriella Harper
1886–
Walter J Harper
1887–1947
Mollie Bell Harper
1890–1964

Sources (14)

  • Almyra J Harper, "United States Census, 1900"
  • A J Click, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Sallie Harper, "Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966"

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

Americanized form of German Klick or Klück (see Kluck ) or Glück (see Gluck ).

English (Gloucestershire): apparently a habitational name connected with a piece of land in the parish of Ermington near Plymouth in Devon, early recorded as Clekeland(e), and still known as Clickland. The placename may be from Old English cleaca ‘stepping stone, boundary stone’ (of Celtic origin) + land ‘territory’.

Americanized form of Polish and possibly also of Czech and Slovak Klik (see Klick ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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