When Estus Wallace Seward was born on 3 March 1874, in Fisherville, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, his father, Edward Cress Seward, was 35 and his mother, Franciana Fannie Doon COBURN, was 25. He married Docia Etta Ray on 11 October 1908, in Panola, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Fayette, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Shelby, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 7 June 1935, in Eads, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Seward Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: from the Middle English personal name Seward (Old English Sǣweard, from sǣ ‘sea’ + weard ‘guard’).
English: from the Middle English personal name Siward, Seward (Old English Sigeweard, from sige ‘victory’ + weard ‘guard’, or the equivalent Old Norse Sigwarth).
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Suaird, Ó Suairt, usually Anglicized as Sword .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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