When John William Belcher was born on 4 September 1855, in Butler, Kentucky, United States, his father, William H Belcher, was 27 and his mother, Rachael "Ronda" Jane Epperson, was 22. He married Magdaline Powell on 15 July 1890, in Logan, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Magisterial District 4, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 21 September 1928, in Butler, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English (of Norman origin):
from Old French bel ch(i)ere or beu ch(i)ere (Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + ch(i)ere ‘face, countenance’), which had various senses, including ‘fair face or looks, fine manners, good company, good cheer, food and drink, hospitality’. Although ch(i)ere originally meant ‘face’, the word later came to mean also ‘demeanor, disposition’ (hence English cheer), and the nickname may thus also have denoted a person of pleasant, cheerful disposition.
from Old French bel, beu + sire ‘fair sir’, a term of address. From at least the 15th century this name was probably confused with the name above, owing to the pronunciation of Middle English beu sire and bel sire as ‘bewcher’ and ‘belsher’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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