Brief Life History of Alphonso Tilton
When Alphonso Tilton Warwick was born on 20 January 1872, in Tennessee, United States, his father, William K Warwick, was 28 and his mother, Phereby Gibbs, was 27. He married Mary Alva Wallace on 17 September 1892, in Union, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 5, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Corryton, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1957. He died on 15 April 1957, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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- Lilton Warnick, "United States Census, 1900"
- A T Warwick, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Alfonzo Tilton Warwick, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Warwick, the county seat of Warwickshire, or from the county itself. The placename derives from Old English wering, wæring ‘dam’ (a derivative of wer, wær ‘weir’) + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farmstead’ (dative plural wīcum).
habitational name from a much smaller place of the same name in Cumbria. This placename probably derives from Old English waroth ‘bank, shore’ + wīc.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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