When Terrecia I Chappell was born about 1856, in Georgia, United States, her father, William Penn Chappell, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Brown, was 27. She lived in Coweta, Georgia, United States in 1860 and District 691, Coweta, Georgia, United States in 1880.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood, cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel, sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of Saint Martin was preserved as a relic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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