Brief Life History of Samuel Leander
When Samuel Leander Davidson was born on 19 April 1812, his father, Hugh Davidson, was 44 and his mother, Jane Vance, was 34. He married Mary Coleman Moseley about 1836, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Bedford, Bedford, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and District 13, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 31 December 1870, in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States.
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- Samuel Davidson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Samuel L Davidson, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Samuel Leander Davidson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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