Solomon Lingerfelt

Brief Life History of Solomon

When Solomon Lingerfelt was born in 1818, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Lingerfelt, was 32 and his mother, Margaret Rebecca Slagle, was 19. He had at least 8 sons and 3 daughters with Mary Luvita HAMBRIGHT Fry. He lived in Polk, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He died on 1 September 1888, in Bradley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

Solomon Lingerfelt
1818–1888
Mary Luvita HAMBRIGHT Fry
1820–
James Monroe Lingerfelt
1841–1926
Sandy LINGERFELT
1842–
Margaret J. Lingerfelt
1844–
Martha Luticia Lingerfelt
1846–1932
Monroe Lingerfelt
1848–
William Henry Lingerfelt
1848–
Marion Whitson Lincomfelt
1850–1941
Andrew Jackson Lingerfelt
1852–1941
Joseph Curtis Lingerfelt
1852–1936
William Ernest LINGERFELT
1854–
John Franklin LINGERFELT
1856–1929

Sources (5)

  • Solomon Lingerft, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Solmon Lingerfelt in entry for James M. Lingerfelt, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
  • Solomon Lingerfelt, "United States Census, 1870"

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. 

1830 · Trail of Tears

In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Lingenfeld, a habitational name from a place so named in the Palatinate.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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