When Emma Elvira Overstreet was born about 1861, in Missouri, United States, her father, Frederick Wilson Overstreet, was 38 and her mother, Mary Bookout, was 48. She married Franklin Evans Porter on 1 February 1883, in Lewis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in La Belle, Lewis, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 24 June 1884, in Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in LaBelle Cemetery, La Belle Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Probably an altered form of Flemish Overstraete: topographic name for someone who lived ‘on the other side of the street’, or a habitational name from a place so named. This surname was brought to North America from England.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Oberstrass: topographic name from a field so named, in particular one near Wermelskirchen in Rhineland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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