Brief Life History of Henry Cader
When Henry Cader Measels was born on 5 September 1848, in Van Buren, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Richard Mizell Sr., was 25 and his mother, Jane Emeline Walker, was 24. He married Margaret Welch about 1868, in Van Buren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Civil District 2, Van Buren, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 3, Van Buren, Tennessee, United States in 1920. He died on 15 October 1932, in Spencer, Van Buren, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Spencer, Van Buren, Tennessee, United States.
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Sources (13)
- H C Measles, "United States Census, 1870"
- H.C. Measels, "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955"
- H.C. Measles in entry for Thula Florence Trogden, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Moshe, Asher, Zalmen, Zev, Bernat, Chaim, Hirsch, Hirsh, Mendl, Ruchel, Aryeh.
Jewish: patronymic from Meisel .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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