Brief Life History of John
When John Gossett was born about 1855, in South Carolina, United States, his father, James Gossett, was 56 and his mother, Delilah Wright, was 41. He lived in Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1860.
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- John Gossit, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Gossett - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: John Gossett
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1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex and Surrey; at least in part of French Huguenot origin): variant of Gosset .
Altered form of French, Walloon, and Channel Islands (Jersey; of French Huguenot origin) Gosset , reflecting the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.
History: The majority of the American bearers of the surname Gossett are descendants of Jean Gosset, a Huguenot from Normandy, who fled to the isle of Jersey in 1685. The surname was brought to North America in the middle of the 18th century from Jersey by John and Peter Gosset(t), grandsons of Jean Gosset.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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