When Louvenia "Louisa" Carver was born on 16 November 1854, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Rueben Carver, was 41 and her mother, Martha Crabtree, was 31. She died on 22 September 1892, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Gladdice, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English: occupational name from Middle English kerver ‘one who cuts or carves (something)’, especially wood, hence ‘carpenter’ but within that trade more specifically and commonly ‘sculptor of wooden images’; perhaps occasionally ‘sculptor in stone’.
Americanized form of German Garber , Gerber , or Körber (see Koerber ).
History: John Carver (c. 1576–1621), one of the Mayflower Pilgrims, was the first governor of Plymouth Plantation. He was born in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire, England. Emigrating to the Netherlands in 1609, he joined the Pilgrims at Leyden.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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