Louvenia "Louisa" Carver

Brief Life History of Louvenia "Louisa"

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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Family Time Line

Joseph Rueben Carver
1813–1877
Martha Crabtree
1823–1904
James Milton Carver
1843–1920
Naomi Carver
1846–
Samuel Sampson Carver
1847–1938
Elvira Gore Carver
1849–1893
Rachel Elizabeth Carver
1851–1871
Louvenia "Louisa" Carver
1854–1892
Candace Carrie Carver
1858–1894

Sources (3)

  • Louisa Carver in household of Joseph Carver, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Louvenia Carver Huffines, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Louisa G Carver

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.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

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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