Brief Life History of William Alfonso
When William Alfonso Cable was born on 3 March 1880, in Proctor, Swain, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Baker Cable, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Jones, was 23. He married Lucinda Jane Sparks on 4 February 1907, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Blount, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Civil District 1, Blount, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 20 May 1963, in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Blount, Tennessee, United States.
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- Fonze Cable, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Alfonso Cable, "North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964"
- Fondas Cable, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English: probably from the personal name Kabell', which may be a survival of Anglo-Saxon Ceadbeald, a compound of an originally Brittonic element cad ‘battle’ + Old English beald ‘brave, bold’.
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rope, especially the type of stout rope used in maritime applications, from Middle English cable ‘cable’ (from Late Latin capulum ‘halter’, a word of Arabic origin, but associated by folk etymology with Latin capere ‘to seize’).
English: metonymic occupational name for a horseman, from Middle English cabal ‘horse’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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