Brief Life History of Zachariah Taylor
When Zachariah Taylor Needham was born on 22 February 1849, in Independence, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, his father, John Needham, was 50 and his mother, Polly Day, was 40. He married Katherine I Rottman on 6 January 1876, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Independence Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1860. He died on 6 February 1923, in Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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- Zachariah T Needham in household of John Needham, "United States Census, 1860"
- Taylor Needham, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Zachary Taylor Needham, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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
English: habitational name from any of various places so named, such as High Needham in Hartington (Derbyshire), Needham in Elm (Cambridgeshire), Needham (Norfolk), Needham in Yaxley, Needham Street in Gazeley or Needham Market (all in Suffolk). These places are named with Old English nēd ‘need, hardship’ + hām ‘homestead’, denoting a place that provided a poor living.
Irish (County Mayo): Anglicized form of Ó Niadh, see Nee .
History: English explorer James Needham carried the name to the southern Carolina settlement, arriving from Barbados in 1670 as a young man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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