Brief Life History of Amos D
Amos D McKinney was born in April 1861, in Kentucky, United States. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Fulmer. He lived in White River Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1930.
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- Amos D Mckinney, "United States Census, 1930"
- A D Mc Kinney in entry for Wm H Mc Kinney and Pearl Owens, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Amos D McKinney, "United States Census, 1920"
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1862 · Battle of Perryville
On October 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville took place between the Army of Ohio and the Army of Mississippi. It was the bloodiest battle on Kentucky soil. The Union lost around four thousand people and the Confederates lost around three thousand people. This was about one fifth of those that fought.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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