Brief Life History of Ernest Barney
When Ernest Barney Simpson was born on 5 December 1881, in Georgia, United States, his father, William Russel Simpson, was 32 and his mother, Lucy Virginia York, was 25. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Minnie Manson Vowell. He lived in Fish Creek, Polk, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 30 July 1943, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Forrest Cemetery, Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States.
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- Earnest B Simpson in household of Wm R Simpson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Earnest Barney Simpson, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
- Ernest B Simpson, "Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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