Brief Life History of Edward Webb
When Edward Webb Fraser II was born on 16 August 1868, in Colleton, South Carolina, United States, his father, Capt. Edward Webb Fraser, was 29 and his mother, Esther Catherine Anderson, was 29. He married Susan Gordon on 27 January 1914, in Colleton, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Verdier Township, Colleton, South Carolina, United States for about 50 years. He died on 20 August 1947, in Walterboro, Colleton, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Walterboro, Colleton, South Carolina, United States.
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- Edward W Fraser in household of Edmond W Fraser, "United States Census, 1910"
- E.w. Fraser, "South Carolina, County Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951"
- Eward Webb Fraser, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1871 · KKK Supression
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Scottish: apparently a nickname from Anglo-Norman French fraser(e), fresere ‘strawberry plant’. Fresel and Frisel, from Anglo-Norman French fresel ‘strawberry’, are early variants of the Fraser surname, the modern Gaelicized form of which is Friseal. See Frizzell . The crest on the Scottish family's coat of arms takes the form of a strawberry plant, but its antiquity is unknown. Claims of a habitational derivation, in particular from a place called la Frézelière in Anjou (France), are attractive but they lack verifiable evidence.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: There are two clans Fraser in Scotland, with common ancestry going back to Simon Fraser of Keith in East Lothian, who lived in the 12th century. One of these clans has its seat at Philorth Castle (subsequently re-named Cairnbulg) on the northeast coast of Scotland. Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th laird of Philorth (c. 1536–1623) converted the fishing village of Faithlie into the burgh of Fraserburgh in the 1590s. The other clan is Fraser of Lovat, associated mainly with the city of Inverness are. They are descended from Simon Fraser, a younger son, who lived in the early 14th century. In Gaelic, the head of Clan Fraser of Lovat is known as Mac Shimi ‘son of Simon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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