Diana Epps

Brief Life History of Diana

Diana Epps was born on 29 April 1846, in Tennessee, United States. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Squire McAllister Briggs. She lived in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 9, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 July 1921, at the age of 75, and was buried in Sulphur Springs, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Squire McAllister Briggs
1844–1930
Diana Epps
1846–1921
Mollie Briggs
1865–
Henry L. Briggs
1871–
Thomas Jefferson Ulysses Briggs
1872–1969
Martha Briggs
1874–
Vina Briggs
1875–1918
George Washington Briggs
1880–1964

Sources (7)

  • Dianah Briggs in household of Square Briggs, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Diana Epps Briggs, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Dina Epps in entry for Nina Lee Clark, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English (h)apse, (h)aspe ‘aspen tree, white poplar’ (Old English æpse, æspe). Generally, this was a topographic name for someone who lived by an aspen tree or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example Apps in Surrey, Apse Manor on the Isle of Wight, or The Asps in Warwickshire.

English: perhaps from the Middle English personal name Eppe, a possible survival of Old English Eoppa, or its female counterpart Eoppe (Latinized in post-Conquest records as Eppa), probably from a stem eorp- ‘red’. Alternatively, Eppe may derive from Old Norse Øpi, perhaps from the stem øp- found in the verb øpa ‘to cry out, shriek’.

American shortened form of Van Epps , a surname of Dutch origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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