Brief Life History of William Sherman
When William Sherman Tidwell was born on 1 July 1877, in Bear Creek, Marion, Alabama, United States, his father, Simon Meter Tidwell, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Ramsey, was 22. He married Lela Woodson Howard Mullins on 22 April 1906, in Marion, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Goddard, Marion, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Election Precinct 8 Bear Creek, Marion, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 February 1975, in Alabama, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Bear Creek, Marion, Alabama, United States.
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- William S Tidwell, "United States 1950 Census"
- Sherman Tidwell, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- William Sherman Tidwell, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Tideswell, a habitational name from Tideswell in Derbyshire, so named from the Old English personal name Tīdi + Old English wella ‘spring’. This form of the surname is rare in Britain and Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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