Brief Life History of William Harvey
When William Harvey Law was born on 7 May 1877, in Tennessee, United States, his father, James Houston Law, was 28 and his mother, Martha Clemens, was 26. He married Dice Stratton on 18 October 1898, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in District 14, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 14, Blount, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 December 1943, in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Laws Chapel Cemetery, Blount, Tennessee, United States.
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- William H Law, "United States Census, 1910"
- William Harvey Law, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- William Harvey Law, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: from a Middle English personal name Law(e), a short form of Lawrence .
Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived near a hill, northern Middle English law (from Old English hlāw, which generally became low in the south and law in the north). Compare Lowe and Lew .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 羅, based on its Cantonese pronunciation, see Luo 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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