Brief Life History of Paris Chipman
When Paris Chipman Trotter was born on 4 August 1817, in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Edward Oldham Trotter, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Manlove, was 39. He married Elizabeth Joy Flanders on 13 March 1856, in DeKalb, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in De Kalb, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Grand River Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died on 25 August 1879, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Grand River Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States.
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- Parris C Trotter, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Paris Chipman Trotter - Government record: birth-name: Paris Chipman Trotter
- Parris Trotter, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English (northern; also found in southern Scotland): perhaps from an unrecorded sense of Middle English trotter ‘one who rides a trotting horse’, a derivative of Middle English trotten ‘to ride at a trot, at a fast pace’. It may have been given to a messenger (see Trotman ). Alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of an unrecorded Middle English trotterer ‘dealer in trotting horses’, a derivative of Middle English trotter (Old French trotier) ‘horse that trots’.
German: occupational name for a vintner, from a derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’ (a loan translation from Latin calcatura). The word and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Swabia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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