Brief Life History of James Lafayette
When James Lafayette Hitson was born on 4 January 1854, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Calvin Hitson, was 33 and his mother, Cynthia Elizabeth Dalton, was 18. He married Mary Jemina Dollarhide on 6 April 1876, in Hickory, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Green Township, Hickory, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Grand Pass, Saline, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 November 1929, in Malta Bend, Saline, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Malta Bend Cemetery, Grand Pass Township, Saline, Missouri, United States.
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- James Hitson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Missouri, Birth Records, 1847-1910
- James L Hitson, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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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.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: perhaps a metathesized form of Histon, a habitational name from Histon in Cambridgeshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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