When Stonewall Jackson Pritchett was born on 8 February 1862, in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States, his father, William Dekalb Pritchett, was 37 and his mother, Barbara Ellen Fulcher, was 33. He lived in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 7 October 1936, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
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.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhisiart ‘son ofRichard’. Compare Pritchard .
English (Midlands): from a diminutive of Middle English prik(e), prich ‘point’, ‘prick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of any of various pointed instruments, or a nickname for a tall, thin man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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