Brief Life History of Amaretta
When Amaretta Davis was born on 6 May 1850, in Doddridge, Virginia, United States, her father, William B Davis, was 42 and her mother, Martha Hughes, was 41. She married James Thomas Maxwell on 15 February 1866, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Grant District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1870. She died on 14 November 1872, in West Virginia, United States, at the age of 22.
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- Amaretta Maxwell in household of James T Maxwell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Ammaretta ?abis, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
- Amaretta in entry for Arrore M. Maxwell, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1862 · The Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg involved 200,000 troops with General Ambrose Burnside of the army of the Potomac against General Lee’s Army of the North.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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