Brief Life History of Thomas J
When Thomas J James III was born on 11 March 1859, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States, his father, Thomas R James II, was 29 and his mother, Lucretia Jane Ross "Crecie" Graham, was 26. He married Katherine C Boling on 25 December 1876, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 16, Jefferson, Alabama, United States for about 30 years. He died on 11 November 1935, in Morris, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Gardendale, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.
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- Thomas James in household of Thomas R James, "United States Census, 1860"
- Thomas James, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Thomis J. James, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872
Historical Boundaries 1872: Jefferson, Alabama, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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