Brief Life History of Lewis Lee
When Lewis Lee Owenby was born on 23 December 1872, in English Creek, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Owenby, was 32 and his mother, Mary Polly Rose, was 36. He married Amelia Ann Wilson on 12 November 1893, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wilsonville, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Civil District 4, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 28 May 1962, in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
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- Luis L Ownesby, "United States Census, 1920"
- Lewis Awnby, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Lewis L. Owenby, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1973"
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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.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one or more of the places in Lincolnshire named Aunby, Aunsby, or Owmby (two places), all of which have medieval spellings such as Oune(s)by. They are named with the Old Norse personal name Authun or Aun(n) + býr ‘farmstead, settlement’. This surname has always been rare in Britain.
History: The earliest known bearer of the name is Philip de Aunesby, who was taxed in 1332 in Sapperton, 3 miles from Aunsby in Lincolnshire. A Thomas Owenby is recorded in 1391 in Bonnington (Nottinghamshire); his form of the name is also found in the 16th- and 17th-century Leicestershire.
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