Brief Life History of Kathryn Jackson
When Kathryn Jackson Murray was born on 17 November 1863, in Tennessee, United States, her father, James Cannon Murray, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Manning, was 34. She married Allen McMahan Stokely on 25 April 1881, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Civil District 7, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 12 October 1950, in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Kate M Stokely, "United States Census, 1920"
- Katie J Murray, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Kate Murray Stokely, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · Sultana Tragedy
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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