Brief Life History of James Barney
When James Barney Crosby was born on 29 September 1865, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, his father, James D. Crosby, was 32 and his mother, Harriett Hattie Avant, was 20. He married Lovie Moore in 1891, in Colleton, Colleton, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Fraser Township, Colleton, South Carolina, United States in 1920 and Heyward Township, Colleton, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 27 May 1940, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Walterboro, Colleton, South Carolina, United States.
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- Barney Crosby, "United States Census, 1920"
- J Barney or J B Crosby, "South Carolina, County Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951"
- James B. Crosby, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1871 · KKK Supression
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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