Brief Life History of Sam Houston
When Sam Houston Abernathy was born on 6 October 1887, in Lovelady, Houston County, Texas, United States, his father, Ben Houston Abernathy, was 25 and his mother, Willie Ann Kyle, was 13. He married Evelyn Carroll on 10 November 1912, in Houston County, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Polk, Texas, United States in 1935 and Camden, Polk, Texas, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 29 January 1961, in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States.
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- Houston Abernathy, "United States Census, 1940"
- S. H. Abernathy, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Sam H Abernathy, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1898
Historical Boundaries: 1898: Polk, Texas, United States
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern Perthshire. The placename is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the river Nethy’.
History: This was the name of a cadet branch of MacDuff earls of Fife and one of the surnames of the Scots who settled in northern Ireland during the ‘plantation’ in the 17th century, and it was brought to the US as the name of a Southern plantation owner (in a different sense of the word ‘plantation’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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