Brief Life History of James Pinckney
When James Pinckney Prince was born on 7 January 1845, in Tennessee, United States, his father, William M. Prince, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Carpenter, was 28. He married Mary Clemenza Jenkins on 6 September 1875, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Bedford, Bedford, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Civil District 24, Bedford, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1891. He died on 21 April 1926, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Bomar Cemetery, Raus, Bedford, Tennessee, United States.
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- Pinkney Prince in household of William Prince, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Pinckney Prince - Published information: birth-name: James Pinkney Prince
- J P Prince, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English and French: nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (from Latin princeps).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Prinz ‘prince’, or its Czech, Slovak, Slovenian or some other Slavic cognate Princ, from princ ‘prince’.
Americanized form of Slovenian Primc: status name for one who lives in the house of his father-in-law, from a derivative of primiti ‘to accept, to take over’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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