Brief Life History of Frances D'Hart
When Frances D'Hart Maxwell was born on 5 November 1852, in Henderson, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Wesley Maxwell, was 39 and her mother, Winnie Hendrix, was 30. She married Thomas C. Evans about 1872, in Henderson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Decatur, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 12, Decatur, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 February 1938, in Como, Henry, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Maxwell, Franklin, Tennessee, United States.
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- Francis D. Evans, "United States Census, 1880"
- Frances D. Evans, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
- Tank Maxwell in entry for Claude Evans, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Kelso, near Melrose in Roxburghshire, the name of a salmon pool on the Tweed near Kelso Bridge. The placename is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack's spring or stream’ (Old English well(a)).
Irish: adopted for Ó Meisceall, see Miskell . This surname is common in Ulster.
Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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